Shutter Sisters

When Pictures Move

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Picture Hope: Curious Eyes & Hopeful Hearts from LittlePurpleCow Productions on Vimeo.

Earlier this year, I traded my Nikon D80 for a D90 primarily because I was drawn to the notion of experimenting with video. As a photographer first, my initial instinct and preference is always to create still images, but there are certain moments in time when a single photograph is challenged to clearly document an experience. Standing in an open field in Kizarakome, Rwanda when these children appeared was one of those moments. When pictures move, you can study the sweetness of evolving expressions, watch curiosity unfold, and witness the ease of joy and trust in motion.

How do you feel about moving pictures? Are you experimenting? Curious to try?

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Video capture using a Nikon D90 with a Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lens. Video editing in iMovie ’09.

Comments

  1. This video made me laugh and cry all at once. So inspiring…and – yes – I am curious to try video out for myself.
    Fantastic and very creative piece!!!

  3. Video is very difficult for me and I wasn’t expecting that, to be honest, and my attempts have been very humbling. It’s so different from still photography, and I admire people who have a natural affinity for it. It’s one of the things that I want to work on the hardest, though. What I underestimated the most? The need for disk space, memory and TIME to edit and post. This was one of the biggest struggles of my journalism program.

    It’s so worth it, though, when you can capture things like this and people and places you need never forget as you met them. I wish I had more from Vietnam – I’m glad you have this.

    Actually I most treasure some clips I took of my grandmother before she died. I highly recommend capturing footage of loved ones, anything you’d truly like to remember.

  4. there is a certain beauty in still photos and also beauty in those that move. i only have a little flip video recorder (nothing on my nikon) and i find myself gravitating towards it when i need to capture sound in real life. those moments i don’t want to forget when life is at it’s all time best and i can’t imagine anything being more beautiful than where we are right now.

    7 seconds of underwater bliss: http://www.flickr.com/photos/camerashymomma/3860022305/
    laughter from the heart: http://www.flickr.com/photos/camerashymomma/3651715373/

  7. I love this. The song has special meaning for me, and I needed it this morning–impeccable timing, as always, for the messages coming through from this blog.

    I think we’re all born with the shameless curiosity these kids show here, and that so many of us have lost it (why????) as we have grown. I hope for their sakes that they never lose that. I hope for our sakes we can relearn this way of being.

  11. I too have been struggling with the video aspect of my art. I never wanted to be the one who was never a part of the picture. But… I have been thrown over the edge. My daughter is now on a training team for Olympic Swimming and I have decided that my still pictures just don’t seem to capture the excitement of a race that is won by 1/100 of a second! I have all of these pictures of her swimming but to be honest, if I didn’t write down what event she was swimming at what point in her career, I would have no idea what meet they were from. I now am the proud owner of a hand held vidoe recorder and I can now replay all of those races over and over and relive that excitement. So I say go for it!

  14. er the edge. My daughter is now on a training team for Olympic Swimming and I have decided that my still pictures just don't seem to capture the excitement of a race that is won by 1/100 of a second! I have all of these pictures of her swimming but to be honest, if I didn't write down what event she was swimming at what point in her career, I would have no idea what meet they were from. I no
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  16. You've got a gift, my dear. This really is something special and it helped me smile big to get a opportunity to peek to the lives of those kids. Whenever we were at the park today, I thought of this post and captured a few silly moments of my littlest two