Topic Category: photo
📷 🎬 Other Resources
Here are a few places on the internet worth checking out. I’m fairly particular about recommending a source so know that these are vetted for a certain level of professionalism and accuracy. Learn to Learn Vet sources. Talk with professionals. Don’t be afraid to humbly ask questions. Get feedback. Know where you’re going and don’t …
📷 🎬 Why FennWorld?
Why FennWorld? It seems to me that at some point most human beings have wanted to be a photographer or make a video about something. Sort of like how everyone considers writing a novel or starting a podcast. Whether it’s a mom wanting better shots of her kids, an employee thrown into making videos for …
📷 🎬 Operating A Camera’s Controls
Now that you know what exposure means and are familiar with how aperture, shutter speed and ISO operate, let’s look at how to apply them in the real world. By far, the simplest method I’ve found of applying this knowledge is the exposure simulator below. While we can’t go over every camera in existence, I …
💡🎬 📷 Other Useful Software
Daisy Disk Daisy Disk is a great tool for a quick look at what’s taking up space on your hard drive visually. Media Info This is a great free and cross-platform tool for reading video metadata. FFMPEG FFMPEG is an excellent resource for a non-GUI approach to modifying video files. Terminal Mac OS’ command line …
📷 🎬 What is Good Color?
For both video and photo work, knowing how to develop an eye for pleasing color choice is a skill worth honing. When we talk about color in post, we’re talking about taking the existing color and contrast in the image captured from the camera and tweaking it in some way. Sometimes that’s simply to normalize …
💡📷 🎬 Hard Drives, Transfer Protocols and Data Rates
Thunderbolt 3 uses a USB 3.1 Type C connector, providing 40 Gbps over a PCIe bus to the CPU. Media files are large, so at some point we inevitably have to cover the technology that helps us transfer and store them. This will be a hopefully not-to-painful look at the terms involved in digital storage …
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📷 🎬 Talent & Location Releases
For any project, it’s important to have proper permission from anyone recognizable on camera. Location Release You need to have a release that both guarantees permission has been granted for you to film at your location and which releases the location owner from liability should someone be injured in the course of filmmaking. Talent Release …
💡📷 🎬 Inverse Square Law
Why is this important? Consider the following scenario: If our talent is sitting on a couch in front of a cream colored wall and we have no contrast, how can we make the wall darker? By moving the light closer.