From the course: Practical Motion Background Workshop

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Incorporating flat spins and revolutions

Incorporating flat spins and revolutions

From the course: Practical Motion Background Workshop

Incorporating flat spins and revolutions

In our last movie we took a quick peek at the rotation shot. I am using a turntable. You can use a record player, anything of that sort, a Lazy Susan. I prefer a motorized version, however, because it just gives a nice constant revolution speed. Put an object up there and just experiment. In this case, we are using a glass vase, and we are going to go ahead and shoot through this and this faceted, so it's going to give us a lot of reflections. I will go ahead and switch over to a live view, and let's tilt up a little bit. Here we go. And you will see, as I adjust the focus, very different look. Let's start with something very abstract, and I will set that into motion. That looks nice. I am going to adjust the ISO setting on the camera. Make sure we are in Manual mode there. You see different F stops, different looks. There we are at F4. Now, I put the lens at F4. Most of you have an F4 lens. Even if you don't own a prime, a basic even kit lens can go all the way down to F4. So by…

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