Frank Leggett
September 16th, 2010, 10:49 AM
HI,
I recently used my camera to film interviews outside and the camera was used as part of a production which included broadcast rackable cameras. The pictures where fine until I had to start doing interviews against a bright background. To exposure the subject enough to light up his face caused a halo effect as the background became to bright. A couple of the engineers told me I should alter the black stretch so as to get more detail into the face without having to overexpose the background so much. Unfortunately there is no Black stretch setting in the picture profile menu only Black Gamma settings. So I started to play with these and increased the black level in the low area but was surprised to see the same level in the mid and high settings and when I reset these back it also reset the low setting. So my point is why have a Low, Mid, High setting if you are effecting all at the same time. Does anyone have any experience with this they could help me with.
I recently used my camera to film interviews outside and the camera was used as part of a production which included broadcast rackable cameras. The pictures where fine until I had to start doing interviews against a bright background. To exposure the subject enough to light up his face caused a halo effect as the background became to bright. A couple of the engineers told me I should alter the black stretch so as to get more detail into the face without having to overexpose the background so much. Unfortunately there is no Black stretch setting in the picture profile menu only Black Gamma settings. So I started to play with these and increased the black level in the low area but was surprised to see the same level in the mid and high settings and when I reset these back it also reset the low setting. So my point is why have a Low, Mid, High setting if you are effecting all at the same time. Does anyone have any experience with this they could help me with.