Camera & Settings

• Grain


  Happens when camera is overcompensating for not having enough light

  Capture in as much natural light as possible

  Get that aperture OPEN

  Do NOT oversaturate in post
• Exposure


  The amount of light which reaches your camera sensor or film
• ISO

  Digital camera setting that will brighten or darken a photo

  Controls sensor's sensitivity
• Exposure Triangle


  Aperture, shutter speed, ISO

  How to achieve proper exposure

  Don't want your histograms clipping in the shadows or highlights, left or right
• Spherical Aberration

  Light coming through the lens at the outskirts and light coming through the middle converge in different spots
• Convex Lenses

  Thicker in the middle

  Cause light rays to converge in the focal point

  Light rays don't go through it straight, they refract and converge to produce a single image

  Has to be paired with a concave lens to help the light converge in a single point, which fixes chromatic and spherical aberration
• Digital File

  There's JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, RAW, CRW, CR2, ARW
• Digital Image Processing

  The use of computer algorithms to perform image processing on digital images

  It can avoid problems such as the build up of noise and signal distortion during processing
• Sensor

  Detects and conveys information used to make an image

  Surface of it is divided into a very fine grid of light-sensitive sites called pixels, or photosites

  Each charged pixel in the gif is read out at an instant time and the output creates a frame
• Aperture

  Physical hole in the lens that changes in size of its opening, letting more or less light into the camera

  Larger opening, more light - shallow depth of field

  Smaller opening, less light - deeper depth of field

  Factors of shallow depth of field include:

  Imaging chip size, focal length, aperture, distance between the subject, the camera, the background
• Shutter

  What allows light to hit the film plane or digital sensor

  Can be mechanical and physical

  Exact amount of time or exposure time that your camera records an image for

  Mirrorless cameras have a digital one - they turn the sensor off at a certain speed

  Different ratio and sizes, measured in millimeters

  Effects the motion