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job on it. In terms of doing the of exposure, aperture and shutter camera setting, given that there
post-production, I had to really speed, the better your control of are so many other things to think
make sure that the prosthetic was your images will be. It doesn’t about with regards to lighting and
looking the best. So there was a necessarily mean your images positioning and all the things that
lot of kind of feedback from her will be any better, it just means could go wrong. I mean, arguably
as the client, letting me know that you’ve got more control over maybe a simpler camera to start
she needed me to kind of finesse it. Some of my most favorite with is a smarter way to start.
a few little things just to kind of footage, for example, in terms
fix anything that might have kind of video was shot on an iPhone Brett S
of started to wear off in the pool. five in the Bahamas. And it just That’s absolutely right. There’s a
Outside of that, then there’s not a so happened that the situation tradeoff. I don’t want to invest
lot. It’s mostly just cleaning up the we were in, and the model I was any more gear in something until
background, removing anything working with made it amazing. I know that I’m really going to
that might be a little distracting. This camera was just enough to love it or I’m going to start making
Luckily for this one, the bubbles capture that. Whereas if I tried money from it. So for me, I’m
and the light kind of all work to do a set with my underwater starting off with the cheapest I
together. So I don’t think there phone, my iPhone five, it probably can afford with the controls that
was a whole lot that I needed to wouldn’t look very good. It would I want. So if I was just starting
do. look very boring. So it’s really a out in this, I would probably get
matter of kind of working out the a GoPro, an iPhone or something
JW best situation for which tool you with a case on it. And then you
For a photographer starting out, have. I’m not sure if that really learn from that, what the mistakes
what kind of advice would you helps. are, and what you don’t like, and
give? what do you want to change.
JW So suddenly, you realize that the
Brett S That totally makes sense to me. GoPro it keeps changing exposure
The main thing is to make the And you could have a super all the time, you don’t have any
most of the equipment you have. sophisticated camera but not control over that, or its lens is way
If the camera that you have is know how to use it, then you too wide for what you want to do.
a GoPro, then use that as much might as well use an iPhone. So, then you start looking for the
as you can. If it’s an iPhone, or next step up to fix those problems
Android that can go underwater, that you’re finding.
play with those sorts of things. Brett S
You need to work with the tools A lot of cameras these days JW
you have until you can invest have facial recognition. And that What kind of advice on equipment
money into getting better tools. will work underwater in terms could you give someone who’s just
And so, in saying that I do tend to of in terms of focusing. So say got their iPhone? Let’s say, they’re
shoot a lot with my iPhone. What my iPhone 12 underwater, it’ll going to get the case, jump in,
I know, though, is that I have very find someone’s face. And it’ll and start fooling around and see
little control over stuff. I have to focus on that primarily. So long if they get a passion for it. What
shoot things that I know are going as you’re wanting that piece to kind of direction would you give
to work with that iPhone. So be in focus, it’ll be fine. But you them for underwater lighting?
say, if I’m in the Florida springs, I have to remember that all these
know that it doesn’t have a very cameras, especially the cheaper Brett S
dynamic range. This means that end, are trying to do everything Yeah, so there’s a few places
if things are very dark in one side they can to make your job easier. you can start with that. And the
and very bright and the other side, Sometimes that doesn’t give you cheapest option is natural lighting.
then my camera will not really the results that you want. I like a So, the sun is an awesome light,
handle that sort of image. I will manual camera that I can change which is beautiful when used
just mainly shoot in in the shade, all the settings on because I know correctly. If you jump into your
rather than having to try and bring what I want based on experience. swimming pool and try to take
in lights and all that sort of stuff. If a camera starts trying to make some photos under there, like
decisions for me, that’s when I say, in the middle of the day,
So, if you’re looking to sort of start to lose control over the final there’s going to be lots of ripples.
start in this world, then invest in result. That’s what happens when the
a very cheap housing for phone light refracts through the water
or a housing for a small compact JW and creates these hotspots. And
camera. The more controls you Well, but for someone that doesn’t the problem of those hotspots is
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