Wanna see my Thanksgiving?

I could see that this could get old, but here is yet another video. We travelled to Salem to be with family for Thanksgiving, and I documented the prep and the dinner.

It's also my first successful YouTube upload. The quality on YouTube is impressively bad, I must say. There must be a less destructive path from HD then through iMovie. Any suggestions anyone?

Comments

[david adam edelstein]

You know, I was just going to skim through this but I ended up watching the whole thing. The repeated theme of the girls at the window was adorable.

Not sure where it is, but I did see something on the YouTube site about recommendations for best quality uploads.

[Jeff Henderson]

Doug, Really well done! I enjoyed watching your video because I got a sense of what it was like to be there. Sort of a fly-on-the-wall view of Thanksgiving with your family. I like that you were able to capture people doing things in a totally candid way. You definitely have developed a unique video style, which appears quite similar to your still photography style when documenting an event.
You are able to do something in both your still and video photography that continues to allude me when I shoot. That is your ability to focus or zoom in on a subject or scene, sometimes showing only part of a person or object, but still capture the essence of the scene. For some reason I tend to try to 'zoom out' to capture the entire scene or person, but the end result is that I don't always capture the subject or focal point that I saw when I went to capture the image. Unfortunately I don't always recognize this until I return home to edit my photos.