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Widescreen
09-11-2003, 10:36 PM
I had to shoot a burial in the country yesterday. It was with aboriginal people and a 100 year old body was being returned from the museum to its burial ground in a tree. This was not being done until late afternoon. The light was going and I had 2 i/v's to do and overlay....

I shot on filter 2 using additional filters until I had to change to filter 3...and finally had to change to filter 1. Trouble is....there was no sun as it was very grey and overcast...so I put in a red grad filter to give a bit in the sky but shooting on filter 1, the pics looked like I could have shot it in the afternoon. I shoot on Sony SX, and it was that crappy overcast sky, dull and flat and without a sunset to give any reference to it being dusk, it looked like the middle of the day....

Any ideas how I could have improved the situation. There was a campfire later, but those cameras see so well you almost had to wait until dark for it to look like dark!

shootcam
09-11-2003, 10:46 PM
Simple suggestion, use a monitor if available. And you are correct those cameras pick up an incredible amount of light. Dusk and dawn are no time to experiment on color balances, and Matt filters, as you now know. Experiment.

<Bill>
09-12-2003, 11:32 AM
Sounds like you did the best in a bad situation. That's all you can do. I probably would have skipped the Grad filter and if neccassary added something in post. If it didn't workout for you it can't be undone where if it was needed it could be added in post.

2000lux
09-12-2003, 08:07 PM
Perhaps in addition to Warm Cards they should make Cold Cards. What if you'd white balanced through a light amber gel like a Roscosun 1/8 or 1/4? Wouldn't that give you a bluish dusky look?

-Brian

<MIPhotog>
09-13-2003, 04:05 PM
With film its the Magic Hour, with video...
well its a different story.