Getting Started: Shooting for the Holidays
Ah, the holiday season! The feasts and festivities, the laughter and love, the torture and torment.
That's right, torment...the sheer agony of sitting through typical holiday home videos: moving snapshots that have nothing to say and take five times too long to say it. Why are some holiday videos so boring? Because they're the same as last year and the year before and the year before that. Because they're stale.
So Camera Work this month is about making Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas videos that folks will love--because they're fresh ideas, topics, approaches and tech…
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