Rewrite #2

Hey Everyone!

Today I watched three videos about cameras and audio. I found them extremely useful for my photography and my videos in the future so I would like to share them with you.

There are 5 camera basics that everyone needs to know to make professional photography and videos. The first one is Frame Rate. This tells you how many frames are in 1 second of your video, For example we shoot a video in 1 second with 30 frames. It basically means it takes 30 photographs in 1 second. The industry standard is 24 FPS "most cinematic", This is the most natural looking motion. If you want to do a slow motion you do it on 60 FPS so when it is slowed down it is clean and smooth. 

There are 3 settings to get correct exposure which is the ISO, shutter speed and the aperture. The second one is the ISO, usually known as "fake light" . It's a way to make your image brighter or darker completely digitally. The down side to this is that it produces noise/grain in the image/ when you boost the ISO it looks like TV static on the image. Try to keep ISO under 1000. 

The third one is the shutter speed which is basically how long your image is exposed to the world. The sensor inside the camera is what sees the world and captures the image on the SD card. There is a shutter in front of the sensor that keeps it from seeing anything "Eyelid to camera". Depending on how fast your shutter will go up and down it will make your image brighter or darker. When you change the shutter speed you change the motion blur. If it's fast the shutter will open and close and it will see what's in front of the camera with no motion, When it's slowed down the opposite will see the object from one side to the other and create a smear on the image. The shutter speed should be double the frame rate for natural looking blurred videos, For example the frame rate is 24 FPS and shutter speed should be 1/50. 

The fourth one is the aperture which is the "Eyeball of the cameras". The aperture opens up and controls how much light comes in your camera. It's like a pupil when it's big it allows more light in the eye, smaller pupil allows less light. It also affects the depth of field which means it controls how blurry the background is. 

Lastly the white balance basically tells your camera what is pure white, if the setting is off the white looks orange or blue it will cause other colours to lean that way. To get the correct white balance is to purchase grey cards. It will guarantee every time that the white balance will be perfect. 

There are ways of making your smartphone photos and videos look cinematic. Having the correct camera settings is an essential for being more professional and consistent through the whole video. Record resolutions 4k or more. 60 FPS to allow you to slow down the video later and it removes a lot of camera shake. Movement is an essential for the video to look cinematic. The mistake most people make is they stand still and pan the camera with no movement, But you want to pan around the object for a cinematic effect. Phones usually have highly saturated, highly contrasted and produce poppy images, To make it cinematic lower the saturation and colour contrast in your settings. Add a cinema crop. There's a black bar at the top and bottom of the screen which sells the cinematic look. 

Bye Everyone!

sources:

https://kotrynas.blogspot.com/2021/11/starting-out.html

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