Thu Feb 27, 2014 1:19 am
Hello all, newly joined here.
I'm having trouble understanding "correct exposure" talked about here. I hope you guys aren't meaning that the whole range in the frame should be lit at the stop level. I am currently waiting for arrival of my 4k camera, and this concept is troubling to me. While I am newer as a shooter, I have been lighting features for over 20 years, and many of our setups include a range from black shadows to blown out overexposed areas. Correct exposure doesn't really mean much to me, as we use a massive range of light intensity all the time. Are you saying that whatever is exposed correctly should look fine, but the areas in the frame that fall off to black will probably have vertical lines in it??
In my experience, any night interior/exterior scene will have drastically underexposed areas in the frame. Please don't tell me I can only shoot "high key" environments with this camera. If that's the case, it'll only be useful for comedies shot in the daytime?