1st Camera Lesson

On Thursday 6th of September we went into the studio and got started. Matt, the media technician split us into 3 groups and handed us a tripod and a camera. First we got out the tripod so we had a safe place to put the camera. We set the tripod up by; 

• Putting the legs to the right hight
• Bubbling the tripod 
• Putting the handle on 

We then placed the camera onto the tripod and flicked the switch to lock it into the tripod to secure it. We then put the battery into the camera and switched it on. Matt then told us a number of things that needed to be checked and put into place before we got shooting. This consisted of;

• Setting up the white balance - This is done by zooming right into any surface that is white and pressing the white balance button. You do this to show the camera the colour white so the camera can work out all the other colours.
• Focusing - focusing is very important in any shot you shoot. We focused the camera by getting someone to stand in-front of the camera and zooming right into there eyes, this would appear blurry in the camera so we would then focus the lens and zoom out. Now the camera is fully focused.

The camera we used - SonyNX5 (a low grade professional camera)