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The Art of Photography

Making Videos

The Art of Photography

Ted Forbes

Diy, Art, Arts, Visual Arts, Image, Technology, Photography, Tv & Film, Culture, Tutorials, Gadgets, Photographers

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2015

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today's question is about video for photographers. While the easy answer seems obvious - there's a different mindset to doing video and that's what we're going to discuss. Whether filming or editing it all comes down to your ability to tell a story and I'll give you a few tips on how to best get started making films. SPONSOR: This video is sponsored by Videoblocks and Audioblocks. For a free 7 day, unlimited trial please visit: http://vblocks.co/x/ArtOfPhotography072015

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? Welcome back to the art of photography. My name is Ted Forbes and this video today is sponsored by the awesome folks at video blocks and audio blocks.

0:07.6

And our question today comes from Nathan and Nathan writes,

0:11.0

hi Ted, I've been working as a photographer for a year now full time.

0:14.8

I am looking for services to expand my business and I'm thinking of offering video to my clients.

0:19.8

Is this a viable idea and how would I go about getting started.

0:23.1

Thanks, Nathan.

0:25.1

Nathan, excellent question.

0:27.0

And I will do my best to answer it.

0:28.6

So first of all, congratulations on your success so far,

0:32.1

working for yourself as a photographer.

0:34.0

And do I think video is a service that you can provide to expand your business?

0:37.2

Absolutely, and there are a lot of photographers doing that these days.

0:41.0

And that's where I want to talk about the second part and you know it's a natural

0:43.8

progression for a photographer to want to go into doing video work.

0:48.1

Most cameras now, if you're shooting digital cameras, they are capable of at least HD video and some of these cameras now have 4K on

0:55.1

them so it does seem like a natural progression to move to video from there

0:58.8

however you probably have noticed that what you see coming out of photographers a lot of times is

1:04.3

essentially music videos of B-roll either synced or drifting over music and that's kind

1:11.3

of the standard of what

1:12.6

photographers start to do when they get into the video

1:14.7

and they don't embrace video as a medium.

1:17.4

And you asked, how would you go about doing this?

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