Last week we was given the chance to
experiment and get to grips with the
cameras that we would be shooting on this semester and through out the year,
the cannon XF100.
We was given a tutorial on how to use the
camera but also how to adapt the setting to fit the environment. There where four
key settings we had to change and to adapt. Shutter speed, gain or ISO, iris or
aperture and white balance. As a amateur photography I was quite familiar with
some of the terms and how there affected the shot.
1) When shooting in the UK the shutter speed always has to be at 1/50 or you’ll get interference black lines that run horizontal across the screen. This interference may not be noticeable until you get to the edit where it might be too late.
2) It’s always best to shoot at zero or as close to zero as possible to reduce the amount of noise or gain in the shot.
3) Aperture is all about measuring
light, the lower the aperture the more light the shot is exposed to. You are
best hanging this when out filming as condition and lightening are constantly
changing.
4) Changing the white balance helps you get a much more true colour contrast. its hard to get the colour contrast right sometimes as the pre recoded settings might not do the shot any justice. We got taught to hold a piece of white paper in front of the camera then record our own setting to get the white balance perfect.
4) Changing the white balance helps you get a much more true colour contrast. its hard to get the colour contrast right sometimes as the pre recoded settings might not do the shot any justice. We got taught to hold a piece of white paper in front of the camera then record our own setting to get the white balance perfect.
After our tutorial
we was then asked to work in pairs to create a short 45 second video which we
then stitched together using final cut pro. Our video consisted of three 15 seconds clips of sheffield.
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