Those of you who know me know I’m having some trouble with all these photographers who suddenly want to become filmmakers just because their new Canons or Nikons can take HD video. You see, in my opinion, I think the only people who will benefit from these cameras (besides Nikon & Canon and all the other manufacturers for selling them to us in the first place) are those who spent a good deal of time studying the film making process. Just because one has the ability to take video with their still cameras doesn’t mean they should take video, at least not before learning how to make great moving pictures.

So, that being said, all you photographer-wannabe-filmmakers, watch this video and see how it should be done. Pay attention to it closely, and watch it a few times, and understand that you need to learn a whole lot more than just switching that dial on your DSLR to “video” before you can get to do something as nice as this.