stills or video

[realspeed]

Strictly for myself I hasten to add I am heading more into taking videos than stills. nothing wrong in taking stills with the challengers involved and we all know what they are so no need to say

However getting more into video (which I have done for the past 9 years or so) seems to give me more satisfaction. Being able to capture movement and sound I think gives a better idea of the area. Filming animals shows movement stills can only show part of a movement for example. Portraits and the like yes stills are the best option

What do others think

 

[viewfromthenorth]

Horses for courses and all that. I take casual video on my phone to record bits and bats of family life but no more than that - just clips of no more than a minute or two.

But my preference for the most part is photography, possibly because I’m not - and never have been - a big consumer of the moving image. I rarely watch television or film.

Video captures everything, a photograph captures just one moment, and just one part of a scene. To do in video what I do with a camera would require a lot more time in recording, narration and post processing, and I have neither the time nor inclination to do that or go through the learning curve.

 

[Chriswoolgar]

For me, part of the challenge of still photography is overcoming the temporal shortcomings that the OP refers to, for example, getting dynamism into wildlife photography. I also remember from when I was studying photography, an article spoke about how video coverage of news events has an immediate impact, it is the still photography that people remember in the long term. I haven't done any serious video photography for a long time now although occasionally a wedding couple will ask me if I can do video as well. Apart from the difficulty of covering the same event with two different pieces of equipment, I have to explain that they are really different genres, with specific skill sets.

 

[SFTPhotography]

Cannot stand the new trend of videos - prefer stills. I am a photographer, not a videographer.

It's why I don't bother with the likes of Thomas Heaton et al. I don't want videos, I just want pictures. I rather like Justin Minns as I prefer a written blog with the pictures. I'd follow actively a lot more other landscapers if they moved away from videos and back to written articles with pictures.