Great vid guys, I love it! Any chance you can show how the lighting looked out of the camera side by side with the grade? I have a tough time knowing how much to light my night scenes so I'm not introducing fixed pattern noise, but have enough light contrast that when I bring it down in post it'll still sell the night look, but also be clean. I love the blackmagic cameras (we use the pocket 4K) but the fixed pattern noise is hard to avoid. I keep trying to figure out what the minimum amount of light I need to have in the scene to be able to get a clean "night time/parts of the image fall into darkness" look. Like what should the false color look like to achieve that?
Hey! I just uploaded a side by side comparison to my google drive for you to check out tiny.cc/maftmz We shot on our Red One MX but it should look pretty similar on the BMPCC4K We also have Pocket 4K and use it all the time, but for low light stuff its a good idea to have a speed booster due to the micro 4/3 sensor. With the speed booster we don't get any noise problems. Okay, so for the lighting it wasn't too bright. I didn't have a light meter so I can't tell you the exact levels, but as long as you just use the same lighting ratio, it won't matter how bright you light it because you can always expose it where you want it. We shot on the toe end of the histogram. I don't think we ever went over 20IRE so super dark! Just try to get it as close as you can in camera. Don't worry about noise in shadows if they are going to be crushed anyway (very common with night scenes) Hope this helps!
Hands down one of the best nighttime interior tutorials, it looks absolutely professional, this could be in a feature film! No insanely expensive camera/lighting packages, just pure technique. Love it guys. Definitely putting this in my book of knowledge
This was great! Exactly what I have been looking for. It's unfortunate that RU-vid compression likes to ruin these kinds of shots, but that's not gonna stop me!
I'm so grateful i found this video! so thank you for this; as well as the comparative upload. I'm currently shooting a night scene. Actually I shot my scene last night with my Ursa at 200 ISO Temp at 3200 2 LED's ( 3200K) with blue Gels. using my rig's main monitor everything did look great. However, woke up this morning all my footage was gone ( I have no clue as to what happened with my Cfast cards) so I have to shoot again. However, because i didn't download it into Davinci i really don't know how it all really came out. I actually was winging it. But to my inexperienced eye I thought all the shots were good and clean. I'm a lil upset because it took me almost 7 hrs to film it ( I was really proud of what I did now I'm afraid i wont get similar results. However, I had the same questions Journey's end posted. I'm hoping armed with your tips I could get better results.I don't know why I didn't meter anything but when metering what am I looking for.
Hey there! Sorry for the late reply, how did the reshoot come out? I’ve had this happen to me as well, it’s not fun. But you live and learn. I double back up everything now! So for the lighting ratio, it’s just the ratio between the highlights to shadows. For night scenes you usually want to go for really high ratios. You can achieve this by basically not using any fill and that should get you there. I hope that helps! - Aaron
Love you vids but the b-rolls are most pf the times close-ups. We need wide shots to contextualize please guys. For example, at 1:42, I cannot make anything out from this footage ! What is happening here ? I've subscribed anyways, I know you guys are providing great content so thank you.
It’s taken us a lifetime to save up to buy all the stuff we have, but we were doing it with Home Depot lights before and it looks the same, just takes a lot longer and a bit more work. We are just trying to show the techniques behind it. But any lights can be used 👍🏻
Did kinoflo have a 3200K tubes inside which you geled with CTB in order to get 5600K? Or were they already 5600K and you pushed them to even higher temperature with CTB? What was the camera's Kelvin?
Nice lighting, did u underexposed the key? how can v get low light image without noise? was there noise in raw and did u fix in post? because when i do low light, false color shows underexposer, if I increase the levels, image getting brighter, How can v achieve this kind of look? By underexposing the key? Plz explain...
This was awesome! I have always wanted to make films but I can't decide what camera to use. Do you have any recommendations for a beginner filmmaker? I am thinking about a Canon DSLR. I only have about $700 to spend. Thank you for any tips you can give me.
To achieve dimly lit cinematic look....did you keep footage underexposed or shot with correct exposure 0.0 to achieve dimly lit room in the post.... what WB did you set??
The Red One MX sensor is a very blue biased chip. Especially in low light scenarios, it wants as much blue light as it can get to avoid a noisy mess. Since it’s raw it can be shifted back in post. Sorry we forgot to mention this!
Good Video but can u just demonstrate straight away right beside the lights and stuff I have to imagine a lot cause of the boring skit u guys hogged on screentime for the video
