jag32266
Well-Known Member
With all due respect,.. I made a career out of the film/video biz and I recall back in the height of the music video daze when, what we then referred to as 'shaky cam' was becoming all the rage. It is where the camera is CONSTANTLY moving, bobbing-around, not holding the subject in frame etc. Still a huge fad particularly in reality tv shows,.. my fellow professionals used to joke about how that was done by "want-to-be's" non-pro's who _couldn't_ hold the camera still. The other side of that joke,. while doing smooth camera moves if you messed it up you were kidded as being the jerk BEHIND the camera as opposed to a jerk in the camera (move).One technique that worked for me was to look at a lot of drone photos and videos and figure out what looked good to me. I then went about trying to recreate them through trial and error and a lot of help from this forum.
I guess my point is, you need to know the rules before you can break them.
So going about learning the way you suggest is similar to what I mention above. B/c you like something doesn't make it a good method. With all due respect