Chicago Footage

Do you have a matte box? On the outdoor shots a polarizer or ND filter would probably help, you can mount those directly to the lens without a matte box.

There is a fair amount of "jello" in many of the clips, it appears that you used Smoothcam [or some type of image stabilization], depending on the conditions [and that you seem to be shooting hand held] a matte box might exacerbate this. If your trying to decide what gives you the most bang for your production buck I'd look into a good mono pod and/or tripod.

I have a matte box that I used quite a bit when I first got it, but it adds a lot of additional expense and complexity and I find I use it a lot less, but it really depends on what your trying to do. Beyond shooting single camera narrative, I have not found a lot of uses for mine. I am going to start playing with different types of filters but I think that's because I spent so much money on it I'm trying to find ways to use it.
 
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