Few Questions | First Shoot Tomorrow

Jordan Berry

Jordan Berry

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Hello,

Tomorrow is my first shoot with the HMC-150. I got my camera last week.

I have a few questions, if no one minds me asking...

1) I will be shooting outside on a sunny day. I've used 100% Zebra in the past to check for over exposure. What is the use of 105% Zebra? 70% is okay to have on the cheek bones, nose?

2) I do understand how a waveform works. Is there anything useful I need to know about the waveform with the HMC-150. So far I just know I shouldn't have anything above 100 or below 0. As far as the distribution on the graph.. I don't know how to read it for under exposer. I assume on a sunny day most of my graph will be above 50?

3) What scene file settings do you suggest? The video is a love story. I'm considering just going stock scene file 1 so I have more options in post.

Thank you for your time!

Best regards,

Jordan Berry
 
Hi Jordan,

I have stayed with 100% zebras and really try to keep it off of their face. Hopefully they are not wearing white clothing, but if they are, I have sacraficed some detail in white clothing to get the exposure correct on their face.

Since you will be outside with plenty of sun, I would experiment with Scene Files 5 & 6. Another thing to consider with outdoor shooting, it to use your ND filters so you can open up the iris. Not only will it make it easier to get a shallow DoF, but when shooting into the sun, it will hide any specs of dust that may get on your lens.

Have fun!
 
Jordan Berry said:
2) I do understand how a waveform works. Is there anything useful I need to know about the waveform with the HMC-150. So far I just know I shouldn't have anything above 100 or below 0. As far as the distribution on the graph.. I don't know how to read it for under exposer. I assume on a sunny day most of my graph will be above 50?
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Shouldn't the graph still be as full as possible? But then again your subject exposure is the most important.

I will be shooting a Theater show and I have used the auto shutter before. It turned out terrible, Wide shots make the stage way over exposed since it was trying to pick up the dark audience.

Now that i will be shooting manual, wont my wave form be on the darker side? I wont have a monitor for a few more months...
 
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