Now I'm excited as we can actually blog now!!! Thanks to the help of my good friend and awesome photographer Laura Leppert of Leppert Photography. Thanks so much for your help Laura!
Right now our studio is jammed with Fall weddings to be edited so a daily blog probably just won't be happening here. But keep checking back for some great information on wedding & special event cinematography. The ins and outs of today's innovations in both cinematography and photography for today's couples. We will also be bring you trends from other wedding vendors and coordinators in the Greater Cincinnati area.
So let's get started with some helpful photography information for you.
Many brides and grooms have asked the question "Which is better; film photography or digital photography"? First of all, a lot has to do with the film camera that is being used to photograph the wedding and reception. A photography studio that uses 35mm film cameras is definately on the low end of fim cameras. I have been in the wedding industry for over twenty four years now and way back when I started shooting weddings the low end photographers used the 35mm cameras and any photographer worth their weight used a medium format camera.
Medium format has traditionally referred to a
film format in still
photography. Generally, the term applies to any film size in-between
35 mm and
large format (4"×5" or more)
sheet film and to the type of camera that uses the format. Due to the higher image resolution offered by the larger film size, the majority of medium-format users are professional photographers who often require fine image detail.
Simply put the larger the film the better the quality of the image that was photographed. After the film is shot it is sent to a lab to be developed. That process still exists; now here is the twist to the film claim that film is superior to digital. After the film is processed and the photographer now has the negatives the lab scans the negatives to create the prints. A scanned negative is now a "digital" file! And since the negative was scanned it is also a Second Generation in quality - meaning the negative scanned file has lost quality in being scanned. See the compairison of the two film types in the photo. Much larger surface on the medium format film.
Photo labs all now scan film negatives to make a file of the photograph to make prints from. There are definately labs that will print a photograph the old way of passing light through the negative onto the photographic paper but charge a fee of a minimum of $2.50 for each negative. So a photographers who shoots film and has 1500 images will pay a lab fee of $3750 to have the old process done. That eats up the photographer's fee extremely quickly!!
I asked my friend Dave Ziser of David A. Ziser Photography the shelf life of a digital wedding album. He said a good two hundred years! That should last your family for several generations for sure.
So don't be fooled by a photographer telling you that film cameras are far superior to digital cameras. Especially photographers who shoot with a 35mm film camera. Hope this helps you out.
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My sister Baby J (Jan) who works with me brought me in a page she had ripped out of "Modernbride Magazine" Dec & Jan 2008. It is an article the magazine covered on a videographer named Kristen* who owns a studio in San Francisco named Bliss* Video Productions. (
http://www.blissvideoproductions.com/).
I loved the article as the magazine itereviewed her as she won "Best of 25 National Video Studios Award" last year. They asked her some great questions I wil quote for you:
"What are the best questions to ask potential pros"?
Kristen - "It's a god idea to focus on the package and the process. You can start by asking "how many hours of coverage wil I receive"? What is the turnaround time for the video once it's been filmed"? (Great editing takes time, so a wait of six to eight months is not uncomon).
So please remember that editing fact from a pro like Kristen.
Next a top tip from Kristen - "A 35 - 55 minute video is ideal; longer than that is pushing it. Toasts can be edited down to a 30 second essence.
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My sister Baby J (Jan) who works here at Take-One as an editor brought me a page she had ripped out of the latest issue of "Modernbride" Magazine for the December - January 2008 issue.
The magazine has a section named "what's modern / planning secrets." On page 72 the magazine did an interview with Kristen* (no last name mentioned) who is the owner of Bliss* Video Productions in San Francisco. You can visit her site at
http://www.blissvideoproductions.com/. Before I quote you what was in the article you should know that Kristen*'s Bliss studio was voted in the top 25 National Video Studios in the United States by DV Event Magazine in 2007. DV Event Magazine stands for Digital Video Event Magazine and is an extremely well know trade publication for professionals in the Wedding & Special Event video production business. So now that you know that Kristen* is a somebody big (she produced Molly Shannons (actress, TV personality) wedding!!!
Here are the two things that she said that I want to relay to all of you bridal couples in reference to having you Wedding Day filmed. "Modernbride" posed the question "What are the best questions to ask potential (videographers) pros?" Kristen* answered "It's a good idea to focus on the package and the process. You can start by asking. "How many hours of coverage will I receive? What is the turnaround time for the video once it has been filmed? (Great editing takes time; so a wait of six to eight months is not uncommon)."
The first point here for you to remember is what Kristen* said about the length of the editing time - 6 to 8 months. She is absolutely correct on that one. Editing is one of the most time consuming jobs on the planet. I can compare it to making an oil painting on canvas. So when you hear a bride freaking out that her wedding was three or four months ago and still no video remember what the top pros say. Besides you are going to have the video for the rest of your lives and several generations to come. So let your studio take the time to do it right for you.
The second (and last) point that I want to convey to you from the article is the magazine asked Kristen* for some "Top Tips". The tip from her I want to convey is "Keep it concise. A 35 - 55 minute video is ideal; longer than that is pushing it. Toasts can be edited to their 30 second essence."
You can only put 120 minutes on a DVD. Brides and MOBs in the Greater Cincinnati area have asked me for years "How long is the wedding video going to be?" And if I did not tell them 1 hour - 5 minutes and 59 seconds in length they thought they were being ripped off in price. When I have always said I bet a ton of couples don't want a wedding video because they are way toooooooooooooooo long and boring!!! I was right. A television like edited version is so much more entertaining to the viewers. Believe me it is just as much work or more to edit a short form version. So definitely consider having your production edited in short form.
Oh by the way . . . every time I typed Kristen* you will notice the asterisk at the end of her name. That is the actual way she spells her name. Excellent marketing idea if you ask me.
Please go visit
http://www.blissvideoproductions.com/ and take a look at this ladies wonderful work.
By the way she starts her packages at a cool $7000 for her video format and a mere $7500 for 8mm film and a whopping $10000 for 16mm film. Somebody see a true value in Wedding Video.
You should too.
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For about four years now Take-One Studio has been shouting loud and proud " We are the Exclusive Home of Remotecams and Dreamcam!" Brides and Grooms just stare at us blank face and scratch their heads and say "What's are those?" And "What is so cool about that?"
Well now that we have this informational tool that's our blog we can finally show and explain exactly just what all of our excitement is about.
So that you can view our cameras I will break this blog into two parts with images of each of these cameras we use.
In this blog I will explain our "Remotecams." First of all these wonderful little cameras real names are "Pan & Tilt" cameras. But we thought that would really throw our prospective clients for a loop with a name like "Pan & Tilt". So the word remote gave everyone a general idea what they did. They were controlled from a remote location. Therefore no one would see the people controlling these cameras.
So now let me explain why ours are so special for weddings. From the photos above the white and black little round cameras are our actual "Pan & Tilt" cameras. If you made a fist that is all the bigger these cameras are. Extremely small for a video camera. We have the black and white to fit into any decor and really not be noticed at all. We have hidden them in floral arrangements, mounted them in chuppas and hidden them behind columns in a church. Another great and really important factor is that because they a small they don't show up in a wedding photographer's shots. We want your photos to be as perfect as possible. We have even broadcast live and entire reception mixing cameras mounted outside and inside to blend the entire affair together and presented it live on a giant screen. Very cool for sure. Since we can hide them so well we can have them hidden in the back of an alter shooting towards your guests and family in the congregation. Lots of interesting angles to choose from so no ceremony is ever boring to watch. We can fill up a screen with the most beautiful hand shots when you exchange rings, or tight facial shots for those once in a lifetime vows, to a quick shot of your Mother with tears rolling down her face as you say them to each other. These little guys shoot up, down, almost 360 degrees around and they zoom in and out and are totally quiet through all of this.
The four camera are connected together by about a 1/2" cable with video and audio lines in the cable. We never cross a center line across an aisle too. Only the side aisles. Your ceremony is also recorded with four professional recording microphones hidden around the ceremony site to capture not only your vows but your music, readers and your officiant. We will also plug directly into the ceremonies audio system if your facility allows us to do so.
We have used these cameras of course in doors and also outdoor weddings. And as I stated above we can cover your reception if you are going to have decent lighting at your event. Which we always recommend anyway.
Now there are some other video production studios around that recently purchased some remote cameras to try and follow in our lead. But these cameras are not "Pan & Tilt" cameras; the are really remote controlled tripods with full size video cameras mounted on them (see the photos above - these are on the far right). So ask to actually take a look at a studios cameras to make sure you are not receiving some full size cameras mounted on a tripod. We are bringing about $35000.oo worth of cameras and equipment into your ceremony location. And the results we obtain makes every penny of that so well worth the money.
Lastly on these cameras they are perfect for Jewish and Hindu ceremonies - well, we think they are perfect for any wedding! Oh . . . this all travels to for you destination wedding couples.
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Congratulation to Mark & Jennifer Garber of Mark Garber Photography (Springboro, Ohio) for being awarded "Best Wedding Album in the Nation" for three years in a row!!!!! WOW!!!
What can anyone say to that feat??? Except totally awesome!!! What a feat that is for sure!
CONGRATULATIONS!!
You can view some of Mark & Jennifer's work in our "En Vogue Wedding" section. Also you will be able to view a recent wedding in our "Cinematic Art" section under our "Featured" section of
Jeffery & Margo (coming soon).
Please be sure and visit their web site at
http://www.markgarber.com/Give them a call and make sure you mention that Take-One Studio sent you!
Photos above courtesy of Mark & Jennifer - enjoy!!
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