Start with the camera's neutral settings and then play with combinations of shutter speeds and apertures. In learning, I recommend "shoot anything that moves...and some things that don't" meaning trial and error. Experiment by shooting three passes of different locked-down shots...one underexposed, one over and one you think is "just right." Then when you import into your edit application, you can get to know the difference between your camera monitor and computer monitor... this experimenting will payoff when you're under the gun on a real shoot and don't have time for multiple passes.
T2i Graded In Apple Color. What Do You Think?
- Thread starter brandondull
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You beat me to it. Those pans are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too fast. You need to learn to pan MUCH slower than this!
brandondull
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i dont care if my pans are to fast. IT WAS FREE HAND. The thread title DOES NOT say look at my pans! holy crap bashers on my thread. look at my color grading. I already got my answers anyhow & certainly dont need one more person to repeat "your pans are to fast."
let me take a bow down to all the PERFECT professionals that PAN so PERFECTLY.
let me take a bow down to all the PERFECT professionals that PAN so PERFECTLY.
Angry Leprechaun
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Its definitely over exposed in certain areas. For outdoors I would definitely look into getting an ND filter. And when you expose your shot, on the light meter at the bottom of the screen make sure its slightly under exposed. Keep it close to the middle, but a little bit under exposed is better than over exposed.
As for using Color, pay attention to your RGB expose bars on the left hand side. You want them close to the top and bottom bars but if you go past those there will be problems with over exposure and under exposure.
I found a really great 6 part tutorial on how to use Color on DigitalCinemaLessons.com but I think their site's down or something. Its at least not working for me but you're welcome to try. They helped me out a lot.
As for using Color, pay attention to your RGB expose bars on the left hand side. You want them close to the top and bottom bars but if you go past those there will be problems with over exposure and under exposure.
I found a really great 6 part tutorial on how to use Color on DigitalCinemaLessons.com but I think their site's down or something. Its at least not working for me but you're welcome to try. They helped me out a lot.
refocusedmedia
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Your color grade would be more appealing if your pans were slower.
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brandondull
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brandondull
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what about auto iris?
Disable auto everything to shoot video. Any type of auto exposure is going to take the image back to where the camera thinks it should be, which is going to be overexposed on the T2i.
Can you post an original image and after? Then we can help further. Right off the bat I would say contrast is pushed too high and you lost a lot of detail which can make it look over processed. The colors could use some fine adjusting too. What are you going for in terms of a look?