picture quality of this

[mightyjoe]

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o167/mightyjoe_02/Untitled400410805.jpgthis was bright and sunny day when i filmed this but i'm not that thrilled.... look at the one kid's eyes in the tan there are dark around them and all the kids are like that, except closeups there are ok...and i dunno it looked a little off especially with the faces..tell me why this happened you think. i appreciate the help b\c that helps me do better
heres a couple other pics
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o167/mightyjoe_02/medival2.png

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o167/mightyjoe_02/Untitled200274112.png

[J.R. Hudson]

Oh gee, I don't know

Maybe because the sun tends to cast a shadow in the direction it is facing ?

Just a hunch

[mightyjoe]

no i know that...but on everyone only there eyes, its shadows but not from sunlight i dont think

[J.R. Hudson]

It's because the camera isn't exposed to pick up these shadows.

If it was, everything would be blown out. There are shadows on the pants, the trees, etc

[mightyjoe]

ok thanks very much for the feedback...1 follow up question how do you think i did, since this was the first worthwild thing i shot on the xl2

[sundance44ANCE44]

Joe, Your Not Filming In A Hollywood Studio And Cant Control All Of The Conditions Esp Where The Shadows Will Fall. If Nothing Else Position The Players Facing The Sun, That Should Help Some. The Frames Looked Pretty Decent To Me. If The Players Wernt Moving You Could Have Used A Reflector But In This Instance That Would Have Been Next To Impossible.

[sundance44ANCE44]

Oh, Btw First Frame Looks A Little Dark The Other Two Look Great.

[Spartacus]

I wanna add that shoulder panning the camera infront of trees and woods (things with A LOT of fine detail...), probably is the worst task for a highly compressed medium like miniDV.
There´s so much changing information that the codec really is under full load, resulting in a kind of sh*tty picture...
Also for situations like this you might wanne use blackstretch (if i recall correctly) on the XL2 to record more detail in the shadows, any setting that compresses the shadows
eg for a certain kind of "film" look will only worsen the contrast problem...
For shooting sports playing with the shutter can also help and always check focus, even in SD...
Just learn and become better, no offence, but it isn´t the XL´s fault...
I was always amazed when Disjecta showed his miniDV originated nature films, but he only had slow movement if all in them...

[mightyjoe]

thanks evryone for your feedback and i will take everything you said into consideration next time