FOV-KingRanch
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Intend on shooting a documentary on my sons High School Baseball team this year. Most footage will be at night under stadium lighting. Any suggestions on settings etc... would be appreciated.
Shooting Sports footage
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Re: Shooting Sports footage
can you get some test shots asap to see what the lighting looks like?
you might not have a problem and the lighting might look great.
i use the warmcards.com and those have helped a lot but a few times i thought i was going to have a nightmare trying to shoot under flourescents and they ended up being the newer full spectrums of some sort because it came out better with a standard white balance than with the special minus green that the warm cards provides.
matthew
can you get some test shots asap to see what the lighting looks like?
you might not have a problem and the lighting might look great.
i use the warmcards.com and those have helped a lot but a few times i thought i was going to have a nightmare trying to shoot under flourescents and they ended up being the newer full spectrums of some sort because it came out better with a standard white balance than with the special minus green that the warm cards provides.
matthew
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Re: Shooting Sports footage
Sorry to hijack here. I too use and love the warmcards. But I hate the minus green. I find that it makes things shift way to much to the magenta.
Once again sorry, and back to your thread.
The old sports mercury vapour lights were a dog to balance too. But the bulbs used now are not bad. Most of them tend to be a bit cool, but not bad. Use them to your advantage. You can get some great artistic flairs, which make nice edit points.
Sorry to hijack here. I too use and love the warmcards. But I hate the minus green. I find that it makes things shift way to much to the magenta.
Once again sorry, and back to your thread.
The old sports mercury vapour lights were a dog to balance too. But the bulbs used now are not bad. Most of them tend to be a bit cool, but not bad. Use them to your advantage. You can get some great artistic flairs, which make nice edit points.
Re: Shooting Sports footage
I am currently shooting footage of my high school wrestling team, and for most of it I am shooting 24pa with a 1/48 shutter speed and white balancing to the light that is in the gym. I have shot in some pretty dark gyms, and just adjusted the camera accordingly, trying not to go under a 1/48 shutter speed. I don't plan on doing any slow motion, but if I did, I would most likely set up an identical scene file, changing only the frame rate to 60i for the smoothest slow motion. You may want to use warm cards, but the in camera color settings usually yield pretty good results and as of yet I haven't had any problems shooting under flourescents. A word of caution though, DONT TRUST THE CALIBRATION OF THE LCD! and always use your Zebra at 100 % so as not to get blow outs in the brightest areas of the picture. You can trust the zebra, but not the monitor.....
I am currently shooting footage of my high school wrestling team, and for most of it I am shooting 24pa with a 1/48 shutter speed and white balancing to the light that is in the gym. I have shot in some pretty dark gyms, and just adjusted the camera accordingly, trying not to go under a 1/48 shutter speed. I don't plan on doing any slow motion, but if I did, I would most likely set up an identical scene file, changing only the frame rate to 60i for the smoothest slow motion. You may want to use warm cards, but the in camera color settings usually yield pretty good results and as of yet I haven't had any problems shooting under flourescents. A word of caution though, DONT TRUST THE CALIBRATION OF THE LCD! and always use your Zebra at 100 % so as not to get blow outs in the brightest areas of the picture. You can trust the zebra, but not the monitor.....