Ahoj. This is Zdenka. I know it kind of looks like a garbage
It is basically a garbage. But I'm using it to be creative here because it's
another camera creative challenge and it will make sense to you once you watch
this whole video. In past videos we talked about aperture priority mode and
we talked about fully manual mode but we didn't talk about yet fast shutter speed
and I'm talking about that super fast shutter speed when you want to freeze the
motion. You want to freeze the action and that's what we will be covering in today's
video but with a twist. And I will be talking about some highly trending
photos on Instagram these days.. but after this ...after the intro...
And for the new faces, my name is Zdenka Darula. I have been making photo and video
tutorials here, tech reviews and creative camera challenges, so if that is
something you're interested in, you might consider hitting the subscribe
button. But first of all, how did the reflections go? Well, let's look at some
submissions from last month in the random order. First one here is from
Miklos or Miklos. The name is over there. Great reflection of City Jindrichuv
Hradec in Czech Republic. I especially like the colors. I gotta say white
balance is nailed. White is white, blue is blue, green is green. A really nice shot.
Photo here is from Scott Moore. I love the composition. It's interesting shot
and I love the fact it is black and white because the pattern is really
standing out. Photo number 3 is here and it is from Diane Burns. You're looking at
foggy morning shot in Esperance Western Australia. I like the overall calm feel
coming out of the shot. Photo number 4 is here. I think is for Paolo Rocha. It is a
stunning place in Ireland. When you see a reflection of place like that you just
have to take it. Osvaldo Kitcher is showing photo number
5 and it's a nice reflection of an old city in Malta. Another photo here is from
Kirk Schwartz. I believe it's a city reflection of a man walking on the
street. This photo is nicely timed photo. Number 7 is a nice woman's reflection
and the last photo here is from Paul Erica and it is just a nice creative
cool shot. It's a glass ball reflection of a person on the beach. Thank you so much
for participating. All the links to contributors are listed in a video
description below.
Have you seen my latest photos on Instagram? You know that water shot, that
one. Or the gem between the lenses. The 50mm between all those gems. How was it done?
It is quite easy to take a photo of a moving object like a car driving by,
person walking by and stuff like that but what I wanted to do, I wanted to
combine few different things in a photo. First of all, very close-up composition.
Different shapes and very selective aperture. In simple words, I wanted only
the part of the image in focus, part of the image sharp, everything else kind of
blurry, out-of-focus, bokeh and of course I wanted to combine
also some sort of movement in the shot. It's kind of like it's telling a story that shot.
When you are planning your shot and you are choosing your main
object, choose a very bold object as your main object. For the first shot I chose
this and it's basically a plastic water bottle. It used to be. I just cut off the
front, I cut off the back and I made some holes throughout because I wanted the
water to enter the inside. If I didn't do that I would not get the water in. So
that was my first object. I chose this plastic water bottle. For the second one,
my main object was 50 millimeter lens, Nifty Fifty. I wanted to make sure it's
bold and it's a great lens and I called it the gem between the lenses it is the
gem between lenses. We talked about it before in previous videos and I was
using this plastic little gems I found in a kid's room. Somebody gave it
to us. So I just grabbed it and I was kind of using it with this 50
millimeters lens and it can be any object. It can be your hand, it can be a
book, it can be your shoes, it can be a person, maybe a mysterious person with a
hood so you don't see clearly to the face. There are just tons of options and then
just think of surroundings with a very strong shapes. For the water shot I
chose a flat table and I just placed the water bottle on a flat table. The
table had a straight lines. It's the opposite of circle. For the second shot
the lens was sitting on a patio floor with straight lines and the wall has
strong patterns. It can be any shapes. It can be also a street you know with
leading lines. I'm finding that what works for me is if I have a round object
and I use the opposite for the background you know like square or if I have
some kind of a curves in a background then I just use something very straight,
kind of in the front. It always complements each other. The
opposites, just it works that way for me. Let's talk about light.
You can take movement shots anytime during the day and it's gonna look good
but the best shots will happen during golden hours and it's early in the
morning or late in the evening and you want to make sure that the object is
between you and the Sun or the Sun can be a little bit from the side as well.
Especially when it comes to the water shots it will always look the best. So
let me grab the M50 and let's go through some settings. The lens I'm using here is
the kit lens 15 to 45 millimeters and I have it at the widest 15 millimeters. If
I had even wider lens it would be better but I have only that so that's it. Any
object you choose should be just very nice and close to you. When it comes to
aperture, I'm going to select the smallest aperture F 3.5 because I want
only tiny portion of the image to be sharp to make the shot very interesting.
I want only a little part of the bottle sharp, everything else blurry. If I wanted
a bigger area sharp then I would increase it a bit to f/4 ...4.5...
and 5.I want the sweet bokeh in the front and in the back so I'm going to
keep it at the lowest f-stop I can do which is at 3.5 and you can absolutely
experiment with aperture. You can select very different aperture then I am
selecting. It also will depends on what lens you are using.
...and cut to a different time of the day. I know the first part of the video was
filmed early in the morning during sunrise. What really happened. I simply
didn't have enough time to finish the whole video so the same day, different
location, different time. It is about 6:00 p.m. I skipped the whole day and I'm
finishing it now... so what are we supposed to talk about now? What are we
supposed to talk about? Yeah... focus. And because it is such a fast
movement, you know water running, I had the camera sitting on table on one spot
and I decided to go with manual focus. Very simply because if I would use auto
focus I would be worried that it will be just focusing all over the place and
I want very specific area sharp and everything else blurry. So I went to the
menu and I turn on to focus peaking. Focus peaking is that whatever you are
focusing on, will turn red. It's a great feature, definitely highly recommended if
you are shooting something like that and you have your camera in a stable place
or on a tripod. Let's talk about the shutter speed. For movement like that you
want to use very fast shutter speed and when I started I had it set at 1/200th
of a second which is obviously very slow. The water was blurry and the gems were
just kind of blurry around the lens so I decided to boost it up. I went all the
way up to you 1/1250th of a second and that's where I was happy. I always
suggest to take a test shot, look at the movement. If it's sharp enough, great. If
it's not sharp enough, just go up. This camera can handle that. This camera can
shoot very fast. Last thing you have to setup is the ISO. Now if you want the
image kind of moody, kind of dark then keep the ISO pretty low. If you
feel it's too low though then just bring it up a little bit. You can do that
outdoors no problem and because it is a continuous movement so to get the better
chance of capturing that, that shot, I decided to go from one shot to
continuous. This is how you set it up. Go to menu page one, select drive mode and
instead of single shooting select high-speed continuous.
Okay and once we are done with this shoot then he want to go back to one shot, just
go back to menu like you did right now and instead of continuous just select
one shot. And just a tip. If you have your camera on a tripod and you want to shoot
a movement a little bit away from your camera and you don't have the extra set
of hands or if you are doing a selfie maybe as you're jumping and stuff like
that's a fast movement as well, then just connect your phone to your camera
through Canon Camera Connect app and it's the same thing. You can just press
the shutter right on your phone. So now that we know all the settings let me
show you how I did the first shot. So I had the bottle sitting on a table.
I had my camera on the table as well, just keep it away from the water. The
camera is not waterproof or you can use maybe glass in front of the lens to
protect it and all I was doing was pouring the water on top of the bottle
and since there were holes, the water was getting in and you can pretty much do
that with anything, any kind of object you will find in a house which has
holes. Just pour the water over top, make sure the lens is kind of capturing
what's inside and that's it and the second photo of the lens the same thing.
I just had the lens sitting on a patio. I placed some gems along the lens and I
started throwing the rest of the gems in the shots. Now I know you can do that in
Photoshop as well, you can digitally add the gems there too but isn't that easier
just to do it with the camera?
So that's it. That's how it's done. When it comes to movement, don't limit
yourself to only liquids like water. There is smoke, there is steam, there is
soil, there is dust, there is ground. There's little objects like confetti. You
can throw anything just don't throw the camera. There's everything you can throw.
There's hair movement you know in the shots when person is jumping around.
Just make it very close and personal, just very close. Use the wide lens, wide
aperture to make sure you have that part of the object sharp and everything else
blurry. I've been kicked out of that place
somebody came there with a bicycle and said right my shot and being me I'm
scared to ask him to leave so I don't want to get in trouble. Oshawa can be really
rough, so I moved... The challenge for this month my dear friends is to show
movements in your shots and also precise aperture, precise sharpness, some bokeh and
that would be fantastic. You can upload the photos to the
creative camera challenge Facebook group. Tthe link is in the video description
below. Also you can upload them to your Instagram account and use #zdchallenge8
8 already. I am so looking forward to
seeing your submissions. You have all the way until September 20th 2019. Some of
the most interesting photos will be featured in the next creative camera
challenge video. And if you liked today's video give it thumbs up, subscribe to all
future videos like these. If you have any questions, comments or simply want to say
hello and I will say hello back, you can do so in a comment section below and I
will see everyone in the next video... Cau... Ahoj....