Ever since childhood i was very much interested in photography, according to me photography mean "capturing real time instances for life time ever". It all started when my aunt gifted me a Kodak film roll camera. Ever since i have handled devices with cutting edge technology, thus pulling deep making my most favorite Hobbie.
Recently in my CS branch we hosted a farewell party. I planned myself to capture this event in a bit professional way ( sorta experiment). I geared up with the resources i can afford at that time. Practically resources was too limited and for sure i can no way cope with the oncoming requirements. instead it was just make over. Any ways we managed to come up with two cameras (thanks for ujwal 2nd year for Panasonic hd camera). I knew this couldn't work out well as these two cameras are far apart in terms of specification and resolution. Sony seems to capture home video type low resolution amateur video while Panasonic had a way beyond resolution with clear picture with which you can watch HD videos on your home HD TV.
So in order to use resources well i planned up to use both of these in some what better way. I placed Panasonic HD camera to shoot main event on stage while to use sony handy-cam to capture behind the scene events, audian's etc, well now settled with those cameras. Now needed a tripod ie, a stand that is used to place cameras and shoot continuous shot. This tripod is not an ordinary one it ways back costing more then a digital camera it costs around 8 to 10k. Thanks to rashmi, She arranged bringing one on rent.
With 30k panasonic camera, 18k sony handycam, 8k sony cybershot, 8k tripod, thats make total of 64k equipments, with which i needed to accomplish the planned task.
Professionals use audio equipments such as wire less MIC or wired MIC sometimes which will be placed in various places to capture speaker as well as audian's voices over time which will be clubbed to get the finished form. But i wasn't able to afford one. So i did shooting without the aid of one. prepared to obtain video with much distortion and noice.
On Farewell Day:-
As planned before i was able to shoot event using those equipment and everything went right. Sony handy cam was given to one of the junior to shoot. He did decent side capturing, while panasonic HD camera was handled by me and i shot from beginning to end, though i found bit confused to handle at first, i managed to make over and cope with the equipment and did a finest shoot. At first we found an issue where we found difficulty in unfolding tripod, later some how unfolded after trial and errors. and when program started we found that the camera was crippling and was not tightly adjusted to tripod, This was bit challenging because we had to fix the problem while camera was rolling, this was bit tricky because camera used to shake and rotate while tighting the nut, this may lead to loosing the event and it will be a blow as there is no retake and i was in no way prepared to loose any of the event, by the expertise of ujwal this problem was fixed with minor distortion which was later negotiated in post ediiting. I also found difficulty in placing camera in front of stage, has i had no clear idea in what distance it needed to be placed, the problem was not with zoom has the camera was equipped with 26x zoom with which i can even shoot dust on a screen but the problem was with zoom out or a wide angle of the stage. If i place in front of the i couldn't cover wide angle shot, but has i dint had audio equipments i could capture voice of the speaker on stage with less noise from crowd has it is bit far from crowd but nearest to the speaker.but if i had went back there i could cover whole stage in wide angle shot but has it was in between crowds there was more possibility of voice recording would be lower of the speaker and filled with crowd noise (later in post editing i found out that crowd voice was too high and it was crossing the minimum threshold level which used to make buzz noise when play backed) there was also possibility of my voice being recorded (it happened many times) has i was behind the camera and much louder has i stand behind the camera very closer nearer to inbuilt mic system. All these factor would ruin the video and it may seems random shot, just an amateur video. editing would take lot of work to rectify these ( I will write about my efforts to rectify sound distortion in later pages) .
Camera placement became a headache as i needed to shift depending on scenes, some used to stand in very front while some at back, some times placement was based on the audians view, as i was blocking there view standing at center. few times i moved tripod to cope but wasn't rectified and i ignored there pleas.
Rest apart was a piece of cake but physically challenging has i had to stand whole day from morning to evening. My legs where really falling. I was literally tired when i went back home. In certain events like "minute to win it" i kept camera in a wide angle covering whole table and kept it to roll and went back and sat behind but this didn't paved much.
*********still more to be updated********
Recently in my CS branch we hosted a farewell party. I planned myself to capture this event in a bit professional way ( sorta experiment). I geared up with the resources i can afford at that time. Practically resources was too limited and for sure i can no way cope with the oncoming requirements. instead it was just make over. Any ways we managed to come up with two cameras (thanks for ujwal 2nd year for Panasonic hd camera). I knew this couldn't work out well as these two cameras are far apart in terms of specification and resolution. Sony seems to capture home video type low resolution amateur video while Panasonic had a way beyond resolution with clear picture with which you can watch HD videos on your home HD TV.
So in order to use resources well i planned up to use both of these in some what better way. I placed Panasonic HD camera to shoot main event on stage while to use sony handy-cam to capture behind the scene events, audian's etc, well now settled with those cameras. Now needed a tripod ie, a stand that is used to place cameras and shoot continuous shot. This tripod is not an ordinary one it ways back costing more then a digital camera it costs around 8 to 10k. Thanks to rashmi, She arranged bringing one on rent.
With 30k panasonic camera, 18k sony handycam, 8k sony cybershot, 8k tripod, thats make total of 64k equipments, with which i needed to accomplish the planned task.
Professionals use audio equipments such as wire less MIC or wired MIC sometimes which will be placed in various places to capture speaker as well as audian's voices over time which will be clubbed to get the finished form. But i wasn't able to afford one. So i did shooting without the aid of one. prepared to obtain video with much distortion and noice.
On Farewell Day:-
As planned before i was able to shoot event using those equipment and everything went right. Sony handy cam was given to one of the junior to shoot. He did decent side capturing, while panasonic HD camera was handled by me and i shot from beginning to end, though i found bit confused to handle at first, i managed to make over and cope with the equipment and did a finest shoot. At first we found an issue where we found difficulty in unfolding tripod, later some how unfolded after trial and errors. and when program started we found that the camera was crippling and was not tightly adjusted to tripod, This was bit challenging because we had to fix the problem while camera was rolling, this was bit tricky because camera used to shake and rotate while tighting the nut, this may lead to loosing the event and it will be a blow as there is no retake and i was in no way prepared to loose any of the event, by the expertise of ujwal this problem was fixed with minor distortion which was later negotiated in post ediiting. I also found difficulty in placing camera in front of stage, has i had no clear idea in what distance it needed to be placed, the problem was not with zoom has the camera was equipped with 26x zoom with which i can even shoot dust on a screen but the problem was with zoom out or a wide angle of the stage. If i place in front of the i couldn't cover wide angle shot, but has i dint had audio equipments i could capture voice of the speaker on stage with less noise from crowd has it is bit far from crowd but nearest to the speaker.but if i had went back there i could cover whole stage in wide angle shot but has it was in between crowds there was more possibility of voice recording would be lower of the speaker and filled with crowd noise (later in post editing i found out that crowd voice was too high and it was crossing the minimum threshold level which used to make buzz noise when play backed) there was also possibility of my voice being recorded (it happened many times) has i was behind the camera and much louder has i stand behind the camera very closer nearer to inbuilt mic system. All these factor would ruin the video and it may seems random shot, just an amateur video. editing would take lot of work to rectify these ( I will write about my efforts to rectify sound distortion in later pages) .
Camera placement became a headache as i needed to shift depending on scenes, some used to stand in very front while some at back, some times placement was based on the audians view, as i was blocking there view standing at center. few times i moved tripod to cope but wasn't rectified and i ignored there pleas.
Rest apart was a piece of cake but physically challenging has i had to stand whole day from morning to evening. My legs where really falling. I was literally tired when i went back home. In certain events like "minute to win it" i kept camera in a wide angle covering whole table and kept it to roll and went back and sat behind but this didn't paved much.
*********still more to be updated********
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