*Dragneye

When I bought a digital camcorder last year for my trip to Greece, I had figured I could kill two birds with one stone. I would have video, and also extract specific 'beauty' stills, since a a few seconds of film is really a bunch of single pictures cycled through fast enough to fool the eye.
Well, it did work but something gets lost in the 'translation'. It's also why I got into animation in the first place.
Some of the best pictures are not only a single moment in time, they tell a story. And if that story, that individual epic of life can be shown in movement and sound, it would be greatly enhanced, and enriched.
That sadly gets lost when I take a still. For example, I recently posted a few pictures of my trip flying around with my cousin and his plane. Well the pictures may be nice (the pix from the Greek car show are from the same footage), but the excitement of seeing all that beautiful terrain from a low altitude, or swooping down to 100 feet above the houses, or the sounds of the engine going into the dive... are all lost.
Or take the car show. Or the Saturday night races. I love the pungent rich smell of burning rubber, or the squealing of tires as they come round turns one and two, one car after another in a metal stressing symphony. I get an enormous thrill when my son and I sit right up against the wall, our noses in the fence as the cars go racing by, getting hit in the face on occasion with chunks of rubber stripped off the tires as they slowly disintegrate from the tight turns. Not one of my stills can impart that. Not one.

Yeah.... something does really get lost... in translation.