matching shots with different shutter speeds

Imaginate

Imaginate

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I was shooting a scene outside , two people talking around some parked cars. It was very bright and I wanted a short depth of field, even after using the ND filter the shot was still too bright, I bumped up the shutter speed to 1/500 so I could lower my F stop. All of the other scenes for this film were shot at 1/60 sec.
Does this create a problem when mixing this 1/500 footage with others shot at 1/60.

There is an obvious difference in blur when you compare footage shot at 1/30 of a second or lower and high shutter speeds but when it comes to 60 and up its a lot more subtle when it comes to shooting slow moving talking heads.

I've noticed some DOP's will set the camera to 1/60 and never touch it. Why is that?
 
Anything faster than 1/60 (1/48 for 24p) is basically a special effect. It will look stroby, hyper-real, super-crisp.

Instead of changing the shutter to cut light, you should have added ND filters. Keep the shutter at 1/60 and use ND to fine tune to the iris setting you want.
 
Think about your story. In this case, it might be best to either delete the scene, or have it be intentionally different from the rest. Add some color grading, for example, to make it contrast against other scenes. As long as it supports the ideas you're trying to convey, it should be fine.
 
I guess thats why people need matt boxes eh? Does ND glass on the lense ever distort the image or cause loss of resolution?
 
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