Friday, February 17, 2012

Don't Get Jiggly with it: Shoot Better Travel Videos

You've got to love those old vintage vacaction videos your grandparents shot with some huge black and white bohemouth camera that they then transfered to a reel to reel player and flashed on the living room wall for everyone to enjoy. Well, actually not much has changed. We're still boring our friends with our recorded exploits. It's just now we do it with a smart phone and a blog post.

The only problem with that is it's hard to hold these little devices steady. So you're smiling wave from Machu Picchu ends up looking like you're about to fall off the mountain. So blogger, traveler, director and all around interesting guy Roger Sherman has posted a handy guide on Huffington Post Travel on how to use your smart phone or other small device to shoot video in a way that holds the frame steady. It's a cool bit of advice.

So if you want to shoot better impromtu videos, check out the Huffington Post story here.

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