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Shooting top-quality stills and engaging videos has never been easier – all you need is a camera like the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III, which is what Will Cheung used for his shoot OLYMPUS MASTER VIDEO SERIES SHOOT YOUR STORY ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE
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I ’ve spent my life shooting still pictures high-quality video, and that opportunity has been embraced by many photographers. Except me. Until now. Now, I don’t have ambitions to be the next Hitchcock, Tarantino or Kubrick, but just the idea of a short self-promotion video for my website and social media appeals. My production doesn’t need to be groundbreaking (at this stage!), nor do I want to spend so much time shooting video footage that it distracts me from my priority, which is going home with great stills. But as a video newbie, where do you start? and that joy of seeing the final print will never, ever leave me. But now almost every digital camera and smartphone can shoot
IMAGES Shot soon after sunrise with a tripod-mounted Olympus OM-D EM-5 Mark III fitted with a 40- 150mm f/2.8 lens. The rising sun (to camera left) made an early appearance, then disappeared into a low bank of cloud and that’s when this picture was taken. A 15EV extreme neutral density filter enabled an exposure of 50secs at f/11, ISO 200. The Raw was processed in Olympus Viewer 3
Do you shoot in Full HD or 4K, what do all those figures like 24p/25p/29.97/60p mean, which mode to use, do I need a ‘rig’ and external memory, and what about sound and editing? So many questions. The long and the short of it: shooting video can be very involved, but from my naive newbie’s perspective, the old adage of ‘keep it simple, stupid’ was very much at the forefront of my mind. With mobility, usability and quality key prerequisites, I went for the Olympus OM-D EM-5 Mark III. Its small weather-sealed body offers 4K video, up to 5.5EV benefit in-body image stabilisation system (6.5EV with supported lenses) and 20.4-megapixel still images.
I wasn’t so sure which sounds I wanted for my video, but I packed an Olympus LS-P4 audio recorder so I could hotshoe mount and link directly with the camera, so if I needed any background audio, I would have it just in case. The location for my shoot was Southend-on- Sea, for the simple reason that it has a pier. In fact, Southend doesn’t just have a pier: it has the world’s longest pleasure pier. It stretches 2.16km (1.34 miles) into the Thames estuary, and it’s so long it even has its own railway.
I am working on a self-imposed photo project on the country’s existing piers and, three years into it, I am getting close to the end. I had already made one trip to Southend for my project, but such is the unpredictable nature of weather, sky and light that one visit is rarely enough to get what I want, hence a return trip. With an overnight stay booked, it was fingers crossed for a decent sunset and a glorious sunrise to shoot. Well, hope springs eternal.
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