Megan Fox Cover & Video - Esquire Magazine

Andy

[imgl]http://img.skitch.com/20090509-861s6mjej6gnujiagcxd8rtg46.jpg[/imgl]So. Cover Girl shot with A Video Camera? It's true, read all about it. And the :lust video is here :lust

I wonder if this is the first time a cover is done with a video camera? Is it the beginning of a new time for us? Will we be shooting hi res high def video as photographers? I'm I'm a landscape shooter, can I just put my camera on a tripod during the magic hour, and set it, and then go for a hike? Can sports shooters 'get the shot' by putting up a phalanx of Video cameras in the right spots, and then culling 'the best' out from hours of video? Interesting subject. Discuss :ear

kdog

Andy wrote:

I'm a landscape shooter, can I just put my camera on a tripod during the magic hour, and set it, and then go for a hike?

Sure, go ahead, and let me know where you'll be hiking. I could use a new RedOne.

But seriously, you could do that today with your DSLR by using an interval timer. Or if you want a higher frame rate, shoot burst mode. Something like the Red is evolutionary, not revolutionary. We're all going to be there eventually when the costs and size of the gear go down, and PC processing speeds and storage go up. It's inevitable, but I don't see it really changing things that much.

anwmn1

I have to agree with Kdog here. I don't think it is revolutionary but rather evolutionary. Ever since the digital era began it was the great film vs. digital debate. Since digital is primarily chips and processors it was only a matter of time until it got to where it is today. Red is obviously at the forefront in digital technology at the moment but in another 5 years (or less) there will be something superior to what they have launched.

Sports photographers may indeed use an arsenal of HD Cameras one day- afterall it is probably not much more expensive than the setups they currently set up at pro events. It will be a matter or watching the videos to pick the perfect shot rather than thousands and thousands of images.

http://www.microsoft.com/prophoto/articles/finalfour.aspx




I think where Red is still the most successful is in the cinema area though.
Love this video-
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anwmn1

How about 4 months in Alaska with Red Cameras

http://www.kennanward.com/alaska/Site/_.html

:jawdrop

rwells

I think we as photographers will go where technology leads us.




We have some input to the tech development, but not that much. We embrace or adapt to the current "normal" technologies. If that's the way the tech is going, then that's what we will be using.

How many still shoot film?


YMMV

cabbey

Andy wrote:

Can sports shooters 'get the shot' by putting up a phalanx of Video cameras in the right spots, and then culling 'the best' out from hours of video? Interesting subject. Discuss

There's already folks doing that in at least two locations that I know of: rafters and roller coasters. The roller coaster systems at least in some parks have a trigger, so they only shoot video when there's a train going by... but it's still a park member, usually the kid manning the photo kiosk at the exit of the ride, that's sitting there stepping through the video picking frames to put up just as you're walking out. In both cases the low quality of the NTSC video is "acceptable" to most consumers in a small 4x6 inkjet or dyesub print cranked out right there at the kiosk.

saurora

Andy wrote:

Is it the beginning of a new time for us? Will we be shooting hi res high def video as photographers? I'm I'm a landscape shooter, can I just put my camera on a tripod during the magic hour, and set it, and then go for a hike? Can sports shooters 'get the shot' by putting up a phalanx of Video cameras in the right spots, and then culling 'the best' out from hours of video? Interesting subject. Discuss

Interesting subject indeed! I thought about this a couple of nights ago and was rather bummed at my own conclusions! I do think it is the beginning of a new time for photography and a natural evolution, though a disturbing one to me! Hi def video seems a natural for sports and fashion in particular, with wedding (think Fusion) not far behind these days. So the sports photographer 'gets the shot' and needs the really cool equipment because the competition is so fierce. But what is he/she going to do with that 'culled' shot? Advertising? Can't sell it to a newspaper because they're dinosaurs and magazines can't be too far behind. What's left of 'publications' will eventually be mostly on the internet. That raises the question of why a still image when you can show a video clip? I can't read the news on the net without being forced to look at video clips instead of still shots (drives me nuts!). People in their 30's come from a video upbringing. (My own kid was raised on MTV and I hit the drugstore everyday to buy or read Teen Beat magazines!) They aren't as easily entranced (as I am) looking at a 'still' image. Sad but true. I see it in my own 3 generational family. So professionally, I foresee changes ahead. Landscape photography could be a safer place to be right now but I wouldn't walk away and take a hike leaving all your gear for that grizzly to eat. The 'joy' to be found composing and capturing the light in 'still' images will hopefully be around for a while for many of us, but you have made me wonder what the future holds for some of the pros?