Blade Canyon
Senior Member
I took a great videography class in Atlanta yesterday. Ray Roman makes these huge cinematic wedding videos. Capture Cinematic Weddings
He uses DSLRs exclusively, except on his drone. Even when shooting outside at a beach wedding, he ignores the conventional wisdom of "1/50th shutter speed at 24p and a Neutral Density filter to keep the shutter speed low." Instead, he sets his ISO at the native setting, sets his aperture where he wants it for depth of field, then uses the shutter speed thumb-wheel to make constant adjustments to the exposure. The proof was in the results, because these weddings are not fast action, and you can't tell that he's shooting high speed shutter. You can see some of his videos at the link above. From a practical standpoint, everything he said made a lot of sense, because you can't mess around with filters while trying to record a live event with shifting light (sunset weddings).
He also uses manual focus exclusively. The class was mostly lecture, and I would have liked to see behind the scenes footage showing how he shoots at a wedding, but you had to pay for the second day master class to get hands-on experience shooting like he does.
Roman is still on tour if you want to spend a day learning how to shoot wedding video. His class was very specific to wedding videographers, and it was clear he believed that everyone in the room was a wedding videographer, even though the class was also advertised for enthusiasts and hobbyists.
He uses DSLRs exclusively, except on his drone. Even when shooting outside at a beach wedding, he ignores the conventional wisdom of "1/50th shutter speed at 24p and a Neutral Density filter to keep the shutter speed low." Instead, he sets his ISO at the native setting, sets his aperture where he wants it for depth of field, then uses the shutter speed thumb-wheel to make constant adjustments to the exposure. The proof was in the results, because these weddings are not fast action, and you can't tell that he's shooting high speed shutter. You can see some of his videos at the link above. From a practical standpoint, everything he said made a lot of sense, because you can't mess around with filters while trying to record a live event with shifting light (sunset weddings).
He also uses manual focus exclusively. The class was mostly lecture, and I would have liked to see behind the scenes footage showing how he shoots at a wedding, but you had to pay for the second day master class to get hands-on experience shooting like he does.
Roman is still on tour if you want to spend a day learning how to shoot wedding video. His class was very specific to wedding videographers, and it was clear he believed that everyone in the room was a wedding videographer, even though the class was also advertised for enthusiasts and hobbyists.