Nice dog and cute kid. I quite enjoy the fading in and out, different angles and quality is great. What gear did you use to film? Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Roberto, is used my 7D with 70-200 f2.8 IS (handheld) Getting focus was a bit of a mission but I feel it gives the clip a nice raw look. Slight grade in FCP.
Switch off the AUTO ISO or AUTO SHUTTER/APERTURE features.
Take note of the 180 Degrees shutter rule.
" The physical shutter in a film camera has the shape of a half circle (as you can see in the animation). This is defined as a 180 degree shutter angle, makes perfect sense since a complete circle would be 360 degrees… In order for the film to feed through the gate while properly exposing each frame of film, the disc will have to rotate one complete revolution for every frame. Therefore if you are shooting 1fps, the frame would be exposed to the open part of the disc (allowing light to hit that specific frame of film) for only half of its complete revolution or in other words 1/2 shutter speed. During the other half of the disc revolution (while the closed half of the disc is blocking that frame of film) the next frame of film is being fed into the gate ready for its opportunity to be exposed. So, since we now understand that when shooting at 1fps, the shutter speed would be 1/2, then you basically just carry that math on! 24fps = 1/48, 25fps = 1/50, 30fps = 1/60, 60fps = 1/120, 120fps = 1/240 and so on…"
Why I tell you this is because I can clearly see you're using a high shutter speed due to the jerky movement of your son and dog in the video. (This is always being referred to as the "Saving Private Ryan look") When you want rough, hard jerky movements it would be great, but it doesn't quite work for your subject choice. So in order to get softer, more natural looking movements follow the 180 degrees shutter rule. I know the 7D's and 5D's do not have a 1/48th shutter for 24fps, but just use 1/50, its close enough and the few frames missing will not be noticed by the eye.
Switch off the AUTO ISO or AUTO SHUTTER/APERTURE features.
Take note of the 180 Degrees shutter rule.
" The physical shutter in a film camera has the shape of a half circle (as you can see in the animation). This is defined as a 180 degree shutter angle, makes perfect sense since a complete circle would be 360 degrees… In order for the film to feed through the gate while properly exposing each frame of film, the disc will have to rotate one complete revolution for every frame. Therefore if you are shooting 1fps, the frame would be exposed to the open part of the disc (allowing light to hit that specific frame of film) for only half of its complete revolution or in other words 1/2 shutter speed. During the other half of the disc revolution (while the closed half of the disc is blocking that frame of film) the next frame of film is being fed into the gate ready for its opportunity to be exposed. So, since we now understand that when shooting at 1fps, the shutter speed would be 1/2, then you basically just carry that math on! 24fps = 1/48, 25fps = 1/50, 30fps = 1/60, 60fps = 1/120, 120fps = 1/240 and so on…"
Why I tell you this is because I can clearly see you're using a high shutter speed due to the jerky movement of your son and dog in the video. (This is always being referred to as the "Saving Private Ryan look") When you want rough, hard jerky movements it would be great, but it doesn't quite work for your subject choice. So in order to get softer, more natural looking movements follow the 180 degrees shutter rule. I know the 7D's and 5D's do not have a 1/48th shutter for 24fps, but just use 1/50, its close enough and the few frames missing will not be noticed by the eye.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for the comments Fred. Although this was purely a spur of the moment thing call it "Guerilla" shooting if you want. I profess I'm not really one for following any hard and fast rules. Don't get me wrong there is a place for it. If I remember correctly the camera was on Creative Auto in any event lol.
Concerning that SS rule/guideline... How true and relevant does that hold for a sensor based cam (which is essentially shutterfree, although the sensor update path may be construed as the "sensor" in this case)
According to another blog I follow (prolost), their suggestion is to adjust your shutterspeed according to the edge definition you need, i.e. a slow shutterspeed essentially "blurs" the edges (likeit would on a photo) where a high shutterspeed gives crisp sharp edges.
... or are these two completely different issues that we need to mix together for the final result?
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