[Firman Prasetia]

Oh ok..I’ll check it out…:D
Thanks Chris…

[Firman Prasetia]

hohoho…. thanks for all comment..:D

“don’t forget polarized lenses, you’ll get a few extra stops.”

what do you mean by polarized lenses? is it some kind of special lenses?

and,

“You can still contrast the heck out of images. example: cowboys vs aliens. It’s not the contrast that gets you. It’s dv’s encoding that enhances edges with dark black lines. although you’re right to some extent, if the video has a sharp cutoff to white, it’s going to scream video. you can steal some of the curve with a gradual decay to white.”

how to do that? 😀

and, how bout the contrast ratio on location is more than the camera dynamic range could handle?
Let say (exterior scene) the sun light that fall off to the building far behind the actor is too strong, then we don’t have enough light to lit the actor? becoz if sometimes I underexposed the shot, while in post, i dial back the black up, I need to struggle with noise or artifact that come up. something like blocky things, which some people say becoz of DSLR chroma sub sampling is 4:2:0 not 4:2:2. Yeah here in my country the sun light is really hard, not like in europe, dimmed. 😀

oh yeah, by the way,
Do you guys got any samples that shoot on DSLR that color grade become something like maroon 5 vidclip? 😀

[Firman Prasetia]

Could you explain it in detail? 😀

I use find edges, but how to make it as alpha matte? Should I put 2 identical footage into sequence?

Thx u

[Firman Prasetia]

Here’s the link of comparison.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/81940118@N03/7507195656/in/photostream

mine one (top photo) and the reference (bottom)

2nd link comparison

https://www.flickr.com/photos/81940118@N03/7507199272/in/photostream/

I know, the shot framing of mine is not the same with the reference and the lighting approach also different..:D

I try to color grade mine, adjust the shadows and midtones up, and bring the highlight down, to lower the contrast, then adjust saturation make it desaturated, adjust the color on 3 color wheel tool. but still my footage still look video-ish, compare to my reference. Then I try to see closely both (mine and the reference), it’s like something missing on mine that need to adjust..:D

Even none of music video in my country, that achieve the “film-look” (since I don’t know how to explain it verbally) of something like Maroon 5 – Payphone.

How to get rid of video-ish look? 😀
Thanks a lot Steve…