How are you setting up your scene files for depo work? I've played around and tried many. I just can't seem to get it "just right." What are you using?

James Downie
Blufish Media
Charlotte, NC

... or anyone else for that matter who shoots interviews under florescent lighting.

Hi James

I don't shoot depos here but any indoor work I found that the scene file supposedly allocated to working under fluro isn't that good anyway. (It's F2 on your camera) I think that's because most strip lights nowdays are chosen for a normal balance and they tend to come in "Natural" or "Warm" colour temperatures.

The F1 scene file, for me anyway, is pretty insipid, especially with chroma level ..for indoor shoots I pull the Chroma up to +2 and use Detail at +2 ....keep Vertical Detail at zero as it might introduce noise.
The nicest gamma setting I find is to use BPress ...it gives a better contrast and I have my Matrix on Normal 2 (cos we are on PAL) so you could stick to Normal 1 - I usually modify the F1 setting as it's all zero anyway!!

I find that gives me a nice overall result under strip or CFL lighting.

Chris

Thanks Chris. I'll give it a shot tomorrow!