Nikon D90 Existing light

[syberfilm]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xX3VFK0Aek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHS4hMpjuBM)



This was shot in a dark office with some light coming through the windows.

I did a little color grading that made it a bit more darker.. Except the elevator shot is raw footage.

Nikon D90
Nikon 35mm F/1.4 lens
1600 ISO

[jeracravo]

how do you know the ISO?

[jonE5]

I think your coloring is a little off, the skintones look slightly orange. I had this same problem on my last project, and it was due to my laptop LCD monitor was not accurate. It looked awesome on my laptop then when i played the footage on a TV or projector it looked awful, and as orange as people made of cheetos, may need to look into this to. Im new to the color correction process as well and its a little tricky.

Just an editorial note, all the text and expecially saying a woody allen film seemed to detract from the work.

Aside from that, the little footage you had looked good, im a bit jealous of your 35mm 1.4.

The footage did seem to skip from time to time, im wondering though if thats not youtube or my computer and not the footage itself.

[syberfilm]

It actually says VVoody Allen.. With Two V's.. I was just making a joke for one of my actors.. He hates him... You are right about the orange cast on skin tones,, I found if you use a blue card to white balance off of it helps.. The skipping is probably due to youtube.

In the elevator there was an orange light.. So I just left it as is... I did not color grade half the shots in the video.. I will color grade the entire thing soon with different scenes and make it and take out the crappy titles like you said on the next one..

Thanks for your input.

[syberfilm]

For ISO when you are shooting manually it says the ISO on the bottom of the LCD screen. I don't know if this is accurate or not though.

[jonE5]

that iso is not accurate, for when in live view mode (unfortunately)

The only think you can set is aperature and thats if you do that ae lock with a manual lens trick, to trick the camera. The camera sets shutter speed and iso on its own (sometimes frustratingly so), and can often insert the wrong iso resulting in unwanted grain etc...

This is the main reason i am wishing for the funds to get a 7D right now.

That said, the OP's footage actually looks decently grain free for the type of lighting (probably in part due to his awesome fast galss) so good job on that.

[damonb]

I think your coloring is a little off, the skintones look slightly orange. I had this same problem on my last project, and it was due to my laptop LCD monitor was not accurate. It looked awesome on my laptop then when i played the footage on a TV or projector it looked awful, and as orange as people made of cheetos, may need to look into this to. Im new to the color correction process as well and its a little tricky.

Hey jonE5, my sympathies on skin tone. Skin tone is probably the one thing that has to be nailed and with the digital age and so many different kinds of screens (all of which will render your image differently as you know), it's so difficult to nail it. Even with colour correction, unless you're looking at a reference monitor and/or seeing your image on the screening medium you intend it to appear on, skin is very very tricky, but it is also the thing to expose for. Music videos can get away with all kinds of rendering, mind you.