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Gene E. Bloch <hamburger@not_spam.invalid> wrote:
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My most successful foot shot was at a wedding. It was at the outdoor
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weddding of two folkdancers (I also am a folkdancer).
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A favorite (Bulgarian line) dance started, and I forgot to shut off
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the camera from what I was shooting.
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So there are a couple of minutes of my feet doing Chetvorno Oro with
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the music playing on the sound track.
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The couple loved it, and I left it in the video :-)
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I still chuckle every time I think about it.
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Gino
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Years ago a friend did something similar, but carried it even further.
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When he was through with a scene he forgot to push the button to stop
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taping. After carrying the camera around for a while, he lifted it up to
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take another scene, and pushed the button which turned turned it off. And
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when he was through with that scene, he hit the button again, and so on.
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ended up with a number of scenes of his feet and nothing else. I thought
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was rather amusing. :-)
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Ray
OK, I
"fess up" - in shooting about 4-5 hours of raw material for a
wedding,
I sometimes (rarely, fortunately!) lose track of the "start/stop"
order
of things and have some "raise camera to position/framing, then
stop"
clip-sequences to deal with. I've learned that putting these
together
with a "hold" frame at the end of each, with a dissolve transition
between
each clip, can actually look good, and "intended"...;-)
Further
variation: softening the first part of the move, then adding a
still-camera
"shutter-click" as the still frame part starts, can do
wonders
- and even get praise...!;-)
--
David Ruether
d_ruether@hotmail.com
http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com