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I’ve done both a handful of times. Most important part is the scheduling so it’s not an afterthought or done in between takes without planning. The person taking the pix should be compensated accordingly and credited and offered Copies of the completed work. Lighting for stills is different than motion, and treat it as such. My suggestion is to shoot stills on prelight day. But and if you must you can shoot during the regular shoot but again plan for it. Respect the photographer and talent and hire a separate photo DIT/assistant for the stills
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I’ve done tests on this - actually did it on back-to-back productions—-stopping for stills, using Alexa or other as the “still camera” (shoot lockoffs to reduce motion blur), hiring a separate still shooter and leapfrogging sets to give each medium the love it takes. Hands down, the last is the way to go if you have the faintest budgetary prayer. Not that you can’t get serviceable—especially with digital deliverables. But if you really have standards and a desire to apply a measure of craft, experience is clear on this.
You notice I said to do it that way if you can—and for the reason you suggest plus motion direction vs still are very diff animals. But there are times..
I know several dir/dps who shoot both broadcast and print. Check out Steve Moyer (www.stevenfmoyer.com) who shoots both and is super chill. I have produced both from the very beginning, mostly because my Japanese almost always shoot both. They treat each separately. Sometimes the creative works for both but usually there is separate creative, especially if there is a celebrity involved. Everything is well planned and scheduled. There are no afterthoughts and no one pretends this is BTS. I think a dir/dp who can shoot print will be a huge asset. Moving forward in content production. You just have to find the right partner. Reach out if you want to discuss.
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I have had agency pull stills from my my motion camera in the past. Some did it without asking, no compensation and pretty big print ads, I’ve also had producers ask if I can shoot stills and when I asked for compensation they stated they could have a PA do it. Both situations I was not compensated not supplied the requested finished product. Can you say Lame? That said if you would like to discuss further hit me up. Www.jimmymatlosz.com
Part of this really depends on the genre...lifestyle, cars, comedy, anthemic...they would each have their own opportunities and challenges. IF you have the skill set to do both well I think it's a competitive advantage within the small-mid range category of work. For the bigger budget stuff 500k+ projects I don't see that it makes sense to do both unless you're creating on separate days for each medium. Good point on lighting below but the newer mirrorless cameras are allowing for shooting with video lighting as long as that makes sense for the creative and you don't need a lot of DOF