(lighthearted electronic music) - Oh! Almost. Cinema Series. (knife blade snaps) Oh, it's like a nice easy
sticker to open, that's uh- just use my eyeballs next time. Ooh. Sticker. Instructions. (paper crinkling) Fancy lens cloth. Soft case with built in lens cloth, oh yeah. Super soft hard case,
like the softest of cases. Inside you have the money item. (ambient electronica music) Check out these tasty
quartz lined ND filters. Delicious look at that, Mm! ND1000, that's like pure black. You take this, place it into your hand, it completely vanishes and then you are- you're done, you're good to
go, you got, you got nothin'. That's the way I store my filters, just to you know, save bag space. Ha! (rhythmic rock music) (ambient techno music) ♪ You're full of confidence
and cheap cologne ♪ ♪ You're showing off your
moves in hope for attention ♪ - What's up everybody! Peter McKinnon here and welcome back to, yes!
Another two minute Tuesday. It's so great to have you here, and to see all of your smiling faces. Guess what? I'm gonna try
and make you a promise today. I might break it, I might not. I'm gonna try and stick to two minutes, and I'm gonna do that
by committing right now by putting two minutes on the clock. (echoing boom) Let's go! Okay, so today we're talking
about how to make your photos and your videos more professional, and you're gonna do that by using filters in front of your lens. There are so many
different types of filters that you can screw on to your lenses, that you can even magnetize
to some of your lenses depending on the mount. But these are going to
give you drastic changes both when you're shooting photos and when you're shooting video. Now we talked about ND filters before and that'll be the biggest change that you have when you're shooting videos. Having nice depth of
field in the background like we have right now,
where it's smooth and creamy and delicious, and it's very blown out. It's a very shallow depth of field. That is a very professional
look that a lot of people want. Now when you're outside
and it's super bright, usually when you're shooting
at a very wide aperture and if you don't know what that means, you can check this video
here which is camera basics, you want to shoot at
that wide open aperture to get that nice, soft,
shallow background. But if you're outside and it's so bright and you open up that lens
to let tons of light in, well it's already too
bright and now you're letting even more light in,
so how is that gonna work? That's when you put an ND filter
over the front of your lens and the best way to explain it is like sunglasses for your camera, everyone uses that analogy
for a very specific reason. So check this out. Let's
say we're outside right now. This shot that you're looking at, that's how I want it exposed. We're at 1.4, that lens is wide open, nothing's shallow, it doesn't look good. You'll see as I just
move this piece of glass, this ND filter in front of the lens, look how much better that looks! Now we have that professional look outside despite how bright it is. (clicks keyboard) I just realized I didn't
actually tell you the reason you need an ND outside for
video while I'm editing this. So really quick, a little caveat so that this all makes sense, is when you're shooting video, you want to maintain your shutter angle. Meaning you want to shoot
video, double your frame rate so that it looks the smoothest
when it comes to motion blur. If you're not shooting
double your frame rate, the motion blur isn't natural, so it feels jittery and
it just looks weird, and people watching your
videos and your films will just think, "This looks
a bit choppy" or "interesting" and that's because your shutter speed is not matched to your frame rate. So if we're shooting
at 24 frames a second, and we're shooting video on a DSLR, we're gonna move our shutter
speed to 1/50th of a second and you always want to keep it there. You can compensate for
the brightness outside by cranking that shutter
up to you know, 1/250th and it would look fine on your screen, but then that motion blur won't look good. So you have to keep that
shutter speed at 1/50th. But herein lies the problem, that the footage is just too bright, it just doesn't look good, which is why you slide the
ND filter over the lens which basically exposes
everything properly. Another reason why cinema
cameras are so expensive because they have built in ND filters, they don't even need anything over them. I'm shooting on one
right now, for example, where's the button, where is it? Look at this, all I have
to do is press this button and it adds and de-filters
at different stops right over my footage. It's incredible! Anyways, I figured I would just
kind of throw that in there because the video doesn't
really make sense without it. Moving on. So that look is going to make your films, your projects if you're
working for somebody, yourself, for a corporation, anything, it's gonna make your projects,
your work, more professional. That's using an ND. Now we're gonna talking about
something called a polarizer. If you've never heard of it, it's also a filter that screws
on the front of your lens, but what this is going
to do is bring out more of the blues in the sky. So it's gonna punch those colors, it's gonna extract that nice saturation from these very vibrant scenes that may not otherwise be picked up from your camera as
vibrant as you see them. A good example of this is when I went to the Bahamas a couple years ago. I made sure to shoot
all my tropical photos with a polarizer on
because it made those blues way darker and richer blue,
it really pulls that out. Another good thing is
using these polarizers on your done shot,
because your drone footage is gonna look even
better and more colorful when you have a polarizer on. But my favorite use for a polarizer, because they're also known to cut reflections out of windows, is if you're doing a
time-lapse from a hotel window and you have that
reflection in the background of your actual room
that you're staying in, you want to get rid of that,
you throw a polarizer on, it's gonna cut right through
the glass and look amazing. And then it also doubles as
giving you that refection. You'll notice a lot of
Hollywood directors and DPs use polarizers to get the
reflection out of a car window when you see someone driving
in a really cinematic scene. Half their face is perfectly exposed and the other half might
be all the trees passing on the road that they're driving in, and that is one of my absolute favorite types of shooting styles
when I see that in a movie. It's super cinematic, it looks incredible, and you're gonna get
that with the polarizer. I'm pretty sure that
was already two minutes, so I apologize. I mean no, I'm not sorry! We're crushing good content right here. All right, next up is something
called the Black Pro-Mist. Now you might be like,
"What is that, Pete?" "What does that even mean?" Now let's be honest, when
you see big, blown-out highlights in your camera footage when you're shooting with
your DSLR or whatever, it doesn't always look that nice, but a Pro-Mist filter is gonna
kind bloom those highlights, it's gonna make everything look a lot more soft and glowy and dream-like. This is a Pro-Mist, it just
looks like a UV filter, but if you were to hold that in front of the camera right now,
you might even notice around my ears or around my face, it's just a little more
soft and cinematic. Now I'm not threading this
on because I'm literally just holding it to the lens, hey. But if I move it away,
I think you'll probably see the difference, especially
when you're outside. So again, if you replay that footage, you just skip back like ten seconds, you'll notice when that Pro-Mist was on, my skin looks a lot softer, so does that neon sign in the background, opposed to the harshness
of those highlights without a Pro-Mist. Ooh! (snaps fingers) Just
lovin' this! Lovin' this topic! Okay lastly, you can throw
a UV filter on your lens. Now you've probably heard of that, those are the most
common, the most popular. Usually when you buy a new
lens, you throw a UV on it. I can't say with like absolute certainty that I even see much of a
difference with a UV haze filter. The reason I do like
them though is because if you're spending a lot
of your hard earned money on a lens, that's gonna
protect the front element. So if you drop it, if something hits it, if water gets on it,
anything like that, a knife. Maybe you're shooting the thumbnail for 8 Camera Hacks in 90 Seconds. You just have that filter on the front to make sure it's
protecting your investment. So that's why I like them. And the last pro tip is
something called the step up ring that looks like this,
there's no glass on it. That may have blown your mind right there, it blew mine originally. But what it is, is a
filter that filters on- (ring clinks on floor) Argh! We're good. It's a fashion- (ring clinks on floor) Seriously, Peter? It's a fashion accessory
you can, you could like, Jennifer Lopez hoops right
there, we're not gonna- Let's get back on topic! So what the step up ring
or step down ring does is you screw and your
thread your filter on to it, and then this is gonna allow you to thread this on to your camera. Not having to buy this
same Pro-mist or polarizer or ND size for every
lens that you own, right? 'Cause some lenses are
82, some lenses are 77. You've got so many different
diameters of lenses that like, you don't want to
have to buy the same ND filter for every single diameter
lens that you have. That's why you get
something like a step up or a step down ring and then you can just screw your existing filters on to it and fit your lenses without
having to break the bank. So I'm gonna list all of this stuff in the description below. If you want to check
all of those links out, ka-boom! below. And I should say, I just
replaced all of my filters. Everything, my UVs, my polarizers, my NDs with PolarPro's new lineup. They are friends of mine
and they just came out with all the their filters
that we know for drones, 'cause we all love those. They've got them for like the Phantom, the Mavic, all that stuff. They just brought out
a whole new quartz line for DSLRs, which is incredible. And they come with like everything! This is the only company I've ever seen to include a soft case, a hard case, a built in lens cloth in the soft case, the great quality filters
that you are seeing in my hands that I am using right now. So again, I've linked all
that stuff below as well. And this is a little bit of
what that packaging looks like. You get a lens cloth, a soft case with it, and a hard case that the filter comes in, but I take it out of
this hard case, peace! It's really nice, by the
way and it's also labeled so you know which filter you have. But I threw it in this soft case 'cause it's very slim, nice profile. Velcros shut. Also has
the model of the filter that you're using on the top left corner so if you have then stacked you can just kind of go through them like records and figure out which one's yours. And then when you open it up, it's just nice and soft inside. But my favorite part is the
fact that they actually have a built in lens cloth inside
this nice soft packaging so you can clean your filter
off right before you put it on, or you can wrap it in the
cloth and then actually place that in the bag so when you go to grab it, you're already grabbing
the cloth and not just putting your fingers, your
dirty little meat hooks all over your super nice, clean NDs. Boom! That's what I call thinkin'
through a product design! All right guys, so that is it for today, that is your two minute Tuesday. That was probably more than two minutes. I hope you guys got something out of that. Again, all of the links are listed below. These are tools that
are pretty inexpensive that are gonna make a massive difference in your, both your
photography and your video. These filters aren't only
just for video purposes, like if you want to do
long exposures of water, or time-lapses, or traffic driving by, an ND is gonna help you with that as well. So these are really
cheap for the most part applications that are gonna get you really not cheap results. That's why I wanted to share
this with you guys today. I hope you enjoyed it, I hope
you get something out of it. If you have questions, list them below, let's start that conversation,
and until next time, hit that like button
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you in the next video for- I'm not gonna give it away,
you guys know that. Peace! (imitates whoosh) (smooth R&B style instrumental )
