Videographers… STOP Following this Advice!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2022
- There is some bad advice some TH-camrs give, that beginner videographers follow which is making them look amateur. This video will help you understand your camera settings fully and make you a better videographer!
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#aperture #depthoffield #focalplane - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
FYI I love all the TH-camrs and have learned a lot from them :) What was your favourite tip?! :)
My advice, is don't poke the pirate… could hurt us from seeing your great content! Hate to see ya “disappear”!!
@Emotion Air ya know man. When ya take on the bigger TH-cam folks. It’s happened man. One day they just stop showing up in your feed. Like Epic Light, I have to seek out there channel. Even tho I’m subbed and bell, still, they don’t show up. I’m now threatening, the opposite. I dig the channel. I’d hate to see it go away.
Yeah Peter Mckinnons advices are the worst I've seen so far. Plus in everyvideo he features a lousy, so called "Epic Buttery Smooth Cinematic" coffee-making video.
❤ed when the BGM kicks in at 4:41
Ps: We are use to the coffee in those advice video, its nice to see some breads for a change.
well I used to think that a high number mm lens is better than a lower one xD
The Peter McKinnon part was hilarious hahaha... still LMAO. Great informative video too.
Haha great stuff. Thank you 🤩🎥
Lmfao he even got him down to the exact sweater he would wear 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hoenstly I burst out laughing that was so funny 😂😂😂 well played Mr Holland sir
😂 haha thanks Sam 🙏🏻🎥
@@SamHolland bwaaats up everybody!!!
Another videographer told me you don't need to get every shot to look amazing and cinematic sometimes is important to just actually get the shot
Any shot is better than no shot! 👌🏻
Exactly my thoughts for my wedding films!
Amen! #CaseyNeistat
Cinematic means:
Tell a story in moving pictures.
Full Stop.
All the rest is creative choices. You can very well make a whole feature film with a toy camcorder mickey mouse edition and it can still be trhilling if the story you are telling is worth it and well told.
@@MarioSNES89 To youtube standards the least cinematic guy on youtube.
To real pros and true artists standards of filmmaking, the most cinematic guy on youtube.
Watch the film 'Roma' - nearly every shot is stopped down with a wide depth of field. Watch the film 'Some Kind of Heaven' - nearly every shot is static/on sticks with no camera movement. They're both incredible works of photography that go against this idea of 'cinematic'. Context and motivation in service of the narrative / purpose of the work is everything!
At least someone who understands- I have always been fighting with all these young successful youtubers on how they use their wording. It is just saddening to me.
Thank you!
It’s so important to actually consider how much depth of field is appropriate for the shot rather than assuming _more blur = more pro._ I shoot on MFT and virtually never go below f/2 even at wide angles.
I’ll never understand why, for example, a vlogger would travel to a beautiful, exotic location just to blur out everything but their face-often including their own ears 😂
Haha their own ears! Precisely. Thanks for watching 🤩🙏🏻🎥
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O all greatest movies in cinema history up until now, have over 60% of their runtime shot in deep focus. The rest features just a half with very little out of focus background, almost everything still recognizable, and under 20% of all their shots actually feature reak Bokeh shallow depth of field.
As a British Canadian I'm sort of entertained that your Canadian impression sounds aggressively American 😅😅 Fantastic video and so helpful! Love your channel.
😂 haha I do apologise… eh! 😜🇨🇦
Thank you! 🙏🏻🎥
Haha! The "Super Famous TH-camr"... Great acting mate!
😂 the 🇨🇦 accent needs some work! 🙏🏻🎥
This was such a fantastic explanation. I'm also a professional videographer but you've articulated things that I've discovered on my own, but never really knew how to explain! Well done man
Ah thanks Braden. It’s hard to teach without being boring isn’t it 😂 I’m pleased you enjoyed it. The next one is gonna be fun! 😂🎥
The Peter Mckinnon skit was hilarious, and spot on! Then the little plug for his VND filters after....love it!
I don’t know who you’re talking about! 😜
Haha thanks James! 🤩🙏🏻🎥
Greatly appreciate this honestly! I am very guilty of keeping my camera wide open. Will definitely keep this in mind.
The shots help a lot to enhance the quality of the video, but the way you tell the story is more important.
Thanks for the advice!
Great video, great use of humour & skits! There's a lot of tropes about how to get great footage, but as you say context is the most important reference! There's a lot of videos explaining aperture & expoure control, and comparing depth & separation; this is a really concise explanation and your examples definitely add a lot of context! Great stuff!
Hey chris. Thank you. I’m pleased you enjoyed it 🤩🙏🏻🎥
Beautiful videos Sam! I learned a lot from you. Awesome job!
That focal plane commentary, wildly good! I have been playing with cameras and learning for 15 years or so, and that bit of your video really explained something I never completely understood. I've done it inadvertently but never intentionally. Thank you very much for the explanation!
So pleased you found this helpful 🤩🙏🏻 always room to learn if you’re willing 💪🏻🎥 thanks for watching and commenting
The worst is we got some youtubers selling cinematography classes (while never setting foot on a film set) and in one of his videos he did not even know why sony released an 18mm...i guest the guy never heard of Terence Malick lol...i just feel sad for people who bought his courses! I think its just overhype marketing / salesguy these days....if you listen to these folks every 2 months you will be changing GEAR and Brand haha...
That PM impression was spot on 😆
Mate this was awesome 😂
Not only a funny video but great advice too.
You deserve a bazillion subscribers yourself.
Haha thanks brother 🙏🏻🤩🎥
Took me a while to realize that it’s the dynamic range and color that makes the shot (and of course the proper focal lengths) and not the blurry backgrounds.
Appreciate the work you put into making these 👏
Thank you so much! I appreciate you watching and commenting 🤩🙏🏻🎥 I hope it helped
Honestly best video I’ve seen to creating better content! Thank you Sam, only starting and I’m literally bingeing all your content. Keep up the great work 🙌
Hey. So pleased you enjoyed it and I’m pleased you’re learning. Stay tuned for plenty more on the way soon! 🤩🙏🏻🎥
Great video Sam. Love the humour..always makes me smile. Your pace is just great and advice is very valuable. Keep up the good work👍
Thank you Steven 🤩🙏🏻🎥
I've been a sub for a long time and I have to say, and I promise its meant to be the biggest compliment, you have really come an insanely long way. This content is legit next level. Your hard work surely shows man. Congrats
very insightful. i’m just recently starting to learn about film making and camera settings so this is incredibly helpful
Hey. Glad these videos are helping 🤩🙏🏻🎥 stay tuned for plenty more
Dude the way you used bread to teach focal plane was amazing. Thanks for another awesome video.
I’m glad it helped 🤩 🍞 🎥
🔥🔥🔥 thanks! Love your videos!
Loving your content you make me laugh😂 great points as well, I’ve started to use higher apertures so I can get more of the subject in focus
Great video. Unfortunately, for those who cant afford cameras with dual iso (yet) and are always shooting at night (weddings, debut, promenades and such) using the lowest aperture is always a lifesaver! Its like what you said, you just have to experiment with the focal length and have the subject go further away from the camera to reduce the blur of the foreground and background. In my case, i use 24mm, 35mm, and even 50mm and just make the subject go further to reduce the blur. This is what majority of TH-camrs arent sharing thats why hats off you man. Great job!
Thank you 🤩🙏🏻🎥
Your explanation about DOF was simply on point!
I've always had difficulty explaining this topic to others, but now i can simply show this video to them.
😂 I’m pleased you enjoyed it. Thank you 🙏🏻🤩🎥
If u consider that u can explain the process of videoediting by comparing it to preparing a meal in the kitchen as a chef, then, the explaination of the focal plane with slices of bread, works perfectly and is just amazing! Well done!!
New to your channel but glad I came across it. Really informative videos and presented very well. You deserve more subscribers.
Thank you. Great to have you here 🤩🙏🏻🎥
Fab video! Really clear, great examples and well presented! Thanks 😊
Thank you 🤩🙏🏻🎥
my photography has improved the more I pulled away from youtubers. cinematic gets confused and equated with slow motion and shallow depth of field so much that a lot of new young photographers do it without understanding the how and why to composing shots for THEIR vision. Ironically, they lose their vision for the sake of shooting like their favorite youtuber, and mimicry is not creativity. Picked up a lot of tips from you but at the end of the day, just get out there and shoot and find YOUR voice.
Totally! 👌🏻🎥
Another great video mate. Done is better than perfect sometimes.
The bread focus plain thing is amazing!
😂 thanks 🍞🥖
After seeing your title and thumbnail, my initial thought was "all right, show me how incredibly smart advice you've got..." now I'm about to watch it. Let's see how long I can stick around.
All right. Fair enough, it can be useful for someone starting out, so you've got credits for that. And yeah, I understand you need to get people's attention with clickbait obviously. All and all, fair play, well done and keep pushing it! ;)
your level of knowledge is obviously heart warming. i feel ur youtube channel pushes you to improve every day and you derive joy giving potential advice and tips in cinematography mistakes you've also made while growing so that others doesn't. and ur message delivery is outstanding. @samholland
I had to LOL when you were making fun. So many channels channeling Peter with the antics. I think next time make fun on all the hacks making coffee. When Peter did it, it was cool for a minute and when everyone started making cinematic cofffee bits it got dumb fast. But I digress. Excellent video and info. I'm a half a pro but this video opened my eyes to a lot. Thank You.
😂 haha thank you. I’m pleased you enjoyed it. Yeh I agree. When people copy, it takes away the magic. Thanks for watching 🎥🙏🏻
what a fresh outlook on videography thank you sam.
You could say your explanation of focal plane was the best thing since sliced bread! Thanks!
😂 haha thank you! 🙏🏻🎥
@@SamHolland Thanks for sharing your lunch with us, so to say :D
I also feel that with DOF, youtubers tend to shy away from hyperfocus distances that are used a lot in older films
Amazing break down and tips Sam! 🙌🙏
Cheers Nicko! 🤩🙏🏻🎥
Great explanation!! Funny too!!
Amazing video....to the point..thanks
Sam, this is utter pricelessness. Thanks monstrously much, from the States! 🇺🇸💛🇬🇧
Thank you Glen 🇺🇸
earned a sub! love the videos mate :D you deserve so many more!!
Thank you so much! 🤩🎥🙏🏻
Dude thanks a lot for that video ) I knew all that information before, but I was watching full video just because the way of your storytelling, montage and timing of video are genius❤ subscribed to your channel thank you one more time I spent my time here with great pleasure )
You legend!!! 🤩🙏🏻 it’s great to have you here and there’s plenty more to come 🎥🎥 have a great day!
@@SamHolland It’s great for me I could understand English (second pleasant thing personally for me 😂😂😂 you aren’t sound British😂)I’m Russian nobody I’m my country didn’t do nothing even close helpful as yours video, so only good words and best wishes to u
P.S I hate all that shit what our country doing in Ukraine 🇺🇦 now it’s real shame, but as a small person inside huge country with fucked up leaders you can’t do nothing against fucking war 😭😭😭
Hey I’m so pleased you found this video helpful. Peace to all 🌍🙏🏻
dude, you're quickly becoming my favorite tuber. I definitely lol'ed about the "famous youtuber" bit. ha ha Keep up the good work!
That’s amazing! 🤩 thanks Bret! Great to have you as part of the channel 🎥
Friggin love your videos man...ha !!! Learning made fun. Love the green screen gag.
Haha thank you 🤩🎥🙏🏻
useful, cinematic (psychology is useful and non linearity).
Photography is the DRAWING of LIGHT. Lighting doesn't get enough of a push because it doesn't move camera units
Always the bread example ! Soon I'll be using it in my classroom
This is great!
good explanation. many in my environment think the more bokeh the more cinematic.
I've never been swayed by a response like that.
And I don't bother thinking about those who think like that. And I'm still happy using the Lumix GH5 until now, which can only provide enough bokeh.
Thank you. Yeah micro 4/3 still have plenty of bokeh. And the image is 👌🏻🎥🤩
Ha! I followed these YT trends back in 2017-18. That quickly died down while learning on set throughout the years. Can attest to these great tips to show beginners!
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Another great one Sam ! :)
Thank you! 🙏🏻🤩🎥
Great video, the program works great
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I remember reading a while back from someone that analyzed a lot of modern and old films and did a lot of research into the gear they used - they found the average T-Stop was something like T4.5, because it keeps the character separated from the background while retaining their actual position and location in the frame, as well as lets the audience in on the set design and the hints it can provide. F1.8 and such does look nice, but in the instance of 2:08 for instance, I much prefer f22 or something close to it as the "cinematic" look - because it's a beautiful location and there's no reason to hide that, just as you said!
Thank you 🙏🏻
Ya and that's a 4.5 on a super 35 sensor I believe. So closer to a 6.3-7on FF
Well most of the movies have an average runtime of 100 minutes. In these 100 minutes almost 60% ist in deep focus. Almost 25% have that T4.5 stop cause of seperation like you said. And almost 15% only of the whole 100 miutes actually use that incredible so beloved youtube bokeh.
That is fact. So blurry background my ass.
My best movie up to date in my opinion is still the one I made in 2011. Everything is in deep focus and alsmost everything was shot on tripod with no movement what so ever.
Great content, I like the way you explain it. It is entertaining and fun. 🎥🎉👍
Thank you, Christian 🤩🙏🏻🎥
Great info here. I have to boldly convince some people that you don’t always need an ND outside. Some people use ND like a religion. I mean Geesh, just stop down and it is fine sometimes. It is not all about shooting wide open. F12 or even F18 is not going to ruin your image.
Maaaaaann I'm enjoying sooo much this new content of yours 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Thanks brother!!!! 🤩🙏🏻🎥 great to see you here again
Amazing video, Sam!
Thanks Christian 🤩🎥
Sam, the only thing which u could have done to have made your depth of field demo more real for the nitty gritty photographer would have been to have had homemade Alaskan Sourdough handsliced bread slices from a Yukon Stove. Great demo, really loved it! 😎😎
😂 haha thank you. I’ll bare that in mind for my shutter speed tutorial 😛😂🙏🏻🎥
I had no idea that green bar is the focal plane! Been shooting on my S1 since launch. Had no idea. THANK YOU
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I love this video Sam 👍 It drives me nuts to see travel vloggers blurring the background while they’re trying to showcase a location 🤨 Great video 💯
Totally! Thank you 🤩🙏🏻🎥
Bro this video feels really like the last thing that was missing and I watched a lot of videos here on TH-cam, great video thanks for that 🎉
Hey. Thanks. I’m so pleased it helped 🤩🙏🏻🎥
Excellent video dude 👏
Thanks, Josh! 🤩🙏🏻🎥 hope you’re well bro
Again a brilliant video Sam - thumbs up!
Thank you David 🤩🎥🙏🏻
If you nail exposure, framing, composition and focal to tell the story and make the viewer feel something, aperture almost doesn't really matter. I have all 2.8 lenses, but find myself shooting f5.6-f8 most of the time.
Agreed! 👌🏻🎥
Hi Sam, good points, well made.
Once you've exposed correctly and got everything you need in focus, that's a great start. You touch upon raising the ISO to balance the smaller apertures - particularly easy with Sony cameras. I'd also add that a lot of TH-camrs promote handheld footage, slow-motion and don't use gimbals. They also colour grade to make it look like it was produced for a Danish Noir documentary, which always leaves me wondering why they bothered to expose correctly in the first place.
In my experience of corporate/site videos (boring, but pays the bills), the chances of using slow-motion (no gimbal) = limited to nil. If it's colour graded in a dark, moody fashion so you can't see anything, then you'd get it straight back again 'to put right'.
Don't get me wrong, I love the PM's, Potato Jets et al of this world, but you have to shoot each job on its own merits, as most of my clients prefer a simple story, cleanly told. It doesn't always pay to over-complicate things - most clients want to be able to see their product clearly and don't really care about DOF, even if we do.
You’re so right!!!! Grading to suit the project is more important… until you get asked to make your own film 👌🏻🎥🤩 thanks for watching and commenting
I shoot lots of corporate stuff for bathroom clients and rarely use a gimbal.
Always interesting to hear other people’s work flow and perspectives!
Also I’m looking for a remote editor…so if you guys know anyone! 😂😂😂
You and Josh just keep battling back and forth for best s5 content!
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Very good advice!
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Great tip. There needs to be sufficient depth to tell a story. I've seen a couple of dramas shot at crazy shallow DoF, they might as well be shot entirely in studio on a green screen with a Zoom background. There's more to "cinematic-ness" including audio, set design, wardrobe, etc.
One other huge mistake I see is shooting 24/25p. Unless one has control over the viewer's playback device, 30p is always going to be better.
Conversion from 24->30p when uploading to every single social media creates so much jerkiness. I QC and prepare materials for broadcast/streaming in 30p. Countless Nat Geo docs look like crap due to the jitter after framerate conversions. Doesn't matter that most of them are shot on REDs/ARRI/Venice. For online publishing, always edit in shoot and edit in 30p. For local broadcasts, pick whichever is the region's framerate.
"Conversion from 24->30p when uploading to every single social media creates so much jerkiness" you don't need to covert to 30p to post on social media, and most of their players will just play it as you uploaded it (same frate rate I mean, they're usually recompress it more).
@@foljs5858 Nope. All online platforms playback at 30fps. When you upload them it is automatically converted whether you like it or not.
When I realised that the S5 was giving me an indication of the focal depth I was getting (like @6:36) I was so happy.
Amazing isn’t it! Such an underrated camera 🤩🎥👌🏻
Hahaha this is the best description of depth of field I’ve heard. I had to describe it once and I used the example of a sheet of glass for the focal plane and it being thinner or thicker, but you involved food so you win haha
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True true true. My lens can open to one slice of bread, but close it down to three and a half slices give a bit more context to the shot.
😂 amazing! I love it!!! 🍞🍞🍞
Thanks , great video.
Thank you! 🤩🎥🙏🏻
Excellent video! 🙂
Thanks Martin 🙏🏻🎥🤩
Yes !!! I really like this you have another fiel subscription because the makinon parody and definitely .. great tips cheers !!!
Finally someone who helps us beginners 👌
Yippee! 🤩🙏🏻🎥 I’m so pleased you feel that way. That’s what I set out to do. If you have any questions on anything, let me know and I’ll make a video 💪🏻 thanks for being here
Another great video!
Thank you 🤩🎥 hope it helped
great video man
Thank you! 🤩🎥🙏🏻
great instruction, love the bread 🙂
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brilliant video Peter. use of bread was awesome.
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A sneaky benefit of micro four thirds 😂
Only 1 of at least a million!
People shouldn't be allowed to use full frame, the bokeh epidemic has gone to far!
You are awesome !!
YOU are awesome 🤩🙏🏻🎥
The bread is a fantastic way to explain this!
😂🍞🥖 thanks 🙏🏻🎥
The bread example really clicked for me! Thank you for this video #subscribed
Hey! 🤩 I’m so pleased the bread analogy helped! 😂🥖 great to have you here! 🎥
Loving the 'Mighty Boosh' feels to these.. 😂
i love the humorous delivery of the truth in this video. the PM... er... youtuber shot was hilarious
Haha thank you 🤩🙏🏻🎥
Omg your f TH-cam film guru impression is spot on 😂 "and how not to do things" I hate this! Encourage people! Tel them how you CAN do great things instead of how not to. It's simple psychology. Positive reinforcement. 👍🏽
i argue with other photographers, (some famous one on youtube) about going out on location, and they shoot between f1.2-f2.0 or so, and lose their background details.
its like , why even go out on location? lol
Exactly!!! 👏🏻
Man you have me at work laughing out loud! that back hand slap is funny as hell🤣🤣🤣
Hahahaaa thanks Jay. I hope you didn’t get fired from work 😂🎥🍞
Another great video… 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you 🤩🎥
Great video, but that dig at Peter 😂
Nice.Thanks
Thank YOU 🤩🙏🏻🎥
I would be flippin out over all those crumbs!!! Easy to watch and educational as always. Thank you!!
😂🍞 I tidied them up instantly! 😜 thank you. So pleased you enjoyed it
Thank You Sam for making this fantastic content! Btw. S5 is amazing :) Peace :)
Thanks, Mateusz. 🤩🙏🏻 and yes it’s an amazing camera! 🎥💪🏻
Great video. I know nothing about cameras really and I feel 10 times smarter. Only 1000000000 more to go.
Hello Sam , great video , and funny , thank you for the tip , big like 57 , my favorite tip is focus plane .
Thank you! 🤩🙏🏻 pretty cool how the focal plane changes eh 🎥 thanks for watching and commenting