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Photos and excellence

John K Jordan

Very nice photo tip (and nice turning too.)

Have you ever done a John Lucas video on lighting and photographing woodturnings? It seems like that would be so helpful to many people, even non-woodturners. It is a joy to look at a good photo of a great piece.

Your experience from a career in photography really shows. I've picked up plenty of tips from you over time but I know I could certainly use more!

Things like what you did to get this photo, tips for making and using a photo diffusing cube, lights on stands with diffusers, highlights, shadows, backdrops, photographing work on the lathe, advice on depth-of-field, color temperature, importance of tripod, how to focus, how to work with the inexpensive cameras - see, I have lots of ideas to take up your spare time! :-)

JKJ

Re: Photos and excellence

John C Lucas

Haven't done one yet. I be e to get another it to program and he e to learn to do keep with my .Nikon and there isn't much info at all I the book

Re: Photos and excellence

John K Jordan

Here's a deal for you - I'll drive over one day with my Canon 70D some day and play videographer, shoot and edit. (I used to do that as part of my job at the Lab) All you have to do is write the script, get everything ready, wear a clean shirt, and do all the work!

JKJ

And who will do the editing? That's ......

JamieDonaldson

... the hardest and most time consuming part!

Re: And who will do the editing? That's ......

John C Lucas

I am horrible at editing. I bought the book on iMovie but the lingo they use is nothing like still photographers use so it's hard to look things up because you don't even know what they call what you want to do. Being near a University and a technical school you would think you could find a class. Nope. Go online to look. Dean age kids are the only videos and they go to fast and don't know how to teach.

I'll do it

John K Jordan

Time consuming, yes, but I always enjoyed it. A friend and I spent over 300 to produce one 30 minute video for a missionary friend - an that was AFTER a week of shooting interviews and subject matter on location in Mexico, recorded music, etc.

I did a lot of editing with my own technical animations and videos for work. For the longer work videos (up to 1/2 hour) two of us worked together in a professional suite. For shorter things and personal and church work I had my own editing suite in my basement "dungeon" where also I did all the graphics work. This editor was hardware based so transitions and things were very fast:

I still have the system with the editor but one day the computer quit booting and I never bothered to try to fix it. I would probably have to get some new software to do any editing now. I have a license for Premiere - maybe that would work or I could get something else. Computers are a lot faster these days, and a professional edit is almost all cuts anyway. My oldest son is a videographer/editor so I could ask him what's good these days.

I suspect the audio is the tricky part of shooting a shop video. I think I still have remote mics somewhere which might help.

JKJ

Re: I'll do it

john lucas

Well I'm not trying to do anything professional. Just educational for turners. I have a good remote mike and once I learn to use my Nikon rather than my ancient video camera I should be good to go as far as making the video. It's the editing and sizing to fit on youtube that drives me nuts. I'll probably work on it after January. Right now I have way to many things to do. 3 demos, a symposium and a 115 year old clock to repair.

Re: And who will do the editing? That's ......

Lyle Jamieson

I have been shooting (Easy part) and editing my YouTube videos for two years now. I found it very difficult and I am just beginning to get comfortable with it now. It has been a long and frustrating journey for me. But I started way below most peoples skill level with computer stuff.