So it’s been 2 years since my last blog post on here (I think), and 8 months since I last picked up a camera.
Truth is I got quite stuck into making wedding videos and it sort of took all the fun out of making videos.
Now that’s not to say I didn’t enjoy making wedding videos because quite frankly I did but filming just became a means to an end and not something I was passionate about anymore. This also came right after my last year at university where I started to fall out of love with filming due to a pretty poor course, which I feel was so different to what was promised that it really missed the mark with me.
8 months ago I edited my final wedding and prepared to move from nothingness/middleofnowehere England to London. I then spent the past 6 months struggling to adapt to big city life and find my place here. Which I never really did because I was too busy waiting for something to happen for me and applying for jobs that were not really what I wanted to do, to realise that I should get out there and do something myself. So with 2018 in full swing I have decided to get off my arse and make a change.
The first change is from DSLR to Iphone 7. All my shots photography and video will be shot solely on Iphone with a little help from apps and accessories. And with the Iphone 7 I’ll be able to shoot some 4K and some slow-motion footage which I am really looking forward to.
Firstly, lets talk accessories.
Olloclip Core Pro Lens set fro Iphone 7
This set consists of Fisheye, Super-Wide and Macro 15x lenses. Which unlike some of the other lens sets gives me much more variety for photo and video alike. Here’s the link to the website for more information on the lenses https://www.olloclip.com/shop/lenses/iphone7-core-lens-set/
There are other Lens sets from Olloclip but this one for me has the best variety. Other companies such as Moment and Exolens make some great phone based lenses and accessories but I’ve found them to be a little pricey and hard to get hold of in the UK. Here are both the links to Exolens and Moment for you to check out. Also I should note that Moment have a pretty good YouTube channel with a great Filmic Pro video on which ill link at the end.
https://exolens.com/
https://www.shopmoment.com/
For sound I’ll be using the Rode Videomic ME for now even though that means I’ll need to run a lightening to audio jack adapter. Let’s see how this goes I may end up switching to the Rode VideoMicro.
http://www.rode.com/microphones/videomicme
Next let’s talk apps.
For editing photos and shooting them I’ll be mostly using Adobe Lightroom CC for Iphone. This app offers awesome in camera controls including manual overrides for exposure, aperture and focus and the editing part of this app allows you to use things such as curves for colour correcting photos. I’ll drop the adobe link in below so you can read more about it.
http://www.adobe.com/uk/creativecloud/photography.html?sdid=V6NZKW2K&mv=search&s_kwcid=AL!3085!3!227038550044!b!!g!!lightroom%206&ef_id=WaGk-gAAAFBDvyvG:20180116153517:s
Last app I’m going to talk about is Filmic Pro now it’s the only paid app I’ve mentioned and at £14.99 if you’re not used to buying apps it might seem like a bit of a stretch, but let me assure you that this is well worth it. It gives you so much control over your video even allowing you to do things like set two focus points and switch between them while shooting.
http://www.filmicpro.com/
Right that’s enough from me. So expect some YouTube and stock footage links being posted to this blog very soon. Here are some awesome videos that probably do a better job than I did at talking about using your phone for shooting video and photo. The Peter McKinnon video is more photo based where the Moment video focuses on using Filmic Pro to shoot on phone.
Hope you enjoy, will be back soon.
Peter McKinnon Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AywNcZL6IQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys63jdks26E
Moments video on Filmic Pro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWSuKVRpk7I
