What's up you guys! It's Jordy here for cinecom.net
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I actually cut myself this weekend,
I even have a stitch in there, so now we just have to wait until that is healed up.
But that is not important,
what is important though is that we're going to look at five tricks
on how to use your shutter speed.
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The shutter speed is the refresh rate of your digital camera.
The slower the refresh rate is, the more motion blur we see,
as the sensor is exposed longer to the light.
On the opposite, when the shutter speed is faster than normal,
everything is super sharp as the sensor gets exposed super quickly.
A normal shutter speed gives us a natural motion blur, just like the eyes would see.
A simply rule is to take the double of your frame rate.
So, if your frame rate is 25 fps,
your shutter speed should be 1/50 of a second.
Now, there're many occasions where you don't want a normal shutter speed
and here are five reasons why.
The first one is to bring a more dramatic look to your action films.
We're going to increase the shutter speed to around 1/200 of a second.
Having this on a 25 fps recording,
we actually have a 4 times faster shutter speed than normal.
This trick is actually used in many action or war films.
And one of the most iconic ones is Saving Private Ryan,
to make the explosions and blood splatters more crunchy and sharper.
And this even added a more realistic tone to the film.
Here you can see Yannick and Lorenzo boxing.
The first example is with a normal shutter speed of 1/50,
and now I'm switching to 1/200 of a second,
which makes the entire boxing scene more dramatic.
The next shutter speed trick is the opposite.
I'm going to shoot at 25 fps with a shutter speed of 8.
And this gives us a lot of motion blur,
which could reflect on the dizziness of your actor, who might have just taken some drugs.
Here's that same shot with a normal shutter speed.
As you can see here, the whole feeling of it is just gone.
Shutter speed tip number 3!
If your camera can shoot slo-mo, for example at 180 fps,
you wanna set your shutter speed at 1/360 of a second.
However, if you're shooting a fast action, which is very often the case,
I would actually suggest setting it a bit faster.
Here I'm filming at a normal shutter speed.
We're seeing a normal motion blur, but the audience can't focus on the blurry details,
which become more prominent in slow motion.
So, what I usually tend to do is set my shutter speed to 1/500 on a second,
which slightly makes the moving parts crispier and sharper.
And this is more pleasant for the audience as they can see the details now a lot better.
The next one is about time-lapses.
A beginner mistake I've seen a lot is where someone would let their camera roll
and just speed up their clip in post-production.
But what you're actually doing when speeding up a clip, is changing its frames per second.
So, your shutter speed should also change
but that's something you can't do in post-production.
Some cameras like the GH5 allows you to change the fps in-camera.
And that tells me that I need to change my shutter speed to 1/4
when my fps is 2.
This gives me a natural motion blur when the clip is played back at a higher speed.
If you can't film at a low fps, then do try to set your shutter speed slower,
so that your motion blur is natural when you're speeding it up in post.
And then the final tip for this video is when you're shooting in a dark environment.
You can't increase your ISO endlessly or you will see too much noise.
And that's why you don't have to be afraid to lower your shutter speed a tiny bit,
exposing your sensor more.
Definitely when there's not much movement in your shot,
the extra motion blur is not big of a problem.
Here I'm shooting at 1/30 of a second.
And the same goes when you're filming outside and you forgot your ND filter.
Instead of closing your aperture all the way and having everything in focus,
you could increase your shutter speed to around something of 125
and thus you can open your aperture a tiny bit more,
having the background more out of focus.
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