Hi friends and welcome back to my
Channel. Today I have for you another
episode in my K19 Studio series where i
am teaching young women filmmakers how
to make awesome youtube videos starting
with the basics. Today i want to share
with you the 101 of shooting in manual!
So this is a warning for all of you
novices out there this is going to be
very basic I want to start from the very
beginning so if you don't know anything
about shooting in manual, maybe you don't
even know what it means,
this is the video for you! First of all
let's talk about what is "shooting
in manual"? well if you have a DSLR camera
like mine, I use the canon t3i, then you can
choose in your video settings between
the exposure being auto or manual.
To start out with learning how to shoot in
manual first of all let's figure out
what does exposure mean? Well exposure in a
camera, really simply, is is the lighting -
how much light is going into the camera
and what kind of image is it then
creating in the camera. Exposure is made
up of three key parts. So often we talk
about the exposure triangle. The exposure
triangle includes aperture, shutter speed,
and ISO. These are the three settings
that you'll be changing when you're
shooting in manual that are sort of most
important to your exposure. So let's talk
about the first part of the exposure
triangle which is shutter speed shutter speed.
If i were to compare a camera to a
human eye which i think is one of the
easiest ways to start to understand it
is basically how fast you blink - i know
that might sound silly at first. When
you're taking a picture the shutter is
what is deciding whether light is coming
through the lens or not the longer the
shutter is open for the more like that
gets in the short of the shutter is open
for the less so a really fast shutter
speed be like 14 thousand and a more
moderate shutter speed would be like 1
over 64 1 over 50 often you will set
your shutter speed 250 when filming that
is sort of the standard shutter speed
that gives you the most lifelike look
when it comes to video where you'll
notice the shutter speed is in the
motion blur if I was filming at a very
very high shutter speed it would be
almost no motion blur whatsoever but if
you're filming at a lower shutter speed
then you're going to get a more natural
look where there will be simpler
you see the motion happening as if you
would in real life insurance was also
gonna just how exposed or underexposed
your images so right now if i was to
turn my shutter speed lower you can see
that i'm getting brighter right now it's
a 30 but it was turn it higher now it's
at four hundred and you can hardly see
me so that is the basics of shutter
speed you're going to have to decide
what you want to do based on the
situation but in general I would
recommend putting your shutter speed to
about 50 to get the most natural look
possible so that is one corner of the
exposure triangle the next is aperture
bring it back to RI camera metaphor if
your camera wasn't I the aperture would
be how why do you have your eyes open so
if you were squinting that is going to
be a narrow aperture but actually a big
number in terms of f-stops and if you
had your eyes wide open then that is
going to be a really wide aperture but
actually a low f-stop number there are a
couple different practical applications
of how you might want to adjust your
aperture based on the lighting
conditions for one the narrowness or the
wideness is determining how much light
is being led into the camera so if you
were in a low light situation you would
have your aperture really wide because
you want to get as much light as
possible so you can actually see what's
going on around you but if you're
outdoors and it was really bright out
then you would want to make your
aperture really small so that you
weren't getting totally over exposing
everything would just be white but other
than how much light is being let into
the camera the aperture also dictates
the depth of field so depth of field is
something that you probably notice all
the time but just haven't found a word
for it yet
whenever you see images that have a
really crisp foreground
in a really nice cereal blurry
background that is an image that had a
shallow depth of field and this is
created by a low aperture on my 50
millimeter prime lens if i have the
aperture wide open to 1.4 it is going to
have a really nice shallow depth of
field I can pinpoint my focus on a very
particular part of the scene and have
the rest of it in a nice blur but if you
have an aperture more around 4.5 like
the aperture minimum on my kit lens then
in general the entire scene is going to
be mostly in focus kind of like in this
video so this comes the tricky part
what if you had your shutter speed of 50
because you wanted to have the most
natural effect possible and you wanted
to have your aperture at 1.4 so that you
could have a really shallow depth of
field but it's super super bright out
well sometimes you're just going to have
to realize that the lighting is not
going to work
maybe you can adjust your shutter speed
however that is going to lessen the
motion blur effect and make it a little
less natural so what you can do is
resort to the third point on the
exposure triangle and adjust your iso
iso is simply the sensitivity to light
that the camera had so we think about in
terms of our camera I metaphor then the
iso of your eye is like how sensitive
your eyes are too light so if you have
like a migraine or something and then
you would be overly sensitive to light
or if you've been outside in the bright
all day and then go into a dark room
then your eyes would be under sensitive
to light and things would start you know
it would be hard to see so that's the
idea of iso iso ranges from like a
hundred to like 1600 but you really
don't want to go to the high end of iso
the more sensitive to light that your
camera is the more that you're going to
see noise or grain in your picture so
you want to keep a low ISO as much as
possible so in our example that I gave
previously where you want to have a
really low f-stop and
a shutter speed of 50 you would need to
change your ISO down to like a hundred
which is fine
you're not going to have any noise or
grain in that image however if it was
the opposite and you want to be shooting
with a really narrow aperture in a dark
room you want to change your ISO to make
that work you have to bump your ISO up
to like 1600 or even higher than that
and you're going to end up with a really
grainy looking picture so let's review
shutter speed is how long the shutter of
the camera is open for and therefore how
long light is being let into the camera
aperture is how wide the camera is open
and therefore how much light is being
let on to the camera sensor and iso is
how sensitive the camera sensor is too
light
once again i just want to remind
everybody that this is the absolute
basics i do not consider myself an
expert whatsoever I think of myself as a
novice teaching beginners so if you're a
beginner in making videos then you're
very very welcome here and i would love
to hear what other topics for videos
that you want to learn about as always
if you've made a video recently make
sure to send it to me on twitter at
Katie secondly I would love to watch it
and encourage you in your YouTube
journey you can treat hashtag k-19
studio and then everybody else in the
comments can check it out as well thanks
so much for watching I really hope this
video was helpful for you make sure you
check out the rest of my canteen studio
playlist where I give tips and tricks to
beginners on making YouTube videos in
terms of technical side the creative
side the organizational side like to
tackle it also make sure you check those
out make sure you give this video a
thumbs up if you enjoyed it and let me
know in the comments what other parts of
filmmaking you want to learn about
thanks so much for watching and happy
creating