Manage exposure
Adapt your technique for stills photography to correctly expose video clips
NDS ARE YOUR FRIEND
If you can’t increase your shutter speed because of the visual effect it has on movement, and are at minimum ISO, in daylight scenes ND filters are essential to allow both shallow DOF and full brightness control.
If there is one area that will confuse photographers who are starting their video journey, it is exposure. As any experienced photographer will know, if the scene is too bright it is overexposed and so must be corrected using the three exposure components – shutter speed, aperture and ISO, or a combination of these. While the exposure of a video clip is exactly the same in a physical sense, practically speaking there are some inherent differences in how this is applied while shooting.