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Overexposed windows with a dolly shot
Hi All:
I’m just wondering if any of you have suggestions for how to possibly color correct a shot better than what I’m doing. We shot in front of big glass windows that were bright. We did not use LOG (trying to remember why, but it didn’t happen!!).
I’ve attached three shots. Camera 1 was on a tripod, so here I didn’t have too much trouble. I did four masks for each of the window panes within Lumetri and then brought the exposure down.
But with the moving dolly shot, I don’t really know what to do. Do I do a tracking mask of some kind? But on what? The four panes of the window? Feels like that’s going to get real messy…have to adjust every 2-3 frames on each of the panes.
Anyway, you can see in this short clip that in addition to the windows being hot, he’s also a bit silhouetted. I’ve done some light correction, bringing down highlights primarily. Appreciate any suggestions!
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1012961745/977d36dc1f
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Hi Geoff, I don’t have a solution for you yet, but I can commiserate.
I had a shoot in a small room in front of a BIG window on a partly cloudy day and things got real ugly real quick. Only a single camera shoot, but my white balance was all over the place as the sun would peek out from, then go back into clouds. I’m trying to match this interview with another one I did in the same spot on a completely cloudy day in front of the same window. I’m following this post to see if others have a similar experience and what advice is offered.
Thanks for posting!
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Thanks for your words of encouragement, Alan! I have a feeling my solution is either: 1) simple but not really satisfactory; or 2) satisfactory but not simple at all.
My only saving grace is that I told the client in advance of the shot: “If the sun gets bright during the shoot, that profile with the wall of windows is likely to be badly overexposed.” So I did protect myself.
Good luck with your own post-production predicament.
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