Shead some light on my dark footage!

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Dustmatik

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Yesterday i shot my 20th (er so) wedding and it was my very first wedding shooting with the Dvx 100b. before this event i had been shooting with VX 2100s, PD 150s, and the FX1 Z1u......all sony. It's a strange change when it comes to lighting the Dvx it felt a little bit harder to adjust and get good picture. When time was available i rolled with all my settings manual but from the ceremony on when we started cookin i threw it on auto. This is where my big question comes in. In general is it better to shoot Darker footage or manually (with iris/db) capture your footage a the brighter side? i felt while every thing was in auto that my picture was coming out darker, like the camera was gravitating towards that look when it had the opportunity.
-Any information or advice on the subject would be great thanks.:dankk2:
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I always shoot in manual and adjust as I see needed. During one of the receptions it got in credibly dark so I rewhitebalanced which helped a smidge and unfortunatly had to bump up the gain all the way. I 'fixed it in post' a little bit and made it a little brighter. It wasn't the best looking thing but the bride and groom loved it and that's all that matters in the long wrong.

During the ceremony the lighting stayed the same (I actually had them turn on more lights before it started which helped) but that came out looking good.
 
. In general is it better to shoot Darker footage or manually (with iris/db) capture your footage a the brighter side?
You should never ever shoot in AUTO IRIS, as camera doesnt know what your object is to expose correctly. Try to develop a comfortable holding method that will allow you to place one of your finger on the iris ring... I do use AUTO FOCUS though, since continous shooting is really important...
A footage brightned up in the post will never look as good as a footage exposed properly while shooting...
 
Part of the reason your footage may seem dark when in auto (besides exposing for the wrong thing) is that the auto iris is often set to expose lower than 'optimum'. There is a menu setting where you can adjust how the auto iris reacts.

Definitely shoot manual if you can though :)
 
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