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Tips for Shooting Better Movies

Producing high-quality movies can be a real challenge for amateur photographers. After all, by comparison we’re used to watching the best productions that television, video, and motion pictures can offer. Whether it’s fair or not, our efforts are compared to what we’re used to seeing produced by experts. While this chapter can’t make you into a pro videographer, it can help you improve your efforts.

Plan Ahead

There are several things to consider when planning a video shoot, and when possible, a shooting script and storyboard can help you produce a higher-quality video. I cover the use of lenses with the 6D Mark II in more detail in Chapter 7, but a discussion of lens selection, zooming, and other tools may ...

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