We Have Film School At Home

After the issues with outdoor shooting last week, I cleaned my lens – in this case a Takumar F1.2 50mm, and did some shooting outside. While the universal glow effect did disappear with a clean lens, there were still some dots that appeared in the image, which you can see below. Given this, I took a look inside my camera and saw that there were some spots. While they initially looked like spots on the sensor, they were in fact spots on the IR-cut filter, which covers the sensor itself. I cleaned those up, and when the IR-cut filter looked clean, I shot some additional footage, some of it straight into the sun, and as you can see, it looks like the image is for all intents and purposes free of spots. There are of course lens flares galore with the Takumar, but that’s perfectly fine. And the last few images that you see out of the camera when everything is clean, look really spectacular I think.

Next week, I think I’m going to tackle a series of projects, where I find a scene from a movie, and shoot something similar to it, just to get a sense of how to set things up for a shot or series of shots. This will, I guess, require a bit of acting, but all the more things that I will learn as a part of increasing my skill set.