Filming or photography holiday?

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Jerryv

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This summer iam goining to walk the West Highland Ways in Scotland. Its the first time iam doing something like this.

I have a videocamera, but iam thinking of shooting pictures instead. Because it wil be mainly landscapes with little movement in it, so why use video? Its a lot more work (you cannot just take 'a picture' in video there 'must' be some kind of story and you dont just want to have some random shots) and there is no need for it, really.

Iam not bringing both, i must travel light. But i want this discussion is a broader context: for walking holiday trips like this, what do you recommend, video or photo? and why?

Further more, do you have any suggestions how to make the video entertaining without having just taken "moving pictures" (iam used to fiction, setting everything in scene...).

Oh wel, i just like to hear some opinions, story's, suggestions etc on this subject!

Greetings,
Jerry
 
I'd probably go with stills for this. Unless you have a story or some sort of action, video is a little unnecessary. Take some great pictures and show us a few when you get back.
 
I say stills. Sounds like you could get some really beautiful pics. With video, unless you have a story of some kind, there won't be much reason to watch and then you won't even be able to capture decent stills (unless you're shooting HD?)
 
Yeah, it depends.

I can watch stuff like sunrise earth all day long. If you are that kind of person, and are shooting HD, then I wouldn't immediately count it out.
 
I will take a still photo camera. Because the video wont have a context, story. You "cannot" just take random shots of nice images and put them toghter witout something to 'hold' it togheter, like a story. With photograpy you can just shoot whatever you like, without thinking about the following shots to make a 'story'.
 
Yeah I'd go with the still unless you have someone to follow around and narrate like Rick Steeves or something. I find that I have a better time when I'm not lugging around video equipment on holidays anyways :)
 
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