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Finding Your Unique Gifts-Joe Stolte Clip
Let your creativity flow while listening to this clip from our podcast with Joe Stolte! In this clip, Joe discusses the feeling of finding something you love to do and pursuing those unique gifts to create success in your life. Inspired to hear more? The full episode is on iTunes under Creative Haven here: Unlocking Your Purpose, Focusing On Your Unique Gifts, Changing Mindsets for Success, and Using Hip Hop Skills To Succeed In Business !
Exposure Trifecta Guide- Aperture, ISO, & Shutter Speed
Don’t shoot anything with your camera just yet! Are your camera settings set up accurately? How your videos and photos look, depends greatly on how you set up your camera. You don’t want your photos to turn out grainy or spend hours messing with the settings. Adjusting your ISO, aperture, and shutter speed and knowing what they do can give you the control for your shoot. These three important settings are what you need to know about and we’ve got the instructional video for you.
Before shooting on a camera, there are 3 basic settings that are imperative to set up: that being the ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. These all have dramatic effects on various aspects of videography.
ISO controls the brightness of the image. If you have a lower ISO, it means that your camera’s sensor is less sensitive to light, and so it will be darker. As your ISO goes up, the image will get brighter, but there will also be more visual noise that makes the image unappealing. You generally shouldn’t set your ISO to anything higher than 800, as that’s when the noise gets noticeable.
Shutter speed is how long the camera’s shutter takes to open and close. So if you’re shutter speed is at 60 or 1/60, it means the shutter will take 1/60th of a second to open and close. As a general rule of thumb when shooting video, set your shutter speed at double what your frame rate is. So if you’re shooting at 24FPS, set the shutter speed at around 50 (1/50) and if you’re shooting at 30FPS, set it at 60 (1/60) and so on.
Aperture, also known as F-Stop or iris, is how open or how closed your camera’s iris is. The way F-Stop values work is this: the lower your F-Stop is, the more open the iris is. The higher the F-Stop, the more closed the iris is. When the F-Stop value is low, meaning the camera’s iris is open, the image will appear brighter but will also have a more shallow depth of field. This means things in the foreground are clear but the background is blurry. On the other hand, when the F-Stop value is higher, the iris will be more closed, producing a darker image with a deeper depth of field, meaning everything will be in focus.
So to recap: keep the ISO no higher than 800 and your shutter speed double the frame rate you’re shooting at. Then for the aperture, determine whether you want a darker or lighter image and if you want a blurry background or not, and set it accordingly.
Learn How to Upload High-Quality Photos on Facebook
You want the best of the best for your photos, especially when they are posted on social media. When you post on a platform like Facebook, where over a million users view content daily, you want your pictures to stand out with the highest quality. This supportive article by Facebook Help Center offers some assistance to get your photos looking spic and span! Facebook automatically resizes and formats your photos when you upload, but to help reach high-quality photos, this is what you can do on your end. Facebook recommends resizing your regular photos to 720px, 960px or 2048px wide and cover photos to 851px by 315px and a file size less than 100KB to avoid compression. After you resize the supported sizes, save as a JPEG with an sRGB color profile. You can also upload photos in HD by default by changing your settings. The Facebook Help Center offers more helpful tips and suggestions to make sure your photos and videos are uploaded in high quality no matter what device you use to upload!
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Unlocking Your Purpose, Focusing On Your Unique Gifts, Changing Mindsets for Success, and Using Hip Hop Skills To Succeed In Business
Listen to our next podcast interview with Joe Stolte! Joe is an entrepreneur, dancer, and business coach who has his own coaching business and founded and sold many successful companies. As a former famous break-dancing crew member of the Massive Monkees, he uses what he learned as a b-boy to succeed in entrepreneurship and business. In the interview, he also talks about finding your purpose, focusing on your unique gifts to create success, and how changing your mindset into a positive one can set you up for success. Go to iTunes under Creative Haven here: Unlocking Your Purpose, Focusing On Your Unique Gifts, Changing Mindsets for Success, and Using Hip Hop Skills To Succeed In Business.
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How to Succeed in Following Your Dreams-Zach Benson Podcast Clip
Ready to hear more inspiring stories from our podcast? Listen to Zach Benson as he shares a bit about how he was able to start and grow his business. Listen to the full episode on iTunes under Creative Haven here: How His Passion for Dance Helped Him Create a 6-Figure Business and Now Works With Today's Top Influencers and Entrepreneurs
Lesser-Known Video Production Costs
As a filmmaker, knowing what expenses you may incur along your production process; can financially prepare you for any emergencies you may have. Overlooking these costs can affect your cast, crew, and your overall production. Do you know that these costs have just the same amount of importance as costs directly related to your video production? If you didn’t know, we have a list of the 6 lesser-known video production costs you should be aware of.
Just about everyone knows that video production is expensive. Of course, there is a huge range, from Hollywood movies with hundreds of millions of dollars to indie films with just several thousand or even hundred dollars. But no matter what it is, a high-quality production’s expenses will add up fast. For brand new filmmakers, it can be overwhelming when unexpected expenses grind their production to a screeching halt. We’re here to help you learn some of those lesser-known video production costs.
1. Food Costs. It may seem simple that people need to eat, but food costs for the cast and crew are very often overlooked. Especially for shoots that may take all day and be physically demanding, the cost of food can take up a substantial part of a production’s budget. People should get breaks to eat every few hours so everyone is able to work to their full potential.
2. Transportation. Transportation may be almost a non-factor for a skeleton crew with little equipment. But if you have a fair amount of people and equipment, transportation will not just take up time, but money as well. You may even have to get rental vehicles or trailers to transport equipment from set to set.
3. Post-Production. If you edit your production yourself, post costs will be virtually non-existent. But if you don’t edit it yourself, you’ll need to hire an editor. If you want special effects, you’ll need to hire someone for that. You may also have to hire other people that specialize in areas such as audio editing and colour grading.
4. Re-Shoots. Sometimes in the process of post-production, you find a continuity error, or don’t like how a line was delivered, or something along those lines. If that happens, you may decide you want to re-shoot a shot, multiple shots, or even whole scenes. This means hiring the cast and crew needed for the re-shoot, as well as acquiring the necessary shooting location and equipment.
5. Marketing. Of course you want people to see your production after it’s finally completed. But if you aren’t well known, or even if you are, you’ll have to make sure people know about your production. This will require marketing it. For smaller indie films, marketing consists largely of word-of-mouth marketing, but for Hollywood movies, marketing costs often match that of the actual production costs.
6. Copyright. While it’s not exactly the most fun part of production, establishing a copyright for you film is crucial to protect it from people stealing it and using it for their own profit. Perhaps the most infamous example of a movie without copyright is Night of the Living Dead. George Romero’s classic zombie flick didn’t hold a copyright for decades, and so showed up in countless other movies. It’s very important to make sure the same doesn’t happen to your production.
Here’s How You Should Upload Your Instagram Images and Videos with these Dimensions
Want polished, sleek photos and videos to be posted on your Instagram personal and business profile? Ensuring the videos and images you post to your feed are formatted correctly to the right type of format is essential when branding yourself and your business. With the platform doing constant updates to their sizes and resolution, you’ll want to know what the most up to date specs are. Instagram has many areas in which you can post to, and each has its specific resolution sizes that are needed to know. This article goes over the dimension sizes and recommendations for each photo, graphics, videos, ad sizes, IGTV videos, Instagram Stories, and the cover sizes for Instagram Stories and IGTV. For example, the IG ad format and specifications are aspect ratios 1:1, 1.9:1, & 4:5 for square, landscape, and portrait images, respectively. You will also know how to crop your images based on what version you have and the basic video specifications, such as the file size, video and caption length, dimensions, and file format. Once you’ve optimized your image and video dimensions, you are all set to post!
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How to Be a Pure Artist By Letting Go of Your Ego and Detaching from Capitalism
Hey everyone, welcome our next podcast interviewee, Yoshino! Yoshino is an artist, entrepreneur, and photographer who owns an extraordinary art studio and collective Noh/Wave, which also has online workshops for artists. This episode focuses on the importance of listening and pursuing your creative ideas, remaining true to your craft to keep your artwork pure and unique, and how capitalism and commerce can play a negative role in creating art today. Click here to listen to episode 7 on iTunes under Creative Haven: How to Be a Pure Artist By Letting Go of Your Ego and Detaching from Capitalism
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"Everything is Music"-Shiva Heartening Clip
Lend another ear to listen to this heartening clip from our podcast interview with Shiva! Here she talks about how art is expressed through the actions you take in your life and how this changed perspective led her to get into her creative process easily. For the full episode, go to iTunes under Creative Haven: How Music Healed Her Physically And Lead To A New Meditative Music Experience
Colour Temperature
Uh oh! Looks like the lighting in your video is a little off. Having a blue or orange tint in your photos or videos doesn’t look natural. Adjusting the color temperature on your camera settings based on the light source of your environment can help make your videos and photos look accurate. If you’re confused by what color temperature is and how it affects your photos, don’t worry. Our research explains this concept to help you with your shoot!
You may notice that when shooting in various locations, there is a slight blue or orange tint to your video. This is due to your colour temperature. Colour temperature is an aspect of photography often overlooked by beginners, and can completely change the tone of the video or photo. We’re here to help you understand this photo to get the look you want just right.
So what is colour temperature? First of all, it has nothing to do with the actual temperature or heat of an object. Rather, it is a temperature of the hue a light source emits, measured in degrees Kelvin. (K) The 2 most common measurements of colour temperature are 3200K and 5600K. This is because indoor lights emit a temperature of roughly 3200K, known as “Tungsten” light, while the sun emits a temperature of 5600, known as “Daylight”. These are by no means the only existing measurements, but they are the most common ones.
So what does this have to do with photography? Colour temperature is an option in all cameras. The basic idea is this: if your camera’s colour temperature is set to the same colour temperature as the lights you are shooting with, everything will appear “normal” and a pure white object, such as a sheet of paper, will be white. If your camera’s colour temperature is lower than that of the lights, your image will appear blue, while if your camera’s colour temperature is higher than the lights, the image will appear orange. The larger the difference between the camera and light’s colour temperature, the more extreme this blue or orange hue will be.
Modern cameras have the ability to set the camera's colour temperature to exactly that of the lights automatically by taking a picture of a pure white object under the lights where they are shooting. On the other hand, you may set it to the presets of Tungsten and Daylight, or to a custom number. Colour temperature should always be taken into account when shooting a video, as it has dramatic effects on the tone and style.
The Complete Social Media Video Size Guideline
Is your video formatting giving you trouble? Are you finding it hard to update your social media video content strategy without knowing if your video meets the platforms’ video specifications? Video content is constantly being shared and uploaded across multiple platforms through different formats. A consumer or viewer must view your video without any technical problems on your end. You’ll learn which most up-to-date video dimensions, aspect ratios, and character limits are for each type of video and the purpose behind each one. Knowing what the video specs are before uploading will make you feel prepared in choosing which video ad type for Facebook or the preferred length of a video ad on LinkedIn, for example. If updated video specs come up, this article doesn’t stop at providing the video specs for major platforms. It also includes an up-to-date Google Doc link, for reference, that lists the social media platforms and their specific video specs. This article goes over the video guidelines for Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, YouTube, and Twitter.
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Empowering Women Through Dance and How To Make Dance Your Full-time Career
Open your ears for this empowering podcast! J-Kay, a dancer, B-girl, and teacher, uses her skills to teach dance workshops all over the world to empower women. As a member of the Supreme Beings, a breakdancing crew, and a performer of the stage show Nutcracker, she shares the process of getting sworn into the breakdancing crew and the importance of having an accepting and friendly community to have an engaging creative atmosphere. She also shares the difficulties of being a female in the dance scene as well as how to live a full-time career as a dancer. Check out this podcast on iTunes under Creative Haven here: Empowering Women Through Dance and How To Make Dance Your Full-time Career
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"You Have What it Takes"-Zach Benson Motivational Clip
Listen to this motivational clip from episode 3 of our podcast with Zach Benson. In this clip, he encourages those who are pursuing their craft to keep offering their ideas, thoughts and opinions because they are valuable. He also shares how his daily habits are a source of growth in his life. For the full episode, go on iTunes under Creative Haven:How His Passion for Dance Helped Him Create a 6-Figure Business and Now Works With Today's Top Influencers and Entrepreneurs !
The Rule of Thirds
Heard about the Rule of Thirds and are wondering how you can apply it to your videos and photos? Implementing the Rule of Thirds into your artwork will help create balanced and interesting photography and videography. Our informative video on the artistic technique provides examples from movies and photography that should be helpful for you.
Sometimes when shooting a production, it’s hard to decide how to frame things. After you’ve gone through all the work of pre-production, you’ll want everything to be perfect, and this includes composition. It’s not always easy to achieve these, but there are certain framing principles that help a lot. The most well-known of these is the rule of thirds.
So what exactly is the rule of thirds? Essentially, its imaginary lines, 2 vertical and 2 horizontal, that are placed in the frame. These 4 lines create 3 rows and 3 columns, for a grand total of 9 sections. It may sound complicated, but it's really anything but. What these imaginary lines have to do is essentially help make frames more balanced. When shooting, you can imagine these lines, or even many cameras have the option to put them up on the display. Then, you place objects, people, etc. on either the intersections between the lines, or just on the lines themselves. This creates a more balanced frame than just putting a subject directly in the middle of the frame, which is a common mistake of many new videographers. The rule of thirds is a great tool for both new and veteran videographers alike.
Import Your Photos and Videos to Your PC Easily!
Took that beautiful photo or mesmerizing video and can’t wait to import it to your PC? The ability to import photos and videos to your personal computer is necessary when you are creating your online business or creative portfolio. If you have a USB cable, phone (iPhone or Android), and your PC, then you’re ready to transfer your files. First, make sure your phone is connected to the PC by the USB cable, is on and open to transferring files. If you have an Android, check to see if your photos are in cloud storage such as One Drive and Google photos. You can select your photos from the cloud storage or from using the USB cable. If you have an iPhone, after connecting the USB cable, select Trust or Allow when the prompt “Trust This Computer” pops up on your device. If you have iCloud enabled, you will need to use the iCloud desktop app. On your PC, click the start button and select the photos or videos you would like to import. Have more questions about your devices, Windows 10, and USB cables? The article offers more helpful articles to answer those questions! Now you are ready to transfer your files!
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Hip Hop Culture As A Male Rite of Passage, Celebrating Parenthood In Hip Hop, and The Connection Between Creativity and Spirituality
Come listen to more inspiring stories from our podcast! In episode 5, our guest Marcus discusses how hip-hop culture is a part of the path to manhood, the connection between creativity and spirituality, and stresses the necessity to act on your creative thoughts as not fulfilling them will be doing a disservice to God. Marcus is a serial entrepreneur, cultural engineer, artist, and creator of HipHop Chocolates whose project, The Physics of HipHop, provides a space for Hip-Hop’s maturing population. Find this podcast on iTunes under Creative Haven here: Hip Hop Culture As A Male Rite of Passage, Celebrating Parenthood In Hip Hop, and The Connection Between Creativity and Spirituality