So focusing on a person or object isn’t that hard. You zoom in or use magnify, adjust focus, and then zoom back out. They’re in focus. But what if your subject moves in place or you have two subjects in the frame? What do you do? Can Hyperfocal distance help?
Frank explores focusing, depth of field, near and far focus, hearts on some sweat bokeh background, and shows you how to find the hyperfocal distance via charts but also without then when you're on location.
Magic Lantern software helps push the Canon 5D mark iii to its limits. What does that look like and is it worth it? Spuds shot some tests while in Hawaii (vacation? What vacation?) with his Galaxy Note 4, Canon 5D mark iii recording h.264, and then raw using Magic Lantern software installed on the camera. The results are very interesting.
We’re all familiar with using a tripod to get standard shots in our videos but what if you need to rig the camera overhead, pointing it straight at a table for those product or food beauty shots. Or to rig it higher up to record straight down at a person. Frank looks at a few simple rigs using grips stands and shows how to make a “goalpost” rig for more stable overhead shots.
