Camera effects

In week 2, we had learned some skills of camera controls in order to make a special feeling of video if we need. Those skills including the setting of Iris, Shutter speed, Gain, that affect the lighting conditions, and white balance, focus, zoom, etc that mainly affect the colour of picture. There are few effects I personally interested showing by those photos:

Shutter speed is an interest camera effect we normally used for filming night view of city and light movement etc. It controls how long a shutter stays should open, usually can take a photo in 1/1600th of a second, or stay open for 30 seconds or more.

This is a example of using shutter speed. Left: 1/40 sec, middle: 1/125 sec, right: 1/2500 sec.

White balance can controls the colour temperature, which means the colour of light because not all the light is pure white. When we are filming, we should notice the condition of light, or use white balance to create a warmer colour tones (more yellow) or colder one (more blue) for our story.
An example of using white balance:


Focus: "Accurate focusing over a range of subject distances, so that the person in front of a tourist sight is as sharp as the landmark behind, requires a small lens aperture. -naqhi" It means we can used focus to sharp the person's position wherever he/she is, and bur other people or background. For me, I think it is useful when we need to follow the character or attract audiences' attention on the specify target.

Can you see the focus of this building is moving?

After learning those effect from class, of course we will use some basic effect such as focus and zooming, and aware of white balance, but we also consider of using other too.

Refrence:

Bennett, R (2008), Photography boot camp: Mastering depth of field, obsessable, http://www.obsessable.com/feature/photography-boot-camp-mastering-depth-of-field/

Digital Photography Tutorials-How to Deal with White Balance in Photography a Complete Guide for the Beginnersat http://www.photoaxe.com/how-to-deal-with-white-balance-in-photography-a-complete-guide-for-the-beginners/

idigital photo (2007), Shutter Speed - Everything You Wanted to Know but Thought it Was Uncool to Ask, http://www.idigitalphoto.com/shutter-speed-explained/

naqhi (2009)Using Compact Cameras to take DSLR quality images, v9konhttp://community.v9kon.com/_Using-Compact-Cameras-to-take-DSLR-quality-images/blog/254112/87240.html