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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 on 1 second with 30 frames it basically means it takes 30 photographs in the 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". Depends 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 whats in front of the camera with no motion, When it's slowed down the opposite and 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 forth 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 its 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 it 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 to look cinematic. Having the correct camera settings is an essential for 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 affect. 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 cinema crop it's a black bar at the top and bottom of the screen which sell the cinematic look.
Bye Everyone!
sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTUjJoMNWqo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oemzKPodjLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcZJEuTF0ec
I really loved this blog post and I found it so interesting! Everything was explained very well and was broken down and easy to understand. Everything was kept very simple and nothing was over complicated. I learnt a huge amount about how cameras work and operate . I learnt the most important aspects to taking a good photograph and how to take cinematic-like photographs with my phone. This piece was excellently written, I wouldn't change anything.
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ReplyDeleteI liked this post. It was informative and was well presented and didn't over explain. The information was presented in a clear and concise manner, thus making reader comprehension easier.
ReplyDeleteI liked how she greeted her readers and did an outro, it made the post feel very welcoming. The piece contained personality which made it a more enjoyable read, as it did not feel like I was reading an article or a journal.
It could be a good idea to proofread your blog before posting as there were a few grammatical errors throughout, however these are minor and did not seriously interrupt the flow of the post. The explanations of the different camera functions were organised well, the way it was laid out in sections describing each of the four features individually again made the post more comprehensible.
I found this blog post very informative and interesting to read! I liked that you introduced the blog by greeting the readers, it made for a strong opening piece. Each individual point is laid out in a separate paragraph, which makes the text easier to understand. The best part of this post is how you took the effort to explain why someone should choose one camera setting over another. It was also very helpful that you summarised the rest of the post in the final paragraph. The fact that this paragraph also makes a note about the image quality of smartphones lends to its helpfulness. When combined with the earlier tips, there is a large amount of information to help with using a smartphone to record video. Overall, I thought this blog was well thought out and convenient to read. I don’t think that there is anything I would change about this.
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