Nikon D7000

As we are now moving on to shooting our Ad's for our film, what better than to have a brand new camera! Today we looked at our new Nikon D7000, one of the best on the market. Our teacher invited another fellow teacher who has quite a lot of knowledge on the camera, Mr Robinson, to help us out. He gave us a little run through on what everything does and how to use it which was very helpful. Can't wait to start trying it out!

Some info...

A lot of light is needed for the highest shutter speed
Less light the longer it take for the shutter speed to close and open again, to take the picture
When it is on flash it takes a long time for it to reload...flash...reload etc. 
Always keep the shutter open= increasing the amount of light going into the lense

S= Single shot
CL= Cluster Low- takes 3 frames per second
CH = Cluster High- takes 6 frames per second

For slow subjects you would move the camera manually and the estimated shutter speed will be about 3 frames per second
For a faster subject (A race car for example) were the shutter will take around 6 frames per second on the move subject

ISO is basically the amont of light that goes in to the lense
FStop is the shutter speed- the camera that we are using is about a 4.5 

Points of focus- 9 point, 16 point, 24 point etc of a subject the camera will focus on those points and the background will be out of focus/ blurry

If there is a subject coming towards you; walking or running, it will be easier to get the right effect if you position yourself at a slight angle or make the subject look as if they about to walk. The reason for this being because it makes the subject look blurry because the camera is trying to focus everytime the subject moves, confusing it and taking an out of focus image. 

White Balance- using the menu on the camera it will allow you to change the light balance, wether you are outside in the sun shine and want to get a darker image, you would simply click on sunny day and when you take the image, the picture will darken and vice verser.