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skankib

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Sorry it always seems like i'm asking questions rather than answering them. Anyway here's another:

I'm shooting a music video in under a month and have been doing loads of tests. The problem is with my skies...they are blowing out quite a bit(over-exposed). I've been shooting using a canon nd filter to try and sort it out and it does work under certain conditions....where it doesnt it's usually fairly cloudy. I've been closing the iris but that tends to darken the foreground too much - I just cant find the balance.

Are there an tips/settings or anything to help me overcome this problem.

Thanks in advance.

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You can't have bright skies and shaded subjects in the same shot. Video doesn't have enough latitude to capture both, so you either blow out the skies or lose the shaded stuff.

You have to compensate with lighting. Use bounce cards and reflectors on the subject to bring up their light level. Or, try a graduated ND filter, one that will darken the sky but be clear for shooting the subjects.
 
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Yeah tried built-in nd filters...i suppose its just about playing around to find that balance.

Barry- its not as easy as that when ones dealing with lanscapes and not one defined (closeup) object in foreground...i kinda need to light the entire foreground. Will try a graduated ND filter...

It wasnt helping with the light continually changing as weather conditions were all over the place when doing the tests...hoping for constant weather on the shoot-day.

thanks...

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I hate ND (i got used to the one on GL-1 being ****) and have found that a good circ polarizer will stop sky from blowing out.
 
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I'd have to disagree...if your sky is insanely blown out, you can't really do anything about it. For the polarizer to work, there's normally *some* detail in the picture in the first place. If you have a purely white sky, normally a grad filter is the best way to go.
 
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Dammit, Mike go back to your old avatar and leave mine alone. ;)

How can I ever aspire to greatness with peeps stealing my *product branding*?! ::)
 
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LOL is this better Terry?

haha sorry, the url that had my old one is offline, so it's lost forever (or till I get off my ass and get a new one). I actually completely didn't realize it was yours, I was trying to get an original one :P

So does this avatar rip anyone else off? Speak now or forever hold your peace 8)
 
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Thanks!!! ;D ;D ;D

I s'pose I need to get someone to design a unique avatar and host it for me. ;)
 
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Grad ND is your best bet as Barry mentioned if you have a very large foreground object, as long as it doesnt extend into the sky.

You can also try ultracons or the Digicon filters, they do a pretty good job compressing the latitude.
 
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