First Day Using a Professional Camera
Today, Thursday 18th of September I had my first class on how to use a professional camera system. I've learned plenty of new things which I will cover in this post. I've learned about the three key things to get right before using the camera, in other words, three things that are crucial to setup before recording or taking a picture. The three questions you must ask yourselves are: Is the picture in focus? Is the picture too dark or too bright? And are the colours right?
In order to focus the right way you must first zoom in the furthest possible into a detailed area using the middle wheel. Once zoomed in you must focus on the object using the first and biggest wheel. That way you will be sure that the image is focused. Next, it is good to check if the colours are right, by doing this you have to adjust the colour wheel which is the last and smallest one. It is also important to play around with the neutral density filter, or ND filter. What this does is it either gives the image more or less colour depending on the lighting in the certain environment. Last but not least there is a white balance. Basically it balances the white colour in the room. if you zoom in a white object and press the white balance button it will fix the white colour by making it a lot whiter. Sometimes we don't notice that an object being filmed is not actually a pure clean white, and we only realize the difference after pressing the white balance button.
Apart from all these technical things, we also learned how to setup the camera I the right position, meaning, making the camera as straight as possible when being held I the tripod. Plus we learned how to manage and setup the tripod the correct way. I predict that there will be a lot more to this camera usage process, but for now it is a good fresh start. It was good to learn the basics before we step into the harder stuff.
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