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Make sure you use ND filters! I have done the same shots with and without them, and the ones without are always blown out in the highlights (because you need to use a slower shutter speed (see below), and have no aperture control) and unusable. You will want to use a high enough of a filter to be able to keep your shutter speed at 1/60 (if you are shooting in 30 fps, like I am), while not underexposing the image.
For camera settings:
4k / 30 fps. 1/60 shutter. (You can also try 4k / 24 fps, 1/50 shutter.)
Make sure to take white balance out of auto (as it will auto-switch within a shot, and ruin it) and set either to sunny if it's sunny, cloudy if it's cloudy. Or, you can set manually to somewhere between 5000-5400, like I do.
I shoot in D-Cine-like, but D-Log will work too (just does not preserve as much of the color). The other modes way over saturate the image, imo.
Set a custom color style and make everything -2, expect for sharpness, which I set to +1 (the jury is still out as to if it's better to go +1 or -1 on this. I would experiment, and see what results you get).
In post, I cut all of the clips I wanted to use, and organized them in the order I wanted. I then chose a song and cut those clips to match the down beats of the song.
Then, I desaturated every image, even further, as well as turned down the vibrancy. Added contrast, along with some blacks and whites. I also used the Premiere de-haze effect all clips, as I feel it works well with these landscape shots... I used the highlights and shadows effect on a some of the sunset clips to separate the sky from ground to pull out more details (and would have used it on all to get rid of the noise in the shadows, but was getting really bad flickering on some clips (known Premiere issue)). I added a little warmth in the day scenes for the white balance, and a little red tint in the sunrise/sunset scenes (be sure not to overdo this (common mistake I see)).
There was a lot of fine tuning with the individual clips, as I shot at all different times of the day/with and without snow. There is not a certain LUT, or post settings that will work well with every single clip in this situation, so you need to just take your time and go through each clip/scene and fine tune the above settings.
Hope this helps! Let me know if I missed something, or if you have any other questions. |
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