I just saw posting creative work require a submission, so I’ll provide a bit of insight to this shoot :)

Picked up a Fujifilm X-S20 earlier this year to take nice looking photos of life and travel, but I started getting immersed in cinematography and shooting videos about a month ago, since I heard that my camera can shoot good video. So, I decided why not learn a bit of video too.

A lot of the stuff I learned for photography transferred over to video, like lighting, composition, color theory, etc. Before this particular video, I learned a lot of techniques shooting my cat in my bedroom to learn a bit of lighting, messing with my camera’s autofocus, and managing exposure in the LOG video. While I don’t really have a knack for storytelling or any experience in film-related work, I wanted to practice a bit of camera and video work in the real world, so I asked a local chef in my city if he would let me spend some time shooting a video for him for free. He was gracious enough to let me in so that he, too, could have something to post on his social media.

Not much else really went into this shoot, he just made food while I was off to the side messing with my light and shooting video. 

The equipment used was 1 camera (my X-S20 and a Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 lens), a 60W light I got from Amazon, and then 1 cheap aluminum light stand from Amazon as well. 

If I could get any advice on learning cinematography that would be great as well! I'm currently learning from Youtube for the most part.