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Noisy Footage – Need Advice
Hi guys… I’m creating this topic from my phone so sorry for any typo…
I am a amateur musician from a couple years till now I’m trying to shoot some videos of me playing. And I’m getting frustrated everytime. I started with a little camcorder from Sony, then I tried my gopros(I have 3 of them) … I always get noise in the image ( bear with me I know the problem is light just giving you my hystory). I read somewhere that I should buy a dslr… so I bought something on my budget a nikon d3100… kit lens… still noisy… then I read somewhere that to get a nice shallow depth of field and reduce noise I should buy a prime lens like 50 mm f/1.8… again… I spent all my budget on that… (in my country that stuff is absurdly expensive even used)So my setup now is a nikon d3100 with that piece of glass but still noisy. I simply spent lots of money here (again my country is really expensive stuff like 300 dollars for that lens – btw used lens) and still don’t get not even close what I want.
My shot is me seating on a chair with my guitar or saxophone. There are three daylight 100w making a 3 point light. I keep the rooms light on (6 spot lights 15 w each plus a 100 day light bulb- remember this is ceiling light)
My camera is set to shutter 1/50… f/1.8 ISO 400 exposition 0 I’m capturing 1080p 24 fPS. Subject is 3 meters from cam and 1.5 meters from key light and fill light(100w day light bulb) back light by physical restrictions is not above the subject but a little left.
Guys all my budget to that is over…. so can you give me some advice on how to do it for really cheap?my only goal is to have a fairly crispy video with no noise.
This is a sample footage and the exactly configuration. (my lens are totally manual so I can’t use aperture mode)
ISO 100 (Auto ISO off)
F/1.8
Exposure compensation 0.3
WB Auto
ADL Off
Shutter speed 1/50Thx so much for your help and sorry about my english
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5 Replies
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One more sample trying to change light and camera positionhttps://youtu.be/tX4dDZ_hdDg
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Sorry, I am just not seeing the noise you are referring to in either shot. The microphone shot’s focus seems a little soft (focusing at 1.8 can be difficult) but otherwise it seems fine too. Does anyone else see something that I’m missing?
Steve Crow
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I see some grain in the footage… look at darker areas… maybe I’m being to hard on myself… I want a really crispy look… but hey if you say you can’t see… I’m probably good to go :)… thx for your help… I will try to do a real project and post so you guys have more footage to analyst
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I looked again and still don’t see anything. If you want a “crisp” look then perhaps try adding some sharpening during the edit. I would be very conservative with that as my personal taste is that too much sharpening takes away from the cinematic look.
On the other hand, since I typically turn down the “in camera” sharpening way down, I have to add a tad back in during editing.
Steve Crow
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You was very helpful Steve I really appreciate you help… let me ask you for one more hint… bear with me I’m a complete newbie :)… I have a eos rebel t3( not t3i) with the a 50mm f/1.8 lens too.. but it only films 720p… do you think I will loose to much quality if I scale up that footage to match my nikon 1080p? We are mostly talk about youtube videos… this will allow me to have three angles both dslr plus a gopro 3
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