Neutral Density Filters for Video

Neutral Density Filters for Video

Cinematographers used neutral density filters for a very long time for a very simple reason. The ISO / ASA of the film stock was fixed, and the cameras had a stock shutter angle, leaving the only variable the iris. Still photographers call this the aperture. These requirements persist with video, so let’s learn how to address this with ND filters

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Getting the Best Sound in your Videos

Getting the Best Sound in your Videos

The next step in our video for still photographers series is here and it’s all about audio. When I was first studying videography, most of my projects that helped fund the whole thing were corporate work. This was before the boom in self video and the increasing ubiquity of crappy sounding video being acceptable as more and more pieces were disposable

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