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Finding your DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY-----
If you go down the line of great directors you'll find that most of the great directors found somebody that they liked to work with. And there's a good reason for that - They make the Director Look Good.

FILM PHOTOGRAPHY

There are 7 factors which can have an effect on the overall exposure of your film
-Light meter
-Film speed
-Frame rate
-Foot candles
-Filters
-The lens you use
-Film batch when working on film

THE CAMERA LENS

Lenses determine the quality of the image produced in any camera and choosing the lens must be a major -- perhaps most important consideration when selecting equipment.

Lenses in it's most primal sense gather light and focus it onto the film stock through the film gate.

Lenses hold the key to a whole new world of photographic creativity

Three basic types of Lenses
STANDARD
WIDE-ANGLED
TELEPHOTO

STANDARD LENS
-The reality lens
-Ideal for still life and showing things as they really are

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WIDE-ANGLED LENS
-Shows the background
-Gives you the opportunity to capture much more than can be seen with the naked eye
-Ideal for landscape, architecture and scenic photography
-Stretches perspective so the elements in a scene appear further apart
-Can keep everything in sharp focus from the immediate foreground to the distant background
-Large coverage and depth of field
-Such compositions can be especially effective when the foreground area includes lines that lead the eye toward the distant background and thereby add depth and three-dimensional feeling

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TELEPHOTO LENS
-Gets rid of the background
-Does the opposite of wide-angled lens
-Instead of stretching perspective, they compress it
-Everything appears much closer

OTHER TYPES OF LENS

MACRO LENS
-Some zoom or fixed focal length lenses are referred to as Macro Lens
-Longer focusing range than an ordinary lens
-Good for CLOSE UP work

FISHEYE LENSES
-Records subjects differently than what we see with our eyes
-Curved lines

FILTERS

Camera filters are used for adjusting color temperature, diffusion, polarizing, close focus, reduction in lights and a whole array of special visual effects.

Several factors should be taken into consideration when assessing filter effects
-choice of film format
-choice of film stock
-choice of lens
-How the scene it lit
-How much embellishment that performer may or may not need. After makeup has been applied, that should be taken into consideration

POLARIZING FILTERS
-Creates weakening of colors in a scene
-Blue color will deepen considerably
-Colors look far richer
-Used in bright sunny weather

GRADUATED FILTER
-Neutralizes two focal points
-Sky and ground form together for example

The quality of light influences how well texture shapes tone, color and form are defined in a scene

In order to create a successful composition you first have to decide which part of the scene you want to capture. Then arrange the elements contained in it so they form a visually pleasing whole

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