What am I doing wrong?

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End of Fall

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O7T_BMlnF4

Detail level is -2 and Master ped is -6 everything else is 0

Gamma: B. Press
Knee: High
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It just seems like its really dark to me.

Also when I was interviewing a parent in the hallway, my professor had said I didn't expose for the woman. I exposed for the hallway. How do I fix from blowing out the picture?
 
Light your subjects more.
In most of those scenes the brightest spot is some part of the background.
If the scene is bright - make the subject brighter then close down the iris or use a ND filter to get back in a non blown out range.
Lighting takes LOTS of experimentation.
Enjoy it.
 
We didn't get to bring our light kit into the Hospital, we wanted to set up in a office but all the offices were far from where we were shooting. So our lights were denied access into the building.

Luckily the photo guys had lights so we used his lights but I was not able to move them or the light stand behind the interviewee.

Explain more about this lighting you talk of, I was told that I need to over light the talent but on my DVX LCD screen it shows his face being SUPER red.
 
What f-stop are you using? If you are closing down, you may need to open up... Seems your lighting is ok but lens may be closed down too much ... Also the 1st interview is way SOFT IMO
 
End of Fall said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O7T_BMlnF4

Detail level is -2 and Master ped is -6 everything else is 0

Gamma: B. Press
Knee: High
Matrix Norm


It just seems like its really dark to me.

Also when I was interviewing a parent in the hallway, my professor had said I didn't expose for the woman. I exposed for the hallway. How do I fix from blowing out the picture?
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You don't. Either you blow it out or you move your subject so they're not in front a of a bright window or whatever. If you are doing doc work you expose for the subject. You may try to split the difference a little and compensate in post, but you have to light for your subject. You'll see blown out windows, etc. in doc work all the time.

End of Fall said:
2.8 was the stop on the 50mm lens. I'm not sure what I had the fstop set for in the DVX.
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Ohhhhhhh .... you're using a 35mm adapter. Now you tell us :)
35mm adapter = the place where light goes to die.
You have to have light if you are working with a 35mm. Period.
Your DVX fstop should almost always be set to wide open when you are using a 35mm adapter. Maybe you could get away with the available light with your adapter, but if you don't know what your DVX was at, then that could be the problem or what's making the problem much much worse.

Basically you should not use an adapter in low light doc work. Makes no sense. Yeah you got SDOF but you can't see anything and the number one goal in doc work is record the event, not to look like film.

So don't use the adaptor / and or invest in an on camera batttery powered light for instances when you cannot bring any other light support.
 
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