Time to get bloggin’
Hello World and welcome to our first official post. With this space I hope to create an open source and forum on all things visual. While a good chunk will be devoted to my 3 main businesses–wedding photography, visual reportage workshops and teaching–I do want to have a place for my observations on Life in general and some of the wonderful and talented people I work with to be able to reach out and communicate as well.
Here is a quick vid capture with my Canon 5D Mark II during Ryan and Kristen’s wedding last month:
Ryan and Kristen – Heel Click! from Glen Cooper on Vimeo.
My first post was inspired by a videographer/documentary producer I worked with on a wedding last month. I was using my 5D Mark II, shooting some video (much like the snippet I posted above from another wedding), and she was watching me with great interest. We started talking about video, photography and the ever merging marriage of the two mediums when she said, “Soon it will all be called “digtal media” and photographers and videographers will both be competing for the same clients. First off I thought–most videographers can’t shoot stills (at least not the way a still photographer does) and second a still photographer using a DSLR shooting video can’t shoot video (at least not the way a video guy or gal can).
While I think there will be business for both I do believe still photographers willing to learn video will have the advantage. Will we (still guys/gals) be able to do both symultaneously (no, at least not very well) but for me (Decisive Moment Photojournalists) since I always use a second photographer like many wedding photographers do now-a-days; I am starting to see this second camera person shooting documentary video instead of stills. Yes a digital media company is what we will eventually become–it is just up to us to continue to impart our style on this new media.
Just some other things:
Check out David Bergman’s incredible shot of the inauguration last month. It is over 14,000 mega pixels but the resolution is amazing. Click here to see it. I found my friend and Boston Herald photographer, Angela Rowlings on the very top of the photographers area. You can read all the detials on David’s blog: www.davidbergman.net/blog.