Jeff Schaeffer will share “Getting Started in Video”

Cameras have been constantly improving their capabilities over the last several years.  In addition to providing new features that help us capture our images, the video capabilities in most DSLRs, mirrorless cameras and even cell phones also keep improving and expanding giving us new tools to work with.  While an image often tells a story, video enables us to tell even more of the story.  The videographer uses moving images and sound to guide the viewer through the story they want to tell.

While initially working with video can seem a bit intimidating, as photographers, we already have a great foundation of skills to expand on.  Many of the things we already do as photographers can easily be applied to video.  However, creating videos requires learning some new skills such as camera movement, the use of audio and video editing.

Jeff is relatively new to video and began working with it in 2021 when he challenged himself to start learning by creating a video during a one-week day camp and present it to parents on the fifth day to help them experience the week at camp.  While there are things that can be improved on with this video, it was a good opportunity to learn some basic shooting techniques, how to organize video clips, how to approach telling the story and how to do some basic video editing.  It also gave him a list of things to explore and skills to develop to continue on his videography journey in 2022.  Most importantly, the project challenged him to get started!  (note:  the video can be seen here )

Jeff will share how to utilize some of the skills we already have as photographers, how to leverage some of the capabilities of equipment we already own and introduce  a few new basic skills about videography to get us started on an exciting new journey of telling stories through video!