AF100 (AF104) studio fashion shoot

Good job. You're right though you've got to watch for exposure, still you were in a quite light-controlled environment.... I can't imagine if it's not controlled. There's a shot with the straight hair blond women (with green shade) where you see her eyes being overexposed (and I wasn't looking for it, but it was obvious) and it doesn't look good. Wondering more and more if AF100 can handle outdoor contrasty scenes properly.
 
obonin said:
Good job. You're right though you've got to watch for exposure, still you were in a quite light-controlled environment.... I can't imagine if it's not controlled. There's a shot with the straight hair blond women (with green shade) where you see her eyes being overexposed (and I wasn't looking for it, but it was obvious) and it doesn't look good. Wondering more and more if AF100 can handle outdoor contrasty scenes properly.
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Any camera ...film , digital requires control of contrast. Indoors or out doors. The AF 100 can handle contrast if you can manage it.

The AF 100 is a production camera ( ie. not a snap camera) and like any pro camera...requires the same consideration. Image control does not happen by itself automatically.
 
Shooter said:
Any camera ...film , digital requires control of contrast. Indoors or out doors. The AF 100 can handle contrast if you can manage it.

The AF 100 is a production camera ( ie. not a snap camera) and like any pro camera...requires the same consideration. Image control does not happen by itself automatically.
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I understand, but even by someone who seems to know what he is doing, you're still getting those ugly highlights. Thinking you should never shoot an image with high contrast is not acceptable, we're all going to have someone's face, or something else, with some bright background at some point. So avoiding overexposure of some section of your picture is not going to work all the time. And I'm always working with zebras of course, but still... if you need the details in that person's face, with that bright light coming from the outside.

Check out another video that was posted here shot in the grand canyon, and at 40 or 42 seconds the camera goes up and shows a bit of some top part of the canyon exposed to the sun, the colors are ugly. How do you avoid that?
 
Thinking you should never shoot an image with high contrast is not acceptable,
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Well ..its a fact of photography and not a matter of "acceptable" that one is dealing with when "taking a shot" .

What we do is control the image to make it work and appear contrasty or whatever.

Every camera (and the media it shoots to) is different. They all have a limitation.

NONE of them can manage to capture the contrast that the eye can perceive so it must be controlled to achieve an "acceptable" result. There a things that you just can not shoot with out controlling the light ratio.

Methods mainly are around balancing up the ratio of highlight to shadow. Lights, reflectors, scrim frames,negative fill, dif frames, overheads etc..

Sometime we shoot stuff that should not be shot or not make the final cut. Thats another way to deal with the issue.
 
curves in post man, the top of the mountains can easily be "transitioned" to appear nice and smooth. Just not straight out of the camera. I guarantee.
 
Thanks everyone, for the comments,
I still dialing in settings, looking for the best combination, and it can change from the shooting conditions, if I remember correctly I dialed sharpness -4, pedestal -2, chroma -3, cineD, that's it basically,
then keeping exposure, watching highlights clipping is important, using zebra 80 and 100, biggest problem shooting faces is chroma clipping, there careful dialing of chroma in setup and exposure can make or brake the picture.
 
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