I think you're underexposing your images. They were hitting 60% on the waveforms. Don't be afraid of opening up a stop or two. You'd get better use of your latitude. But I do love those pastel colored sunsets. John had a couple of his own to share...
too many people
unaffordable real estate
smog in the L.A./Orange County/Riverside/San Bernardino area
always 80d is kind of boring
gas is 2.40 a gallon
waves are too crowded (except in winter)
no communities as everything is too spread out yet blends into one after another
housing is one track home after another
no yards
chicks are stuck up
I hear that John :-[ But at least smog = interesting sunsets. When I shot the stuff - I was actually helping a client learn how to edit his home movies and I took the dvx up to his roof for five min - I did not use the zibras and was really just grabing what I could. It will be a fun color correction experiment tho.
dude... I am in NY.... its liek 47 here already.... i'lltake lung cancer, for some warm weather during the winter..... Asa i am oout of school its off to San Francisco for me..... and all im briniging is my computer, (future DVX) Camera, and a few pairs of undies....
i think the exposure was fine on the first clips, of course the blacks werent black, but on a tv monitor, they prob looked fine, man I miss so-cal some days! :'(
[quote author=x2mag68 link=board=Clips;num=1096963331;start=0#10 date=10/05/04 at 23:14:07]dude... I am in NY.... its liek 47 here already.... i'lltake lung cancer, for some warm weather during the winter..... Asa i am oout of school its off to San Francisco for me..... and all im briniging is my computer, (future DVX) Camera, and a few pairs of undies.... [/quote]
The West Coast is great; speaking of the Bay Area; the home prioces there are worse than here (San Diego) but we are catching up apparently.
hell...over here in south orange county, you can get a nice 1000sqft 2 bedroom condo for only $400,000...sheesh...by the way tc, how bout dem A's and Giants... ;D
Nice, I was born in San Clemente and grew up between there and SJC. Is that just south of the peir or closer to Cotton's Point?
I am now in Columbus, Oh, where I live in a brand new 2 year old 2500 sq foot house (2 bedrooms, 3 baths, finished basement) in a great neighbrohood that costed $180,000. I have friends who have similar places in OC that cost triple, (Ladera Ranch!)
It is in the southern most tip of San Clemente, south of the state beach, next to camp pendleton - private neighborhood like most of new south county (orange county) :-/
it looks normal for cinelike D gamma setting...noisy and faded...
For a punchier and cleaner look with the same dynamic range, just use the "high" gamma setting, dial down the chroma 3 clicks, set the v detail to "thin", and detail to 0, and the image will become more alive.