From the course: Learning How to Shoot Video at Home
Unlock the full course today
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Setting your ISO and checking exposure
From the course: Learning How to Shoot Video at Home
Setting your ISO and checking exposure
- It's time we finally exposed the final exposure topic, ISO. Unlike in photography, when you're shooting video, you can't just change your shutter speed and aperture willy-nilly. After all, your shutter speed is set to double your frame rate, and your aperture is set to give you a nice shallow depth of the field. So what do you do when you look down at your camera's exposure meter and realize, gasp! This shot is overexposed or underexposed. Well, that's where ISO comes in handy. ISO is, well, complicated, but basically similar to your aperture and shutter speed, ISO determines how sensitive your camera is to light. The higher the ISO the more light sensitivity, which means you can expose better in lower light situations. Well, the lower the ISO, the less sensitivity to light, which means you need a lot more light to expose correctly. So for example, if you're shooting inside or at night, you need a high ISO to expose…
Contents
-
-
-
(Locked)
Choosing the best frame rate2m 58s
-
Setting your shutter speed2m 47s
-
(Locked)
Setting your aperture3m 22s
-
(Locked)
Setting your ISO and checking exposure3m 28s
-
(Locked)
White balancing your camera3m 53s
-
(Locked)
Tips to check focus by yourself3m 42s
-
(Locked)
Making sure you have good audio4m 28s
-
Basic lighting tips to improve your video3m 28s
-
(Locked)
Using basic shot composition4m 20s
-
(Locked)
How to shoot B-roll3m 50s
-
(Locked)
Shooting on your phone4m 50s
-
(Locked)
-