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Not sure to believe all the hype about D-SLRs? Want to go old school on a travel walkabout grabbing shots with a long focus or extreme wide angle lens? Or maybe you have your eye on some local exterior locations that cry out for a special lens and more light control and aperture mechanism customized settings than your smart camera will allow? Online rental order systems make camera and photography rental easy.
Maybe you have always wondered what your take might be wandering around a location you feel passionate about with a serious industry-strength high definition camcorder on your shoulder? Take a look at the trend in renting cameras and lenses. Indie Rentals on Sunset in Los Angeles can allow that photo-friendly city trawl some serious frame capture reality. Maybe that independent movie project is only as far away as your telephone.
It’s nice to be able to source flourescents and flickers or power switches and sources for location shoots that are far from the regular wall outlet. Shooting a wedding or an athletic event, special community event or public relations gig needs serious equipment. Some of the best video editing options require the optimal “grab”. Experience with this equipment can lead to serious photographic employment.
Maybe that side gig as a video editor might open up with some reel footage to show. Maybe some cinematography employment might occur if you have some video to show of your work. If you can do tracking shots, quick focus, get video photography without interference of light shadow or passerby or reflections, you could have some solid entertainment industry credibility for a video resume.
Almost all entertainment industry work demands video material as a portfolio resource. And a personal project in the planning stage might mature with  a rental date on your calendar. That documentary project you have been working on could be on Youtube tonight if you had some serious digital video assistance in the form of the technical equipment rentable here. And microstock sites now have a lot of demand for video in virgin territory across many categories and subject areas.
If you are budgeting in some investment in a new lens or camera, consider bumping your resume up a notch. Renting a serious but easy to use level of technical photography equipment signals your transition from hobby photographer to freelance semi-pro. And forming project relationships when working on freelance projects with equipment like this will create fture opportunities.
Video photography is the media of television, film, and online media sites and image file material. Experience editing your own stock and working with partners will only enhance your current photographic capabilities. And each HD video frame is a microstock opportunity waiting to be developed.
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