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An In-Depth Tutorial for Using a Light Meter to Find Your Camera's Exposure...
This is a guest post by cinematographer Angelo Lorenzo. Maybe you’re an army-of-one indie director. Maybe you’re a cinematographer who has decided to step up your game or reinforce your fundamentals....
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New to DSLRs? A Beginner's Guide to Exposure and an Explanation of Lens...
Exposure is one of the most important aspects of shooting with DSLRs. If you're new to shooting with digital cameras, it can be a bit overwhelming to fully understand all of the terminology and the...
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Histograms Explained: How a Simple Tool Can Help You Nail Exposure Every Time
Cameras these days come with a veritable plethora of tools to help you expose your images properly, everything from built-in exposure meters to zebras and false color displays. However, there's one...
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A Complete Guide to Correctly & Creatively Exposing an Image
In this helpful lighting tutorial from cinematographer Eve Hazelton, we learn five ways to expose an image, as well as how aperture, shutter speed, ISO, filters, and lighting can be used creatively to...
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Learn the Basics of Using Histograms in This 2-Minute Video
Histograms can be extremely helpful tools for exposing images—if you know how to use them. If you're a new filmmaker, chances are you're not completely familiar with all of your camera's great...
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Let These Nifty Graphics Explain Shutter Speed, Aperture, and ISO
This video offers a great explanation of how to get a good exposure. If you've recently picked up a camera for the first time (or maybe you just never got around to learning the basics), one of the...
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Let This Friendly Little Animation Tell You All You Need to Know about Aperture
If you've got 5 minutes, you can learn pretty much everything you need to know about how aperture works. Though not the most complicated concept in optics, aperture can certainly be tricky for some...
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Watch: The Easiest Way to Memorize the F-Stop Scale
If you can't keep track of all of those f-numbers, then you should learn this essential trick. Knowing the f-stop scale is important if you want to quickly and accurately expose your images, however...
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Should You Be Using False Color? Here Are 7 Situations in Which You Probably...
Waveforms, scopes, and other exposure tools are great, but sometimes the only thing that can do the job is false color. For many of you, the answer to the question posed in the title of this article...
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What Is the Exposure Triangle and How Does Each Element Affect Your Images?
Aperture, ISO, and shutter speed are the three fundamental elements of exposure, but how exactly do they work? So, you're a first-time filmmaker who has done their due diligence by poking around...
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Cinematography Tip: How to Use a Gray Card to Get Proper Exposure
If you don't already carry a gray card in your gear bag, you might decide to after this. Achieving proper exposure is one of the first things you learn about as a fledgling cinematographer or...
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Colourlab Ai 1.3 Makes It Easier to Create the Ultimate Show LUT
Though sometimes difficult to do correctly, a good professional show LUT can save you tons of time in post and help you to create the images you have in mind. This new update for Colourlab Ai makes it...
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Breaking Down the Three Basics of Cinematography
A simple rundown of the complex art form known as cinematography. If I had to rank the most desirable (if not a little bit pretentious) job titles in film and video, it’d probably have to go in this...
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