5 life hacks from CMCproduction for cool shooting on the phone.
Original publication in Russian on the Zen blog https://dzen.ru/a/ZJSst14_UGNxN7v_
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We are sure that many of the videos that you have ever viewed were shot with such high quality that it is impossible to distinguish on which device the shooting was done - on a professional camera or a phone. We reveal the secrets of proper setup and use of a mobile camera in this article.

Of course, a professional camera and the camera of your smartphone have differences. This can be seen with the naked eye by comparing the size of the devices. As for the functionality, there are already more similarities. For example, both have a matrix and optics.

PiterPro_production operator Mikhail Smirnov on the set of rils for Instagram (founder and head of CMCproduction and SmartREC):

Currently, there are more and more examples of well-known video works shot on a phone. So, for example, there are whole feature films and music videos that were filmed on a smartphone. But the main thing remains the person behind the camera. Only a professional operator will be able to shoot high-quality shots on the phone, like in a movie.

If you have a smartphone at hand, be sure to study the main advantages and disadvantages in order to learn how to use your camera correctly.

Advantages of your smartphone's camera.

1) Small size, you can make cool shots from a woman's handbag, a car glove compartment, a freezer, a trash can and other unusual places.

2) Good stabilization You can make smooth shots without additional operator devices. Example

3) Multiple lenses. Long-focus, wide-angle and ultra-wide-angle. It turns out that the mobile camera has a set of basic optics.

4) HDR function. It expands the dynamic range and the videos are obtained with good elaboration of details in colors and shadows. Not all Prof. cameras can shoot HDR. And there are fewer details in light and dark areas.

This is especially noticeable on a sunny day, when the sky on the camera is overcast and white, and on the phone it is worked out, blue with clouds.

But there are also disadvantages in shooting on the phone.

1) Indoor quality. At night and in low light, the quality of shooting on the phone drops very much.

2) There is no clear control over image profiles. There is a LOG in the phone applications, but it is much worse than from the camera.

In professional cameras, setting up LOG provides much greater opportunities for post-production:

(what is Postproduction)

3) It is very inconvenient and takes a long time to make adjustments to the shooting settings. And on Prof. the camera has custom programmable buttons. And the shooting goes much faster, without missing important points.

4) There are no interchangeable lenses. The phone has only built-in lenses, the quality can not be compared with photo optics.

5 life hacks from CMCproduction for cool shooting on the phone.

1- Make it a rule to wipe the lens. Before taking a picture, wipe the camera lens with a cloth cloth, so no stain will spoil your frame!

2 - To emphasize the movement of the camera and give dynamics to the frame, it is recommended to shoot movements with an ultra-wide-angle camera and make the camera move close to the surface of the ground or table, for example, driving between cups, so that the foreground moves, creating a feeling of rapid movement of the camera in space.

3 - Always adjust the exposure to the brightest object! That is, if the background is dark, and a person in a white shirt and he is small and far away in the frame, then 90% that the frame will be highlighted, and the camera will try to raise the overall illumination, not realizing that the person is already in the twilight.
In such cases, fix the exposure with a long tap on the screen and make a slide down. Then the frame becomes darker, and details appear on the person.
Always adjust the exposure to the main object.

4 - Fix the exposure so that the video does not change brightness during panoramas. Constant brightness gives the feeling of more professionally shot material.

5 - Shoot only in those conditions in which the phone can give good quality.

Save the article and use professional tips to make your shooting on the phone look high-quality and cool! You can also order high-quality shooting of your reels, shorts for YouTube, or any other content in our production.

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Mikhail Smirnov (Founder, Head of CMCproduction and SmartREC)