A Moving Moment, A Different Type Of Wedding Video

A Moving Moment, A Different Type Of Wedding Video

As many of you know I (Lee Morris) am a professional wedding photographer. I was never a big fan of wedding videos until I saw the work that StillMotion was putting out. Even if you hate weddings you can appreciate what they do simply from an artistic standpoint. Even though I loved their work, I actually found it discouraging because I knew I could never do their style of video as well as they could so I never tried to film a wedding.

I had the idea for over a year of shooting a wedding video similar to how I shoot stills. If I could slow down the video enough I could deal with basically a moving image, something that I felt a lot more comfortable with. It finally worked out that Patrick Hall had a wedding on a day that I was free and 3 days before the wedding I ran the idea by the bride and then called my buddy Mike to see if he wanted to help me film it. Check out the finished product below and the walk-through after that.



Cameras Used:
Canon 60D
Canon T2i
Panasonic AF100

Lenses Used:
Tamron 17-55mm 2.8 VC
Canon 70-200mm 2.8 IS
Canon 200mm f2
Canon 16-35mm 2.8
Voigtlander 25mm f/0.95
Panasonic 7-14mm F4
Panasonic 14-140 f4-5.8

Other Gear:
Cinevate Atlas Slider
Photoflex Starlite
Ebay LED Panel

I did a voice over of the video and tried to explain how we shot the project.



If you prefer Youtube you can see the video here.

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Lee Morris is a professional photographer based in Charleston SC, and is the co-owner of Fstoppers.com

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Nicely done. I like the powerful music near the end really brings a good end to the video. I have to say I felt that the video was a little long to hold a person's attention. Especially when everything is in slow motion it really drags the time out. Maybe cut it shorter by a bit?

Simply timeless and classic. I ~LOVE~ it!!  Amazing work! 

Fantastic!

Excellent video; as you said, every single frame could be for itself. The Explanation also is very nice- refreshingly short and informative, with focus on technique, but without loosing the trail.

Great Video, and an interessting fact is that it didn't warp... I've always having troubles using twixtor like 50% speed, that it warp over and over, how did you make it work? I shoot at 50fps, because the european t2i
allows only 50fps @ 720p.
keep up the good work!
chris

How come this video doesn't exist anymore?