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Just came across this now on PoTN.....and i am lost for words.

"We had an awesome chance to shoot with StillMotion at a wedding last week. Angela and I had 3 5D MKIIs on us taking stills and StillMotion had 4 5DMKIIs on them (and 20 batteries!) taking all the video. It was just awesome to see how powerful this camera truly is."

Blog - http://www.wayneyuan.com/2009/06/swan-club-wedding-photos-carol.html

HD video - http://vimeo.com/5062435?hd=1

I am particularly stunned by the video, and is this really where wedding photography is heading, if it is then I have a WHOLE new set of skill to learn !?
 
I could do that on my phone...........not
 
The video is seriously impressive!
 
Wooooooooah!

Thats a seriously impressive bit of movie making, I wonder how many CF cards that little lot took :eek:
 
Fantastic standard of work. It really is breathtaking. The video is amazing, but have you looked at his still work? b****r me. Possibly the best wedding toggery I've ever seen. I'm sitting here feeling decidedly quiet.
 
Steven001 said:
Those pictures are breathtaking, and the video quality is absolutely brilliant! I can't figure out why they would need 7 cameras though, how many photographers were they?
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Very hard I've found to use one camera for both stills and video, stuff you need to take photos of is invariably what you need to take video of so for something that good quality, 7 people doesn't surprise me too much.

Video SLRs really are pretty amazing little things.
 
Fantastic - brought a tear to my eye watching that :clap:
 
Badger UK said:
Fantastic standard of work. It really is breathtaking. Possibly the best wedding toggery I've ever seen. I'm sitting here feeling decidedly quiet.
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I have now seen that video about 5 times and each time i am more impressed than the last. In fact, each viewing i find something more impressive about it.

1 - They had a steadicam rig or somehow attached the 5Dii on a Giro? And some sort of rig that lifts the 5Dii up above the head.
2 - The control of DOF, must be manual as some of it was intentional as it zooms back or forth....how did they do that on the screen on the 5Dii and know it was spot on?
3 - Just brilliant editing, that alone would take months if not years to learn
 
Raymond,

I'm with you, its a heck of a lot to take in. Aim for the sky though mate :) No one is incapable of achieving anything, and the minute you start working towards a goal such as the quality shown here, the quicker you will get to said goal. Can't be easy but I bet with a portfolio which includes work at the level posted here, clients would be falling over each other to get to you.

Gary.
 
Wow, that was great!

Steven001 said:
Those pictures are breathtaking, and the video quality is absolutely brilliant! I can't figure out why they would need 7 cameras though, how many photographers were they?
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I think these photographers needed so many cameras because they didn't have time to change lenses on their bodies. Simply assign a lens to a body, and grab whichever camera that fits the job. I can imagine them carrying 3 or 4 bodies each around them.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I am particularly stunned by the video, and is this really where wedding photography is heading, if it is then I have a WHOLE new set of skill to learn !?
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That video is amazing, but I don't think that is where wedding photography is heading at all. Videography is nothing new, its just opening up a whole new world to the videographers having the amazing array of lenses that photographers have available for what is in video terms peanuts.

The guys taking the video weren't the ones taking the photos. There is no way you can do both to the same high degree.

Th biggest challenge will be explaining to brides that just because our cameras can record video that it doesn't mean we can do both our job and that of the videographer.
 
Foggy said:
That video is amazing, but I don't think that is where wedding photography is heading at all. Videography is nothing new, its just opening up a whole new world to the videographers having the amazing array of lenses that photographers have available for what is in video terms peanuts.

The guys taking the video weren't the ones taking the photos. There is no way you can do both to the same high degree.

Th biggest challenge will be explaining to brides that just because our cameras can record video that it doesn't mean we can do both our job and that of the videographer.
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I agree. I was saying to Mondo in IRC, it would perhaps be an idea to find your video guy equivalent, and just cost him into one of your super high end packages. There is a company in EDI who do the whole shooting match, photos, videos, I think they have 2 photographers and 2 cameramen, and charge in the region of £6,000.

Gary.
 
EdinburghGary said:
I agree. I was saying to Mondo in IRC, it would perhaps be an idea to find your video guy equivalent, and just cost him into one of your super high end packages. There is a company in EDI who do the whole shooting match, photos, videos, I think they have 2 photographers and 2 cameramen, and charge in the region of £6,000.

Gary.
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Would have to, there is no way 1 person can pull that off on his own. He would have to sacrafice one or the other. Even if you are shooting videos with the 5Dii all the time and pull and shot now and again. You'll have a slight "gap" in the video (could be masked with clever editing I suppose), or you shoot the whole thing in HD and start pulling frames from it for photos but that's not the same.
 
It doesn't hurt that the couple look fabulous, have a superb venue and have accepted that the Production Company will basically run everything...
I think I saw maybe three or four 'spontaneous' images there -the remainder was all chreographed - and beautifully so...
If you're going to get images and video to this standard it has to be treated as a 'film' production, rather than a wedding...with each shot story-boarded and carefully set up...
Luckily the family had the vision to accept this...

How many couples here would allow the same degree of control be handed to the photography 'company'...?
 
I was a video editor at the BBC for 25 years and worked on some pretty top-end stuff (Planet Earth for starters)

That video is very impressive and when you ask yourself why, the answer is 'because it looks like a movie'.

That's down to a few things:

1 - The lighting. The natural light is perfect but clearly there's artificial lighting thrown in too. It's very well lit, because it doesn't look lit (If you get my drift)

2 - Steadicam. Those fluid moves leap out at you, because you've never seen them before in a wedding video.

3 - Composition. There's a real skill here. The photography is top notch and the depth of field is another reason why it screams 'movie'

4 - Post Production. This has without question been through some high end kit, or at least mid-range kit. It has been colour graded from start to finish so that everything matches, and there is some (very) subtle use of blurring and highlight glows to add to what is already there. (As an ex-pro, I actually don't think the basic edit is *that* good.)

5 - Sound dubbing. This has had a professional tracklay and mix. A very good choice of music and some well recorded stuff on the day.

6 - Multi cameras. There's not getting away from the fact that using 4 cameras gives you a vast amount of material to play with. I'd guess this 5 minutes is cut down from 20 hours of footage.

Overall it's quite superb. I just wouldn't want to pay the bill.
 
shows what can be done when cash is no object.
To become as proficient as that, I read, a lot of film experience,
There are many skills there that even an experienced wedding photographer simply does not have. It is more akin to studio production work.
 
That was amazing, but it did look more like an clip from a movie than a wedding video, not that that's in anyway bad, it's incredible, but I would imagine that would cost a fortune!
 
How very impressive
 
Like it has been said, a truly stunning piece of footage and one anyone would be proud of from their wedding day however there is clearly a hell of a lot of work into that short piece, and I would imagine the day was a little disjointed from the work the production company needed from the B&G. I wouldn't like to think how much that cost with the quality of kit and amount of personnel on board.
 
Thats not a bridge, it's a sign of things to come.......all brides grow horns after the sentencing ;)
 
Incredible piece of work but it seems more like a music video than a wedding video! Must cost a fortune!!
 
POAH said:
if he is that great why is there a bridge growing out the top of the brides head lol

http://www.wayneyuan.com/darkroom/blog/blogshow/4a3298c268c88/3003b5bb238516e0a6739dcca8a05ce5.jpg
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Envy (also called invidiousness) may be defined as an emotion that "occurs when a person lacks another’s (perceived) superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it."[1] It can also derive from a sense of low self-esteem that results from an upward social comparison threatening a person's self image: another person has something that the envier considers to be important to have. If the other person is perceived to be similar to the envier, the aroused envy will be particularly intense, because it signals to the envier that it just as well could have been he or she who had the desired object.

Is that you POAH,

lol :lol:

Ps stunning work :thumbs:
 
Amazing quality video but would you really want the 'production' hassle on your wedding day?
 
Arkady said:
It doesn't hurt that the couple look fabulous, have a superb venue and have accepted that the Production Company will basically run everything...
I think I saw maybe three or four 'spontaneous' images there -the remainder was all chreographed - and beautifully so...
If you're going to get images and video to this standard it has to be treated as a 'film' production, rather than a wedding...with each shot story-boarded and carefully set up...
Luckily the family had the vision to accept this...

How many couples here would allow the same degree of control be handed to the photography 'company'...?
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Totally agree mate.
It was beautiful, no denying it. But it was a production foremost, a wedding secondly.

Takes a lot of skill though. Careful awareness of cinematography.
 
his post processing is good and he captures the moment of the dancing well but thats pretty shocking if you are such a master.


Disco_Biscuit said:
Envy (also called invidiousness) may be defined as an emotion that "occurs when a person lacks another’s (perceived) superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it."[1] It can also derive from a sense of low self-esteem that results from an upward social comparison threatening a person's self image: another person has something that the envier considers to be important to have. If the other person is perceived to be similar to the envier, the aroused envy will be particularly intense, because it signals to the envier that it just as well could have been he or she who had the desired object.

Is that you POAH,

lol :lol:

Ps stunning work :thumbs:
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