Hey what's up everybody? Miguel Quiles
here and in this episode of The
Breakdown, I'm going to show you how to
shoot slow-motion video using the Sony a7S II.
Welcome back to The Breakdown. I'm Miguel
Quiles and I'm here in the studio today
with Stephanie. You can check out her
Instagram in the description below.
We're actually going to show you how to
shoot slow-motion video with the a7S II.
Now this is something that I do
whenever I'm photographing models. We
often need behind-the-scenes video of
what's happening during the photoshoot and
as a rule of thumb, things typically look
more epic and more awesome when they're
shot in slow motion. So I'll have
behind-the-scenes clips and then I'll
have a slow-motion video that's playing
somewhere in there that just, kind of,
adds a little visual interest to the shot.
So we're here in the studio, we just
wrapped up a photoshoot and I want to
show you guys how I set this thing up. So,
first and foremost, on the a7s II you're
going to want to click on the menu
button...
and in the very first menu, you're
going to go down to tab number two and
for your File Format you're going to
choose XAVC S HD. Once you've chosen
that File Format, you're going to go down
to the Record Setting and you're going
to choose either 120p 100M or
120p 60M. Depending on your memory card
you may not get to 100M. I have a
150M card that's in this one
so it will let me shoot at this 100M
speed. We're going to select that.
The next thing that you're going to do
is, you're going to hit the Function button.
Once you hit the Function button,
down here in the bottom right corner,
you're going to select that option.
This is the Movie/HFR menu. If you scroll
through this, you can choose Shutter
priority, manual. But you want to pay
particular attention to this HFR setting
towards the very bottom.
I usually choose HFR M, for manual, which
gives you full control of the aperture,
shutter speed and allows you to be able
to adjust those up and down.
So we're going to select HFR M
and at this point we're all set up.
We're gonna shoot this at 1/250th of a
second. As a rule of thumb, you want to
make sure that your shutter speed is
double whatever your framerate is. So if
you're shooting at 120p, double would be 240p.
Of course, there isn't 240p on there,
so we're going to go to
the next best thing, which is 1/250th.
We're at 1.4 for the aperture
and ISO of 250.
We have the scene lit
with one single LED light in the studio
and I'm actually using a Benro monopod
to keep things steady as we
shoot this particular video.
For the lens,
I'm using a 50mm 1.4 from Sony.
This is going to help so that, when
it's being shot in slow-motion, shooting
wide open,
it's going to give her hair this
really beautiful, very dreamy look.
With that being said, let's go ahead and
shoot some slow-motion clips. We're going
to make Stephanie look awesome.
I'm manually focusing this particular shot using
focus peaking, so I can make sure that
everything is nice and sharp. We've got the
shot framed up.
I'm going to give you a countdown
Stephanie, we'll do "one, two, three" and when
I tell you that, just keep, like,
vibing from one pose to another.
Here we go.
One, two, three.
Perfect. So now that we've shot this clip,
I'm going to go ahead and
play this back.
The really nice thing
about this, is that, once you shoot this
clip, when you go to the playback, you
actually see the video in slow-motion, in
the camera. So you don't have to wait to
go back to your computer and wait to
process it in a program like Premier
or Final Cut.
You can actually see the slow-motion
clip on the back of the camera. I'll go
ahead and flip it around so you can see it.
We'll hit play.
I'll put this up on the screen,
so you guys can
see it full screen, what it looks like.
Really easy, beautiful way to shoot
slow-motion video. Using the a7S II in
the studio.
So if you photograph people, you
photograph subjects, models, whatever the
case might be,
you want to spice up your
behind-the-scenes videos, it's a very simple,
very easy way for you to be able to do that.
Alright everybody, so there you have it
really super easy to shoot slow-motion
video using the a7 SII, and this is
actually a feature that's available in a
number of Sony cameras, for example I
have the RX 100 Mk 4, and high frame
rate shooting is available in that
camera as well. So what I would recommend to you
is to check your camera's instruction
manual, look for high frame rate
recording and it will tell you how to go
ahead and set it up in your specific
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