Tech: Shoot a Better iPhone Adventure Video With Tips From Camp 4
From National Geographic’s adventure blog, you will find many tips for shooting films on the iPhone 4S interlaced within this interview of the producer of the music video.
We intentionally shot in the evening hours when we knew the light would look beautiful—and as amazing as the new camera on the 4S is, the new software update (iOS5) available on any iPhone really let us play with the camera in ways we couldn’t before. The new iOS lets you lock focus/exposure/and White Balance. That really let us control the look of the footage we were getting.
With this great example later on:
To get the footage to look how we wanted we shot Gillian backlit nearly the entire time. Then we would focus and expose on her guitar or face (which was in the shadow). Because the camera thought it had to expose for the darker area, and we were able to lock that exposure, when we recomposed to include the sun it gives it that great washed out, ephemeral look.
