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Increasing the ISO setting on your camera makes your camera's sensor more sensitive to light. 

But why wouldn't you just want more light sensitivity? More light is almost always good right?

Unfortunately not.

In this episode I'll discuss ISO, which is the last of the three camera settings that impact the exposure triangle, and how it works. I'll also discuss the differences between film grain and camera noise, as well as how to add or remove each.

If you shoot a video in an automatic mode, like Aperture priority, you can get some fairly unnatural looking video. 

It won't look smooth. Movement will look jittery and jumpy. And when your videos don't look like real life, the viewer will be distracted from the message you're trying to deliver. 

That's why you'll want to shoot in manual mode to pick the proper shutter speed and frame rate to get the best looking video possible.

In this episode I discuss what to set those at and how they effect what your video looks like. 

There are a ton of camera settings you can tweak and play with, but there are three that are the foundation for making your image look properly exposed.

Aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.

In today's episode of the podcast I discuss aperture. What it is, why it matters, and how it helps you get a buttery blurred background in your videos.