Also had one of the first HD Evos - a 1986 FXR - loved everyone one of the 50,000 miles I put on it and would like another some day. The old triumph in the backlighting film is a great bike. The guy built it out of odds and ends he had in his garage.
Hey Kyle. Manual focus is pretty straight forward. Turn the focus ring until the area you want in focus looks sharp in the viewfinder.. There isn't a 'Should' use it time. If your camera can't focus on something for whatever reason manual focus will save the day.
I am a long term photography enthusiest. Happily, even after many years, I am still learning new tips and techniques thanks to you mike. Thanks for all the effort you put into your teaching. Your ability to teach and entertain makes photography as fun today as it was the first time I picked up a camera!!!!!!!
ha ha +Gerald Thomas the girls do like him. he's one of the nicest guys you could meet - and 5 or 6 years older now. He's a film maker in his own right these days, not small stuff either. I went to see him a couple of days ago directing a full crew of sound people, make up artists, big movie cameras, lighting etc on a music video. - MIKE
Wow! Thats fantastic!! He looks more of the "in front of the camera" type, I would have pegged him for an actor rather than film maker. I wish him nothing but the best!
For fast moving street stuff it's best to set your iso as high as you dare and aperture as small as possible for the light you're in so depth of field is as large as possible. Don't forget to check your shutter speed is fast enough you don't get camera shake though. As a rough guide I'd focus on the one in the middle but whether you get all three in focus or not will depend on how far apart they are and the focal length of your lens. Shorter lenses have greater DOF.
hi mike, i am new in photography and your videos are very helpful. i really like them because you can explain everything so clearly. thanks for your videos, your effort and hard work.
Ha ha - I have a 1999 Triumph Legend which I bought new and have done 75,000 miles on it now. A Honda XR 400 for playing on the dirt and an old 1950 BSA B31 350 for when I need to take it easy :-)
Thank you. That is a very kind and generous comment. Great to know we're helping. Please help us spread the word about our films by 'liking' 'G+ing', sharing them and linking to us on photo forums, Facebook etc
Fantastic! I was nearly brain dead watching sooo many photography videos, until I stumbled across one of yours. I have already watched a few and am inspired once again to get out and experiment. Your videos are to the point, clear, informative, at times funny, and it's just cool to listen to you talk. Nice editing as well. Keep up the great work!
Hey Mike, Thanks a lot for responding. Yes, I've watched that video a number of times, good one! Guess I just have to be more mindful of my shutter speed. I didn't know that the shutter had to be as fast or faster than the focal length of the lens. I've gone back in my pictures and have taken note of the settings on them. So, you set fstop then shutter, then iso right? Seems the first two determine what iso is needed. Just have to keep watching to commit it to memory. TY v much!
Yes - hyperfocal distance is really a big word to describe choosing where to focus. Canon cameras have their a-dep setting which in theory chooses the perfect hyperfocal distance for you. I use Nikons so don't have any experience of it though. - Mike
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Sorry I missed your post. Though Lawrence the skateboarder looks mean and moody here he's one of the nicest guys you could meet. Actually he's a film maker too, mostly music. I think we'll be seeing a lot of his work out there in the world in years to come. Thanks for posting.
Hello Mike. I have a Fujifilm x100s which is a decent compact camera with a 23mm fixed lens. I've had it for more than 6 months & it continuously bamboozled me. I stumbled across your youtube videos & I've slowly started to understand things better. Your video tutorials are the best on the internet & your explanations of tricky subjects are in easy to understand language. Thanks very much. Walter
You are one of the best teachers I've seen. You explain it so simply even us newbies can understand it. Plus I am from the USA, so I like listening to your accent. Keep up the good work. I am trying to learn how to make the flowers with that soft look with one almost in focus. Would love some advice on how to do that. I am using a canon 600D and only using picmonkey to manipulate my photo's. Thanks again for the help.
Thanks Peggy. Just left you link on your last comment. For controlling depth of field which is what you need for the shots you want, please have a look at PT1 of a series on this. They're a few years old but it's still the same... MIKE www.photographycourses.biz/videos/technical/getting-sharp-images/Depth-of-Field-Pt1
Wow! Great videos on where to focus. I've been having a hard time figuring out how aperture and shutter speed come into play when taking group photos. I now a little more now about how to do it. I'd like to know how high and how slow I can go without a tripod for group shots. I will practice what I've learned here today thanks to you!
You are an awesome photographer & enthusiastic teacher. Thank you for your gifts & helpful videos. Wish I learned from a teacher like you when I was @ school. I hardly learned anything there. I appreciate you that you seem to enjoy sharing your knowledge & experience with others not like others who focus on selling their teaching products by sharing their technics shortly in thier videos.
Mike, I am so grateful for the videos you make. The content is great and the way you deliver the concepts is even better. You take us through the whole process we need to follow to apply the concepts. We can "see above your shoulder" as you explain them. I'm a better potographer because of you. Thank you so much!
Hi Jim. As you probably know by now I'm not a tech kind of guy and have never heard of a stagnent focal local lock. If you've tested to make sure it's not camera shake by checking shutter speed v focal length and maybe using a tripod and it makes no difference then yes take it to the menders. I'm guessing but my money is on it being camera shake though. Have a look at this video /watch?v=s2b62BJIw5c
Sir you are providing such complicated literature in so easy to understand manner. I really enjoy your Videos. god bless you. You are great teacher and doing great service for the benefit of millions viewes interested in photography.
Thank you Marko Teullet we're delighted they are helping. Please help us make more videos by sharing them with other photographers on forums etc. -:) MELISSA ( for Mike )
Thank you pirate sting - Please help us spread the word and grow the community by 'liking' 'G+ing', sharing our videos and linking to us on photo forums, Facebook etc
"Compose, focus, shoot." Of course you might have to _recompose_ once you've got your focal point, esp. if you can only focus centrally and you want your subject to be off to one side. I notice with interest what you're saying about the picture darkening. In still imagery I only get this with DOF preview, because the lens stays wide open otherwise until it's time for the shot (unless Pentax is radically different from everything else). I'm not sure what you're shooting the vid with, though I suspect it's a DSLR given your ability to change the aperture. In the case of videography, you're going to run across interesting limitations if you alter apertures because your shutter speed is eventually going to bump up against a lower limit imposed by your frame rate, isn't it? Likewise, if you're shooting action in low light, the high frame rate you want is going to bump up against the need to keep the lens open for exposure. (At least I think that's how it works; I'm a complete beginner in this regard, and trying to reason things out from first principles as video comprising a rapid succession of still images.)
Thank you for this video! So much valuable information within 5 minutes! I wished I saw this video sooner, but now I know why some of my pictures were blurry
Great, Terrific! I have been in a bit of a slump with my photography of late due to frustration with focusing...this clear up several misconceptions I had, will check out the rest of the videos in this series :D Keep up the great work! :D Subscribing to you was a smart idea :)
Yes she is, Mike. :) I personally built it from the frame up last year. "never been without" So, what's the bike you currently ride? I loved the Triumph in your Backlight video.
Thank you George B The 'Moody Skateboarder is becoming a renowned film make in hos own right and i know we'll be seeing his around a lot when he completes Uni. Please help us make more videos by sharing them with other photographers on forums and social media :-)
Props to Lawrence for that amazingly serious glare! I had a good chuckle after 60 seconds of it. Oh... and great information in this video too. :-) Slowly I'm understanding all this more and more.
Thanks Josh. Lawrence is now an extraordinary film maker and is currently working for 20th Century Fox on the new movie about the group Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody. Really cool to have him in a few of my vids... MIKE www.linkedin.com/in/lawrencefishwork/
Mike Browne Very cool! He's going places it sounds like. Hey, I have one more question for you too. To compensate for the low light when shrinking the aperture (so that you could increase the DOF), you said you lowered the shutter speed. Is that basically lowering the frames per second being captured, thus lengthening the amount of time to let light in per frame, thus brightens it a little? If so, how did you change the shutter speed/frames per second in the middle of recording? I wonder how video editing software for post processing would react if your FPS dropped from say 60fps to 30 or 25fps suddenly. Do you have to do anything special in post processing for the video?
I'm french but I love your videos even if sometimes I have difficulty understanding. So well explained and interesting for a beginner like me. You're my favorite photographer by far. I have just two little questions: what lenses (wide-angle and long-focus) are you using at the end with the boy? And how far is the camera from the skateboard and the boy? Sorry if my english is not so well... Thank you so much for your work and keep going on!
Thank you Greyfriars Le Loyal Tricky question because this was all shot on Sony EX1R video camera which has built in zoom lens and no focal lengths marked on a lens barrel like a DSLR / stills camera does. I guess equivalent would be about 150mm for the long shot and about 18mm for the wide shot. I'm hopeless at guessing distance - maybe about 5 or 6 metres long shot and around 4 in the wide. You just have to move yourself to fill the frame and get the composition you want for the focal length you choose. Hope this helped... MIKE
Hey Mike, I have a Canon 30D, it's over six years old. I've had the sensor cleaned and have updated to the latest software. With that said, I've been having focal problems. Certain articles have said that the 30D has stagnent focal local lock, at best. That's been my issue over the years. Rock solid sometimes and soft others. I know you're a Nikon guy but have you heard of these issues with the 30D? Do I need to take in for repair? What do you think? Thanks for all the videos! Jim
can the area mode be specifically selected? Or maybe it depends on the camera. I have a d70 and thought it was centered at say 25% 50% 75% of view finder so if i needed to focus on a subject that was off centre I first focused on the subject,held it and recomposed the frame. Was this wrong so?
Hey Mike I have a question, I'm hoping you'll be able to answer. I was wondering if you wanted to go out and shoot street photography, and you have say three people coming at you and you want to capture them, where exactly do I want to focus? and do I need an aperture like F/11 to get them all in focus? Thanks in advance!
i took group shot photos and everything looked good in that mini lcd screen and when i came home the people on the back were out of focus....i opend the aperture to let a lot of light in that gave me a shallow depth of field....bad mistake..i hope i learn from it
Hi Mike. Before this I watched your iso Vids. So here's a question. When you made the aperture smaller to extend the dof to sharpen skater and skateboard...why didn't you raise the iso instead of slowing the shutter speed on this occasion. Thanks so much Pete
Both higher ISO and slowing shutter speed have their own issues. The first means lower quality, the second means that the subject can move ang get blurry (for example with portraits). The most professional approach in this case would probably be to... bring more light.
Mike I have a question, if you have two people who are in the portrait image, how then would you set the camera to have both individuals crystal clear and the background soft focus?
Thanks Sanjay Prashanth Haven't done any HDR vids yet but there's a couple of long exposure vids - Photography Tips - How To Use an ND Filter - Lee Big Stopper Neutral Density Filter and in last half of Exposure Compensation
:-( Have to shut a few of them down Tony... By the way they're possibly easier to follow on my site where all 300 of them are categorised and searchable. Link below... MIKE www.photographycourses.biz/videos
Ha ha indeed James. Lawrence is now an acclaimed camera man having wotked on a number of big budget productions such as Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocket Man and currently filming stunts for new James Bond movie. He's one inspirational 25 year old and I hope to interview him for the channel someday... Check him out at link below... MIKE www.imdb.com/name/nm6446527/
Hehe yeah, I bet the instruction was "moody," not "murderer," but hey they're pretty close emotions for boys that age. Please tell the gentleman at about 3:30 that another tip when modeling for video is not to chew on anything. He had the look down pat, but I'm afraid the chewing made him look like a cow chewing cud. Then again, I grew up on a farm, so maybe it's just me.
Ha ha. maybe, but now he's a brilliant movie camera man working around the world with some A list names. Hope to catch up with him again next week.. MIKE
Thank you Mohammed Al Aufi Please visit www.photographycourses.biz/contact.html and use the contact form. Melissa will forward messages that need my attention onto me.
Also had one of the first HD Evos - a 1986 FXR - loved everyone one of the 50,000 miles I put on it and would like another some day. The old triumph in the backlighting film is a great bike. The guy built it out of odds and ends he had in his garage.
Hey Kyle. Manual focus is pretty straight forward. Turn the focus ring until the area you want in focus looks sharp in the viewfinder.. There isn't a 'Should' use it time. If your camera can't focus on something for whatever reason manual focus will save the day.
I am a long term photography enthusiest. Happily, even after many years, I am still learning new tips and techniques thanks to you mike. Thanks for all the effort you put into your teaching. Your ability to teach and entertain makes photography as fun today as it was the first time I picked up a camera!!!!!!!
You are without a doubt the best teacher I have ever had
Thank you so much flor all the time time and effort you put into your lessons
seen a lot of videos and read a lot on different topics. Yours are lucid and pertinent. THANK YOU
Best explanation of depth of field I have seen. Thank you Mike!
Lawrence looks like the type of kid you want to keep your daughter away from. Lol!!!!! 😄
ha ha +Gerald Thomas the girls do like him. he's one of the nicest guys you could meet - and 5 or 6 years older now. He's a film maker in his own right these days, not small stuff either. I went to see him a couple of days ago directing a full crew of sound people, make up artists, big movie cameras, lighting etc on a music video. - MIKE
Wow! Thats fantastic!! He looks more of the "in front of the camera" type, I would have pegged him for an actor rather than film maker.
I wish him nothing but the best!
Thanks Jamie. I'll see what we can come up with re portrait photography.
For fast moving street stuff it's best to set your iso as high as you dare and aperture as small as possible for the light you're in so depth of field is as large as possible. Don't forget to check your shutter speed is fast enough you don't get camera shake though. As a rough guide I'd focus on the one in the middle but whether you get all three in focus or not will depend on how far apart they are and the focal length of your lens. Shorter lenses have greater DOF.
Wow a year of photography and you made me understand it in less that five minutes. I kept getting the aperture/light level/dof rules mixed up
hi mike,
i am new in photography and your videos are very helpful. i really like them because you can explain everything so clearly. thanks for your videos, your effort and hard work.
Ha ha - I have a 1999 Triumph Legend which I bought new and have done 75,000 miles on it now. A Honda XR 400 for playing on the dirt and an old 1950 BSA B31 350 for when I need to take it easy :-)
Thank you for your passion in teaching. You make complicated things so simple and comprehensible.
Thank you. That is a very kind and generous comment. Great to know we're helping. Please help us spread the word about our films by 'liking' 'G+ing', sharing them and linking to us on photo forums, Facebook etc
Fantastic! I was nearly brain dead watching sooo many photography videos, until I stumbled across one of yours. I have already watched a few and am inspired once again to get out and experiment. Your videos are to the point, clear, informative, at times funny, and it's just cool to listen to you talk. Nice editing as well. Keep up the great work!
Hey Mike,
Thanks a lot for responding. Yes, I've watched that video a number of times, good one! Guess I just have to be more mindful of my shutter speed. I didn't know that the shutter had to be as fast or faster than the focal length of the lens. I've gone back in my pictures and have taken note of the settings on them. So, you set fstop then shutter, then iso right? Seems the first two determine what iso is needed. Just have to keep watching to commit it to memory. TY v much!
Yes - hyperfocal distance is really a big word to describe choosing where to focus. Canon cameras have their a-dep setting which in theory chooses the perfect hyperfocal distance for you. I use Nikons so don't have any experience of it though. - Mike
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Thanks Mike! I watch all your videos! great teaching man. I have taken your words to not worrying about what people think, but getting the shot!
Sorry I missed your post. Though Lawrence the skateboarder looks mean and moody here he's one of the nicest guys you could meet. Actually he's a film maker too, mostly music. I think we'll be seeing a lot of his work out there in the world in years to come. Thanks for posting.
Hello Mike. I have a Fujifilm x100s which is a decent compact camera with a 23mm fixed lens. I've had it for more than 6 months & it continuously bamboozled me. I stumbled across your youtube videos & I've slowly started to understand things better. Your video tutorials are the best on the internet & your explanations of tricky subjects are in easy to understand language. Thanks very much. Walter
thank you +Walter Scott for the kind words! please if can share it to help us make more films -MELISSA ( for Mike )
You are one of the best teachers I've seen. You explain it so simply even us newbies can understand it. Plus I am from the USA, so I like listening to your accent. Keep up the good work. I am trying to learn how to make the flowers with that soft look with one almost in focus. Would love some advice on how to do that. I am using a canon 600D and only using picmonkey to manipulate my photo's. Thanks again for the help.
Thanks Peggy. Just left you link on your last comment. For controlling depth of field which is what you need for the shots you want, please have a look at PT1 of a series on this. They're a few years old but it's still the same... MIKE
www.photographycourses.biz/videos/technical/getting-sharp-images/Depth-of-Field-Pt1
Mike browne your the best! Thanks for ur videos
Thank you Debi. Is that your bike? I've been riding them since I was 13 and never been without one since.
Wow! Great videos on where to focus. I've been having a hard time figuring out how aperture and shutter speed come into play when taking group photos. I now a little more now about how to do it. I'd like to know how high and how slow I can go without a tripod for group shots. I will practice what I've learned here today thanks to you!
You Are Such A PERFECT Teacher! True Teaching And Photography Talent!
Thank you +One Mobile that's very kind of you - MIKE :-)
You are an awesome photographer & enthusiastic teacher. Thank you for your gifts & helpful videos. Wish I learned from a teacher like you when I was @ school. I hardly learned anything there. I appreciate you that you seem to enjoy sharing your knowledge & experience with others not like others who focus on selling their teaching products by sharing their technics shortly in thier videos.
Mike, I am so grateful for the videos you make. The content is great and the way you deliver the concepts is even better. You take us through the whole process we need to follow to apply the concepts. We can "see above your shoulder" as you explain them. I'm a better potographer because of you. Thank you so much!
Thank you Maria Murillo Please help me keep the vids coming by sharing them around with other photographers. best wishes... MIKE :-)
Hi Jim. As you probably know by now I'm not a tech kind of guy and have never heard of a stagnent focal local lock. If you've tested to make sure it's not camera shake by checking shutter speed v focal length and maybe using a tripod and it makes no difference then yes take it to the menders. I'm guessing but my money is on it being camera shake though. Have a look at this video /watch?v=s2b62BJIw5c
Excellent vids. I've been shooting 35mm since the sixties. Now making the move to digital. Great work. Thanks for so much info
Absolutely superb Mike!!
Sir you are providing such complicated literature in so easy to understand manner. I really enjoy your Videos. god bless you. You are great teacher and doing great service for the benefit of millions viewes interested in photography.
Thank you Shashi Moghe I'm happy to help. Please help me make more by sharing the videos with other photographers on forums, social media etc...
VERY NICE TUTORIAL!!!
Really helps me a lot on portrait photography..thank you so much sir mike!!!
from Philippines here..
Sooo good. Watching your vids, I am finally beginning to piece together the differences between aperture, iso, and shutter speed.
Great news Brian Mitts - MIKE :-)
I been following you for a while ... About a year now and every video is awesome and perfect explain thank you and yeah I need more videos lol
Thank you Marko Teullet we're delighted they are helping. Please help us make more videos by sharing them with other photographers on forums etc. -:) MELISSA ( for Mike )
Thank you Jequita
Laurence scared the crap out of me.
Thank you
Thank you very much. i have got lot of ideas from you for my photography
Great video. I am an amateur so videos like your are very helpful to watch before I go out being a weekend warrior. Thanks for all you do.
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"Compose, focus, shoot." Of course you might have to _recompose_ once you've got your focal point, esp. if you can only focus centrally and you want your subject to be off to one side.
I notice with interest what you're saying about the picture darkening. In still imagery I only get this with DOF preview, because the lens stays wide open otherwise until it's time for the shot (unless Pentax is radically different from everything else). I'm not sure what you're shooting the vid with, though I suspect it's a DSLR given your ability to change the aperture. In the case of videography, you're going to run across interesting limitations if you alter apertures because your shutter speed is eventually going to bump up against a lower limit imposed by your frame rate, isn't it? Likewise, if you're shooting action in low light, the high frame rate you want is going to bump up against the need to keep the lens open for exposure.
(At least I think that's how it works; I'm a complete beginner in this regard, and trying to reason things out from first principles as video comprising a rapid succession of still images.)
Thank you for this video! So much valuable information within 5 minutes! I wished I saw this video sooner, but now I know why some of my pictures were blurry
Glad it was helpful!
Great, Terrific!
I have been in a bit of a slump with my photography of late due to frustration with focusing...this clear up several misconceptions I had, will check out the rest of the videos in this series :D
Keep up the great work! :D
Subscribing to you was a smart idea :)
Good info, interestingly and enthusiastically presented. I like the Open University feel. Many thanks.
I love your videos, you have class. Great explanation and examples!
Hi Mike, your video makes things very easy to be understood
thank you +Kensi KA glad you like it - Melissa pp Mike
Yes she is, Mike. :) I personally built it from the frame up last year. "never been without" So, what's the bike you currently ride? I loved the Triumph in your Backlight video.
Learned something new today. Thanks, Mike Browne!
Pleasure ***** Learning something new everyday is what life's all about..
Excellent video! Fresh presentation
great information, and very well done. I will be watching more of your videos. LOL the moody skateboarder. He certainly played the part. :)
Thank you George B The 'Moody Skateboarder is becoming a renowned film make in hos own right and i know we'll be seeing his around a lot when he completes Uni. Please help us make more videos by sharing them with other photographers on forums and social media :-)
Props to Lawrence for that amazingly serious glare! I had a good chuckle after 60 seconds of it. Oh... and great information in this video too. :-) Slowly I'm understanding all this more and more.
Thanks Josh. Lawrence is now an extraordinary film maker and is currently working for 20th Century Fox on the new movie about the group Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody. Really cool to have him in a few of my vids... MIKE
www.linkedin.com/in/lawrencefishwork/
Mike Browne Very cool! He's going places it sounds like.
Hey, I have one more question for you too. To compensate for the low light when shrinking the aperture (so that you could increase the DOF), you said you lowered the shutter speed. Is that basically lowering the frames per second being captured, thus lengthening the amount of time to let light in per frame, thus brightens it a little? If so, how did you change the shutter speed/frames per second in the middle of recording?
I wonder how video editing software for post processing would react if your FPS dropped from say 60fps to 30 or 25fps suddenly. Do you have to do anything special in post processing for the video?
Thank you - sorry i missed your post
Very clear explanation. Thank you, Mike.
Glad it was helpful!
very clear and easy to understand tutorial. thank you!
Thank you Peter SM, glad you found it helpful - Melissa PP Mike
Really helpfull. thx from Sweden!
I enjoy your videos, they always explain in nice and easy to understand technic, thank you.
Thank you Siyabonga Shange Please help me make more videos by sharing them with other photographers on forums, Facebook, Flickr etc. - MIKE :-)
Mike can you make a video on how to or when you should use manual focus please. thanks
Focus and take the shot without waiting, best advice, no wonder I get blurry eyes :)
My pleasure
I'm french but I love your videos even if sometimes I have difficulty understanding.
So well explained and interesting for a beginner like me. You're my favorite photographer by far.
I have just two little questions: what lenses (wide-angle and long-focus) are you using at the end with the boy? And how far is the camera from the skateboard and the boy?
Sorry if my english is not so well...
Thank you so much for your work and keep going on!
Thank you Greyfriars Le Loyal Tricky question because this was all shot on Sony EX1R video camera which has built in zoom lens and no focal lengths marked on a lens barrel like a DSLR / stills camera does. I guess equivalent would be about 150mm for the long shot and about 18mm for the wide shot. I'm hopeless at guessing distance - maybe about 5 or 6 metres long shot and around 4 in the wide. You just have to move yourself to fill the frame and get the composition you want for the focal length you choose. Hope this helped... MIKE
Dude gr8 stuff love your tutorials
Awesome teacher ......1000 Likes .....
Hey Mike,
I have a Canon 30D, it's over six years old. I've had the sensor cleaned and have updated to the latest software. With that said, I've been having focal problems. Certain articles have said that the 30D has stagnent focal local lock, at best. That's been my issue over the years. Rock solid sometimes and soft others. I know you're a Nikon guy but have you heard of these issues with the 30D? Do I need to take in for repair? What do you think? Thanks for all the videos! Jim
I love your videos!
Ha Ha - never seen the Hangover Movie but Googled it and kinda see what you mean :-) Thanks for your comment....
can the area mode be specifically selected? Or maybe it depends on the camera. I have a d70 and thought it was centered at say 25% 50% 75% of view finder so if i needed to focus on a subject that was off centre I first focused on the subject,held it and recomposed the frame. Was this wrong so?
i just love your videos!
Very Informative Videos..I learned a lot.,Thanks Sir Mike..Greeting from Philippines
No worries alex negre - Please help us spread the word by sharing and G+ing etc on any of my vids you like...
you are very helpful sir
Hey Mike I have a question, I'm hoping you'll be able to answer. I was wondering if you wanted to go out and shoot street photography, and you have say three people coming at you and you want to capture them, where exactly do I want to focus? and do I need an aperture like F/11 to get them all in focus? Thanks in advance!
Mike or Lorna's? :-)
i took group shot photos and everything looked good in that mini lcd screen and when i came home the people on the back were out of focus....i opend the aperture to let a lot of light in that gave me a shallow depth of field....bad mistake..i hope i learn from it
Wow, i didn't know that you are also a photographer...Are you the guy in "Hang Over" movie? Btw, it's very nice Videos and very helpfull, thank's...
Hi, Mike) Did you used a parfocal lenses while shooting moody skateboarder? The thing is i see no breathing while focusing from boy on board
Hi Станислав. No it was just a normal lens. Sorry not sure what you mean by "no breathing while focusing from boy on board"... MIKE
Hi Mike. Before this I watched your iso Vids. So here's a question. When you made the aperture smaller to extend the dof to sharpen skater and skateboard...why didn't you raise the iso instead of slowing the shutter speed on this occasion. Thanks so much
Pete
Both higher ISO and slowing shutter speed have their own issues. The first means lower quality, the second means that the subject can move ang get blurry (for example with portraits). The most professional approach in this case would probably be to... bring more light.
Sony XDCAM EX PMW-EX1
Mike I have a question, if you have two people who are in the portrait image, how then would you set the camera to have both individuals crystal clear and the background soft focus?
Linda T - have them side by side is the easiest way. I've noted your video request and .......
Which camera do you use for filming your videos?
Excellent
Hi Mike Browne.....ur dng a great job...... which camera model that ur using???
Thank you Sanjay Prashanth it's a Nikon D300
thanks for the reply brother
I need to knw, how to get HDR photos & Long exposure photos..... I know there is so many videos in youtube Bt ur tutorials are much easy to understand
Thanks Sanjay Prashanth Haven't done any HDR vids yet but there's a couple of long exposure vids - Photography Tips - How To Use an ND Filter - Lee Big Stopper Neutral Density Filter and in last half of Exposure Compensation
Thanks Mr.Mike, i hope ur HDR photography...thanks again for the link
Great video
:-) *****
this is brilliant
Thank you *****
thanx...
The more I watch these videos the more I want to buy a dslr camera. I need to stop.
Ok, thanks
I ran out of virtual memory loading up my browser full of tabs for the next one of his videos I wanted to watch.
:-( Have to shut a few of them down Tony... By the way they're possibly easier to follow on my site where all 300 of them are categorised and searchable. Link below... MIKE
www.photographycourses.biz/videos
Lawrence is burning holes in the back of mikes head with his eyes
damn, i had to watch the first 2 minutes two times. Can't follow your explanation because i lost myself in these beautiful eyes
lawrence looked like young anakin slicing obiwan with his eyes （whom is another great teacher） but dressed like a sith.
Ha ha indeed James. Lawrence is now an acclaimed camera man having wotked on a number of big budget productions such as Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocket Man and currently filming stunts for new James Bond movie. He's one inspirational 25 year old and I hope to interview him for the channel someday... Check him out at link below... MIKE
www.imdb.com/name/nm6446527/
i like Lawrence :)
He creeped me out haha;D
Hehe yeah, I bet the instruction was "moody," not "murderer," but hey they're pretty close emotions for boys that age. Please tell the gentleman at about 3:30 that another tip when modeling for video is not to chew on anything. He had the look down pat, but I'm afraid the chewing made him look like a cow chewing cud. Then again, I grew up on a farm, so maybe it's just me.
lawrance looks like he's gonna rob me and my camera.
Ha ha. maybe, but now he's a brilliant movie camera man working around the world with some A list names. Hope to catch up with him again next week.. MIKE
I think he is pissed off, because Mike stole his skateboard...
nice... can I have your email sir ?
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What r u chewing bro?
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