low light shooting

SlightlyHuman

SlightlyHuman

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im shooting a short snowboard video this winter, i have the 100B, a lot of times i shoot at night at the resorts so lighting is pretty lame, i try to just keep the shuuter spped low and the iris open, ive tried playing with the gain settings, mostly on medium but it seems like im getting a lot of noise thru the viewfinder and LCD screen, havent checked it on the computer but was wondering will this noise show up after capture or will it be clear?

are there any better tips to shooting in low light conditions without additional lighting?
 
Oh, it will show up. You can be sure of that!

Really, without lighting, there isn't much you can do. This is true on the DVX, the RED, or even film. Low light = noise/grain. Nature of the game.
 
The DVX and most SD cameras aren't the best at night.

Can you get some Flood Lights? (Yea may be tough since the snowboarder would be moving rapidly down a hill) or is it more Vert, Street kind of style,? (Which in case, flood lights would be good)

Keep your shutter at around 1/24, 160. Set your MASTER PED above 0. (Try not to go to high).

But really focus on getting lighting. (Flood lights, work lights would work)

Try to shoot in the day time! :)

Good luck,

Robbie
 
I own a DVX-100a, and I've shot just finished shooting a Doc mostly at night with little or no lights and the results are excellent. I would say, however, that if your shoot is far away from lights that your going to have problems, and any camera, be it an ARRI 35 or a HV30 need light to record well. I myself never touch the gain control.

Some ideas:

Get work lights and rig them in a line so your subjects will flash in and out light and you will get some excellent silouhettes. I don't know how many you will need, but they aren't expensive.

Don't shoot at night. Get a Day for Night filter and shoot late in the afternoon or early in the morning, stopping down your lens.

Good luck with your project.
 
Or white balance on a red card (cool card) and do the same thing

mburgh said:
Don't shoot at night. Get a Day for Night filter and shoot late in the afternoon or early in the morning, stopping down your lens.

Good luck with your project.
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im shooting in park, i wouldnt shoot back country at night haha, and theres no good mountains anywhere to find good lines.

jambredz, where do I get a red card? is it just a straight up red coloured card? because I have access to high quality digital printers that I can do that on.
 
You're other option might be to shoot in 60i instead of 24p.........progressive seems to need more light than interlaced........also play with the scene files to find one that allows more light due to coloration,and the colder the better.......I shoot alot of low light video in the woods and i have a couple of scene files programed in that seem to brighten the picture w/o bumping the gain at all, also since your shooting action shots your footage won't have any judder, which you can get with progressive.

Just a thought......
 
yeh simplehuman...white balancing on a regualar red card or variations of red will achieve a cooler look. U can buy cool and warm cards but i dont see why if one can get any red thing to white balance off. i did it yesterday white balanced off a red jacket i had :D
 
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