Adam Grunseth
June 8th, 2008, 04:39 PM
I will be shooting a short video featuring a scene with a car driving down the highway at night. I only have a basic three point light kit, still, I am confident in my ability to get the scene lit and looking good and mimic motion of the car using the 'poor mans process'.
My question is this- What is the best way to get a bluish tint to help sell the cold nightime feeling? The reason this is a question for me is that I know this camera, the HD110, has alot of noise in the blue channel. Normally I would use blue gel's on the lights or white balance on something orange, but with the noise this camera produces in deep blues I'm wondering if that is the best rout? I was thinking maybe I should shoot everything in very warm colors, then alter the colors in post to get my blues, or perhaps just white balance correctly for white and ad a blue filter on top of everything in post.
Now I know the obvious advice is to test the different options and see how they come out. Unfortunately my shoot is rapidly approaching and I simply have too many other things to do between now and then to shoot the tests. It just recently dawned on me that maybe using blue gels wouldn't be the best way to get a clean picture with a bluish tint in this camera.
Any thoughts?
My question is this- What is the best way to get a bluish tint to help sell the cold nightime feeling? The reason this is a question for me is that I know this camera, the HD110, has alot of noise in the blue channel. Normally I would use blue gel's on the lights or white balance on something orange, but with the noise this camera produces in deep blues I'm wondering if that is the best rout? I was thinking maybe I should shoot everything in very warm colors, then alter the colors in post to get my blues, or perhaps just white balance correctly for white and ad a blue filter on top of everything in post.
Now I know the obvious advice is to test the different options and see how they come out. Unfortunately my shoot is rapidly approaching and I simply have too many other things to do between now and then to shoot the tests. It just recently dawned on me that maybe using blue gels wouldn't be the best way to get a clean picture with a bluish tint in this camera.
Any thoughts?