Shooting on cloudy/rainy days, how can I get the best picture?

MatthewC

MatthewC

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I'm doing a small behind the scenes for building a mountain bike trail for a director of mountain bike movies. It's going to be light rain and cloudy tomorrow.

What can I do to get the best colours and picture in those types of conditions? Just open the Iris more without overexposing?
 
Hey Matt, who are you doing the behind the scenes for? I am interested since you said it was mountain biking. As for getting the best picture, it's going to be tough to get anything epic when it's overcast, but yes, you generally would want to open the iris more, and also consider lowering your master ped. Also consider tweaking it in post by adding more contrast etc etc.....
 
PDX_DVX said:
Hey Matt, who are you doing the behind the scenes for? I am interested since you said it was mountain biking. As for getting the best picture, it's going to be tough to get anything epic when it's overcast, but yes, you generally would want to open the iris more, and also consider lowering your master ped. Also consider tweaking it in post by adding more contrast etc etc.....
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I'm doing it for a guy named Bjorne. He does the "Kranked" series of mountain biking films. I believe he's actually heading off on a roadtrip down your way. Do you know him? I wouldn't be surprised if you know him or are actually going to be seeing him sometime soon. :-)

Sweet. Some nice tips. So open the Iris, but don't overexpose, and lower the Master pedestal to make the darks a little darker, eliminating any milkyness that might end up in the darker areas?
I always tweak my contrast in post. I post a lot of screens in the sample area with adjusted contrast. I love fooling around with that stuff.

My worst problem is overexposing a grey/white sky and still having my greens not so nice liking. Contrast adjusting helps a little.
 
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What about things like polarizing or grad filters, could that help in a case like this where you want to expose the sky differently than the rest of the image?
 
are you doing any interviews or anything like that? get a big black foamcore, which will punch up the contrast. use it in the same way you would a white foamcore board. it just sucks light and causes nice contrast and shading of the interview subject's face. amazing stuff.
 
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