Comments on: Understanding DSLR Color Shift, White Balance, and Color Profiles

By: Greg Pettit

Greg Pettit — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:45:00 +0000

Very useful and interesting. Doesn’t hurt that the subject matter happened to be a fighter, being that I’m an MMA fan. ;-) I wish to God I could mute or at least turn down the soundtrack music, though! ;-)

By: Randy Richards

Randy Richards — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:54:00 +0000

A very informative video. I love the quality of work that the stillmotion team puts into all their productions.

By: Randy Richards

Randy Richards — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:54:00 +0000

A very informative video. I love the quality of work that the stillmotion team puts into all their productions.

By: O'nev

O'nev — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:49:00 +0000

take a look at this video http://fstoppers.com/use-a-monopod-to-film-super-smooth-video-on-your-hdslr

By: Patrick Hall

Patrick Hall — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:03:00 +0000

Well we shoot on Nikons which do not allow for this profile. I usually find that I crush the blacks down in post anyways and I personally like some blown highlights. Obviously having complete control afterwards is always a nice benefit but if you have a particular style (like we have with every FS original for the most part) then it’s awesome just letting the camera apply your preferred settings.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:45:00 +0000

Anyone know what kind of adapter is being used on the monopod to connect the camera?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:37:00 +0000

Thank you for sharing. Very informative video.

By: Patrick Hall

Patrick Hall — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:53:00 +0000

I agree to some point. I actually think cameras do a poor job with black and white so I’d recommend doing that in post. Plus if you ever want to add some slight color to the final output it’s always nice having the color there. But I agree, many times I spend the extra little time to get it right in camera and let the camera’s software lock everything down.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:58:00 +0000

If you know the look you’re going for why do it in post when the camera can often get the exact look you want? If you’re shooting black and white you would light for black and white (contrast/light/shadows), so you would want to light the scene a certain way, same with a picture styles/colour tone/white balance: they are tools to be used. Great video.

By: J G Harding

J G Harding — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:03:00 +0000

It’s most useful for lifting the blacks out of the area of the most aggressive compression, so it pedestals them at recording. It also protects highlights very well, but the downside is that the extra dynamic range sacrifices some tonal smoothness. You get a less natural skintone.