Do you have any tips for shooting videos?

The video shooting skills are as follows:

1. Practice focusing

Find two objects with different positions in your viewfinder, such as a table Put a water bottle in the front and an apple not far behind the water bottle. This will be ok. Or you could look for objects with a larger distance difference. Then practice changing focus from one object to another and back again. This is called focus shifting. This is a great way to add a bit of movement to a static video.

This can be very effective in helping to get a good feeling of focus, and then it is easier to find ways to move the focus. This exercise should be given a lot of attention because it is very useful. In daily shooting, focus and focus are very important. It is impossible to have the luxury of having a focus person beside you for everything. Even if you are nearby, you may not be able to grasp the focus position well. At this time, you still need to rely on your own feelings.

2. Practice panning and focusing.

In these exercises, you can try to capture objects that move at uneven speeds, and then see if they can be well captured in the lens. Grasp the changes in the moving speed of objects.

3. Practice pitching

First of all, I need to find something taller, such as trees, tall buildings or street lights. Then practice pitching and panning back and forth on these objects at different speeds.

This helps to get used to the feel of the tripod, allows us to more clearly grasp the different rebound strengths of the tripod, and understand the different feelings at fast and slow speeds.

4. Practice using the zoom lever or zoom ring

It depends on the situation of your camera, and then practice accordingly. Of course, if you have free time, it would be better to practice with two of them. Many people like to add zoom lenses to their videos, so this exercise is indispensable. Smooth use of zoom and accurate pauses all need to be mastered in practice. It's easy to have abrupt knots and movements in zoom shots, and this is something to avoid in practice.

Photography is to use a camera or video recorder to record the images of people and things. Different scenes have different shooting techniques, including night scene shooting, rain scene shooting, building shooting, portrait shooting, etc. Film dynamic art shooting is also a type of shooting, but it must follow certain principles. With the advancement of technology, photography has become easier and more popular.

Extended information:

Techniques for shooting videos on mobile phones:

1. Shooting in landscape mode

Although most of the current mobile phone apps are vertical screen structure, but when you click on a video to watch it in full screen, you will find that it is still in landscape mode. This takes advantage of limited screen space. Don’t believe what some articles say about changing your thinking and using a vertical screen. Because it is not suitable for our national conditions. Of course, you can change your thinking when making foreign videos.

2. Control jitter

Jitter is fatal to your video no matter what! In addition to anti-shake artifacts and post-production software to de-shake (these contents can be found in our previous articles for special introduction), simply place your elbows on both sides of the body and clamp them. When the subject moves, you move your entire body instead of your phone, and the resulting video will be more stable.

3. Use light

The influence of light is crucial. Although there is no absolute lighting effect for the effect. But at least you need to avoid obvious shadows and exposure. For example, beautiful women appear more graceful when photographed with backlight. For male characters, smooth lighting or even some shadows are fine. You can practice more in specific ways.

4. Manually set exposure and focus

Not all smartphones have this function, but if it does, please set it up. Simply press and hold any area on the screen to activate the AE/AFLock function. For smartphones, AE (automatic exposure) lock is even more important, because no one wants the phone to constantly change exposure while shooting. Locking autoexposure is even more important if you're planning on shooting around a room.

As for manual focus control, it is very useful for those who plan to get close to the subject from far to near, because you need the camera to focus on a certain area. Specific models may have different settings, please check your phone's manual or online articles.

5. Mobile phones are not suitable for dynamic zoom. Adjust it beforehand.

Mobile phones still have limitations compared to professional photography equipment. Zooming during shooting (which is what we understand as zooming in and out) often does not work well. So try to minimize or not use the zoom during shooting. Generally we use to adjust the zoom before shooting. No transformations are made during a shot.

6. You can use your mobile phone to edit videos.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Photography