How is Shutter Speed Measured?
How is Shutter Speed Measured? When cameras were first introduced, shutter speed was a representation of the amount of time (in seconds) that the camera’s metal shutter would remain open to allow light to come in to create the image before the metal shutter would clamp back down. Shutter speed is one of several elements […]
How Does the Hole Size in Aperture Sight Determine the Distance to Shot?
How Does the Hole Size in Aperture Sight Determine the Distance to Shot? Understanding your equipment is one of the most challenging, and equally rewarding, educational opportunities that a newly aspiring cinematographer or photographer can get involved in. The more you learn about your camera’s structure and the role that each working part plays in […]
Understanding the Difference Between Vibrance VS Saturation
Understanding the Difference Between Vibrance vs Saturation Post-production editing workflows will involve a variety of tasks that draw the editor’s eye toward the details of an image in order to make just the right type and amount of adjustments to improve the level of quality in such a way that the audience can’t help but […]
What Does Aperture Do?
What Does Aperture Do? As a cinematographer it’s important for you to learn how your camera equipment works and to understand the relationship of various working parts to the images you capture. One such working part that is important for every cinematographer to understand is aperture. Aperture is the term used to describe the hole […]
What’s the Difference Between the Rule of Thirds vs Phi Grid?
What’s the Difference Between the Rule of Thirds vs Phi Grid? In filmmaking key components of any great cinematography are impacted by composition. But understanding composition requires a deeper level interest in how image placement and fundamentals play a key role in achieving impressive framing on the screen. Composition, or the basic framing of the […]
What Does Shutter Speed Do?
What Does Shutter Speed Do? As a cinematographer, you may not have as much of love for the shutter, but ask any photographer and they’ll likely tell you that they absolutely love to hear that click as the shutter moves up and down, producing the image that has been captured by the camera. The click […]
What Does ISO Stand For?
What Does ISO Stand For? As a cinematographer or aspiring filmmaker, you’ve probably started to learn a lot about various camera components and their relationship to exposure. For example, you may know that aperture, ISO, and shutter speed are all part of the exposure triangle and that they work together to influence the amount of […]
Top Shallow Focus Film Benefits
Top Shallow Focus Film Benefits Various cinematography techniques are used to create the “look” or “feel” that the director wants to achieve. One such technique is the use of shallow focus which is often implemented into the cinematic works that we see in movies and in corporate videos, too. Shallow focus film benefits the production […]
Does Your Exposure Triangle Have to be Perfect?
Does Your Exposure Triangle Have to be Perfect? Understanding the exposure triangle and the representation of the unique relationship between aperture, shutter speed, and ISO is important in filmmaking and in still photography. At Beverly Boy Productions, early cinematographers frequently ask us about the importance of the exposure triangle and how accurate it must be. […]
How to Fix Radial Distortions on Lenses
How to Fix Radial Distortions on Lenses If you’ve ever looked at an object or a scene through a long lens, and then adjusted to an even longer lens and then again to an even longer one, you might have noticed how the scene or object can be pinched or pulled into various distorted ways […]