I've been scratching my head on this one. Although most is 'man in dunk tank is properly balanced and people outside are washed out' ... sometimes it may be where people are properly balanced and man in tank is dark...
HELP ! How in the heck to I fix this ? One good thing is that the camera is 100% steady on a tripod for all of these shots.
THANKS
A scene like this really calls for manual exposure in camera.
If the people are washed out there isn't really anything that can be done to recover the brightness. You could try to use a tool like Autolevels to keep the exposure from jumping around so much. Otherwise masks and keyframe curves or another Fx to try to balance the two.
You could use the sky from the darker image throughout to have it be blue instead of white- overlay the videos on tracks and mask out the sky on the brighter one.
Shoot 10 bit video. Lock your exposure. That will give you 10-15 stops of latitude.
Thanks...I adjusted the camera to try both variants. I think most are with dark dunk tank...and can toss away the lighter dunk tank footage. So I removed the other photos. Could some sort of split screen or cookie cutter mask (done in "MS Paint" )between left and right side work ? Adjusting the left side ? Sort of what house photographers do when shooting the bedroom and window at the same time ?
Yes, you can mask and lighten the left side only. Try color curves or the color grading panel for that.
Real estate photographers would probably just light the room or close the curtains, though you could resort to exposure blending if you really wanted what's outside to be visible.
What they do is make 2 shots from the exact same angle / settings...1) room with daylight making the room look nice with washed-out window exposure... more of a living room with big glass windows... then matte a 2) photo with different setting to get the 'outside things' to look normal.
I will try a freeform matte (mask) and 2 lines of video... I will let you know :-)
As a photographer I'd bring up the light in the room as it's contrast ratio that's the problem. Exposure blending (merging multiple exposures in post) is the second option you describe.
Along the lines of what RogerS suggested, Color Corrector (Secondary) can create masks based on luminance range. I sometimes dup the track and knock out shadow areas on the top copy. That lets me give the lower copy a different grade which shines through the knock-out of the top track. If you shoot twice with different exposures, you could alternatively put the clip with the better exposed shadows on the lower track... I often do that in the opposite situation with indoor shoots when the windows are burnt out by sunlight throwing a still photo on the lower track.
Gotta love Colorfast2:
Right Correction, you can now see the texture in the concrete:
Left Correction, the Red Bars of the cage are now visible:
To my mind, the mild saturation and more "even" approach are getting the overall FunFair feel. But this is only my opinion.
And now, highlighting the Target with a feathered Spot Light:
Shoot 10 bit video. Lock your exposure. That will give you 10-15 stops of latitude.
well that only works in LOG, not just with 10 bit.