<elemar@comcast.net> wrote in message news:tYKdnbk1UuAtJTHdRVn-jA@giganews.com...

> Gene E. Bloch <hamburger@not_spam.invalid> wrote:

 

> : My most successful foot shot was at a wedding. It was at the outdoor

> : weddding of two folkdancers (I also am a folkdancer).

>

> : A favorite (Bulgarian line) dance started, and I forgot to shut off

> : the camera from what I was shooting.

>

> : So there are a couple of minutes of my feet doing Chetvorno Oro with

> : the music playing on the sound track.

>

> : The couple loved it, and I left it in the video :-)

>

> : I still chuckle every time I think about it.

>

> : Gino

 

> Years ago a friend did something similar, but carried it even further.

>

> When he was through with a scene he forgot to push the button to stop

> taping. After carrying the camera around for a while, he lifted it up to

> take another scene, and pushed the button which turned turned it off. And

> when he was through with that scene, he hit the button again, and so on.

>

> He ended up with a number of scenes of his feet and nothing else. I thought

> it was rather amusing. :-)

>

> 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