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Shooting Sunsets & Sun Rises
Just wondering if anyone has advice on shooting Sun rises and Sun sets with a HVX 200. We just acquired it and don’t want to damage the sensors! How worried should we be.
Kick it, It always works for me.
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No problem with sensors. Might want to use ND9 to bring down exposure.
Watch your eyeballs.James Mulryan
Sunset Park Media, LLC
Santa Monica, CA
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As stated, no problem for the sensors.
If you have a matte box you should get some ND grad filters. Use a combination of soft edge and hard edge grads, mixed from 0.6 to 1.2. ND filters are “Neutral Density” filters that don’t change the colour of light that enters the lens.
This allows you to expose for foreground objects and to knock the exposure of the sky back to something usable.
As a starters kit get a soft edge 0.6 ND, and a Hard edge 0.6 ND, followed by both versions of 0.9 nd is as good start. I have always avoided using coloured ND’s as I feel this can be added in post with much more creativity and control. Once the overall exposure of the scene is even then adding tones by the use of soft edge mattes can be done. You can’t even the exposure in post, once information is blown out it is irretrievable.
If you don’t have a matte box yet but are looking for one, get one that can take 5.65 x 5.65 size glass x 2 with at least 1 rotate slot.
I have used Chrosziel Mate boxes for over 15 years, they are a good light weight compromise, however I replaced one of them last year with a Vocas MB 450 and find it very satisfactory. It has a large circular 138mm rear slot for polarisers, 2 rotating slots 5.65 slots, a flipper 4 x 6 front slot, and internal eyebrows. -
The problem I have with shooting sunrises is they come so early in the day. With sunsets I don’t seem to have the same problem.
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Yeah, but shooting sunsets get in the way of a good beer!!!
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