Camera Settings

Question 1

What’s shutter speed?

Answer 1

1/30 means the shutter open for one thirtyth of a second. Effects motion blur. Sports photographers would shoot high. Blurry lights would be low.

Question 2

What’s the 180 degree shutter rule?

Answer 2

Bottom number of shutter speed setting = frame rate x2

Eg:

Frame rate = 24fps
Shutter speed = 1/48 (or closest camera will get.

Frame rate = 60 fps
Shutter speed = 1/120

Question 3

What does aperture do?

Answer 3

Let’s in light

Question 4

What kind of f stop is a small amount of aperture light?

Answer 4

Higher f stop

Question 5

What kind of f stop is a large amount of aperture light?

Answer 5

Lower f stop

Question 6

True or false the larger the number the smaller the aperture?

Answer 6

True

Question 7

What’s the depth of field?

Answer 7

The amount of background in focus.

Question 8

The wider your aperture the lower your what?

Answer 8

F stop (lots of light in) and the shallower your depth of field will be.

Question 9

The narrower your aperture the higher the what will be?

Answer 9

F stop - (deeper depth of field).

Question 10

How do you get a blurrier (shallow) background?

Answer 10

Lower your f stop

Question 11

As well as the f stop what else impacts how blurry the background is?

Answer 11

How close or far you are from subject

Question 12

Does lowering the f stop make it brighter?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

Why would you want a product to have a blurry background?

Answer 13

To make the product the star of the show. Make sure you don’t go too low. The product has to be fully in focus. Sometimes you might not want the background to be really blurry eg if you want ti show tiles

Question 14

What’s ISO?

Answer 14

Sensitivity to light

Question 15

A high ISO is?

Answer 15

Brighter (also noisier.)

Question 16

A low ISO is?

Answer 16

Darker

Question 17

Why do you put the ISO as low as possible?

Answer 17

To reduce noise

Question 18

What number ISO should you try not to go higher than?

Answer 18

1000 (but sometimes you will have too)

Question 19

What’s the zebra feature on a camera?

Answer 19

Shows what’s overexposed

Question 20

Is it better to be over or under exposed?

Answer 20

Under exposed (won’t lose detail)

Question 21

What does a warmer and cooler temperature look like?

Answer 21

Cool = blue light
Warm = orange light

Question 22

What’s Kelvin?

Answer 22

Kelvin (K) = warmth of a light source.

Question 23

What’s a lower kelvin value?

Answer 23

Warmer orange light. Eg flame is 1800k

White balance would be 1800k

Question 24

What’s a higher kelvin value?

Answer 24

Cool blue light eg 8000k is the sky

Question 25

Why is it good to know the colour temperature of your lights?

Answer 25

So you can set your white balance to that

Question 26

What order should you set your camera?

Answer 26

1) Set frame rate - eg 60fps
2) set shutter speed - 1/2x framerate = 1/120
3) Set aperture - depending on how blurry you want. Lower f stop is blurry. Higher f stop is focused
4) ISO - to properly expose image. Higher - brighter image. Darker - lower image.
5) White balance - set to kelvin (value of lights)