jimhare
Second Officer
Flight distance : 239035 ft
Australia
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Here's a "before & after" of my cliff shoot the other day.
Notice that in the milky/boring before shot you still have all the detail in the whites, meaning you can see different tones in the whitecaps on the water. No question it's not crushing the blacks as there is so little contrast. This is what you want, for it to be as bright as you can without losing detail in the whites. This will give you the most options in post.
Now look at the "after" and you can see I pushed the colors and contrast pretty hard. I have intentionally let the shadows go below 0,, "crushing the blacks" a bit, but at least it was left up to my decision in post, not forced that way during the shoot.
As I mentioned on another post, if you find yourself having to brighten your footage in post you are most likely underexposing, which will add a lot of noise, terrible dynamic range and in general a pretty ordinary image.
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