Camera Enhancements: Cinematic Optics for Your Images

0:00Hey guys, Max here from Pray.com and now I'm going to show you our brand new feature we just released, camera enhancements inside the image generation tab. So, let's take a look at this. Um, now you'll see in all of your shot boxes a camera enhancements button. If you click on that, you'll be able to really dial in your camera settings when you're image generating. And what we've done here is you can see a camera looks. So these are pre-made looks that we already

0:33have in here for you. Um an anamorphic drama look. It gives you that anamorphic lens flares, the macro details for um some really nice ultra close texture and um an epic telephoto one. Right. So you can go in here, use some of the presets that we have, but also you can dial in the focal length. So a 200 millimeter lens, this is your heavy telephoto, those long lenses, right? Or an 18 mm on the other side of the spectrum, which is

1:06really going to give you that wide angle look. Sometimes may have that um it's almost like a fisheye, but it'll distort the edges and it'll give you a different look. And I'll show you what that looks like in a little bit. And then in terms of the depth of field, this is really nice. So you can have ultra shallow, which is a ton of uh blur in the background, a lot of background blur, and then your f-stop at 16, which will really try to um get everything in focus

1:35almost. Right? So those are the ranges right there. Ultra shallow, shallow, moderate, right? And then your uh maximum at 16. And so we also have our different types of lenses. So, anamorphic lenses for certain types of horizontal lens flares and um spherical, which is probably what you're going to end up using the most. And then we have a macro lens in here as well. And then shot size, too. So, typically this is going to be on auto, but if you want a different shot size, you can, you know,

2:06dial that in with an extreme closeup or an extreme long shot, right? And so we have those in here so that you can really get advanced and detailed on your shots. And then in terms of the lighting, remember all of these will be on auto. Pray Production Studio will choose select one of these for you. But you can get in here and change them up yourself. So you know if you want to get that silhouette shot, we have that here.

2:34Um dramatic shadows, which also produces a really nice one. And also the back lit. I would play around with this if you're ever doing sunsets or sunrise shots. So, you go in here, you make some adjustments, you know, you do a 200 millimeter with ultra shallow um depth of field, which is going to be f-stop 1.2, maybe an anamorphic lens. And then you're going to save it. That will save your settings. And then you'll pick your image generator. I typically like to use Open AI's 2.0 0 or even uh Nano Banana

3:07uh Pro does really well too. And then you'll generate that image and so I can show you what that looks like. So this one right here. So you can take your mouse, hover over the camera settings and it will tell you what settings you used on the generation. So that's really nice just in case you forgot what you did. So as you can see here, this is a 200 millimeter anamorphic lens with the f-stop 1.2. That's that depth of field where everything's blurred out in the background, right? And then you have your line right here, nice in focus. If

3:39you look at this shot, this is the opposite. So, this is an 18 mm lens. So, the shorter lens with a f-stop of 16. So, a lot more in focus, right? So, all of this is in focus, even the trees in the background. And you could see this sort of distortion on the edges, right, of this 18 mm lens. And then even the lion, too. So, if I go back and show you 200 millimeter lens and the 18 mm lens, right? And I'll also show you here on

4:11another project what the difference in those settings look like. So, this one right here, 100 millimeter lens with a f-stop of 1.2. So again, that ultra shallow depth of field where everything in the background is really blurred out and then our subject is in focus. So that's that anamorphic lens two. And this one, which is an 18 mm lens, depth of field of 16. So I'm just I'm using the extremes of both sides to really

4:43show you the difference in what a um 100 millimeter 200 millimeter lens with that shallow depth of field 1.2 two and a 18 millimeter lens with everything in focus. Not necessarily everything, but that f-stop at 16 where the majority of your image is in focus. And you can see the distortion of our main character here on that 18 millimeter lens versus the 100 millimeter lens, right? It looks a little more natural here. This kind of

5:14gives you that stylized look almost of that 18 millimeter lens which really is kind of distorting the edges, right? And it's not a fisheye, but it's almost that fisheye type of look. So, this is the brand new camera enhancements tool inside of Pray Production Studio. Play around with it. Play around with all these settings, the different lenses, the focal lengths. even try out some of these really nice pre-made camera looks that we have in here for you, too, which

5:46are really cool. And let us know what you think. All right, get out there and start making some epic videos.