ABSTRACT
Advancing technology increasingly helps photographic artists integrate video into their workflow. Virtually all current dSLRs and mirrorless camera models have video capabilities. Post-production, the workflow step plays an even more important role in the creation of video. This chapter introduces readers to the craft of capturing and editing video, as well as some approaches of artists working in the medium. It sheds light on how video art was born and where it stands. Video art’s time-based nature means that example art pieces can only be represented as still frames, which is not ideal to say the least. Several different art forms gave birth to video art in the 1960s and 70s, and interestingly, photography was not one of them. Like photography, video art relies heavily on technology. Advancements in digital imaging technology have brought about a wide array of devices for capturing video: to dedicated video cameras, there are dSLRs, mirrorless cameras, camera phones, and action cameras, among others.
