Jared Polin Froknowsphoto.com and this video is for anybody out there who is shooting a
lot of video.
Do you set your picture control before you start shooing?
Well you said and the reason being is that you have to set this picture control because
it's embedded into the video that you're making.
Now when we shoot raw images, still photos you don't have to worry about picture control
as much because we have the raw image, the raw file to go ahead and tweak later but because
video is done in camera you have to set your picture control settings at the time you're
shooting whether you want your sharpness really high or really low or do you want your contrast
bumped high for a more boomy image or a more pulled, pulled back to be fled.
You want to get these things right in the camera before you're shooting because it's
baked into that video file.
Now, there are people that can shoot raw video, but that's when you get into the more expensive
cameras.
For all of these cameras you want to make sure whether you set your picture control
or style control whether it's Nikon or Cannon you want to get that right.
So what we're going to do right now is run through some different styles and picture
controls to show you what they could look right or wrong so let's do that right now.
So what you just saw before this was our settings for outside.
We already had our picture control set properly.
Now what we did in this one is we maxed out the contrast and we maxed out the sharpening.
Steven's telling me its really looking really, really punk rock and punchy.
Now if this wasn't the effect you were going for and this is how you recorded your video
there's not much you can do about it after the fact.
So let's see another one right now.
So now we've gone the opposite way.
We've lowered our contrast all the way down to zero.
We've lowered our sharpening all the way down and this is what it looks like.
There's a huge difference so this is so important that you lock this in for what you want to
do when you're shooting outside.
Let's or not even outside just in general getting these settings right before you shoot
your video.
So let's see what else we have?
So now we went ahead and put the other things back to normal and we bump the saturation.
It's all the way up Steven.
Yeah we bumped it all the way up and he's telling me I look like I have a fake tan or
I'm from the Jersey shore or something like that.
If this is the effect you're going for then maybe that will work for you just remember
it's easier to do these corrections in camera than in post because it's baked right into
that file.
Let's do another one all right so now we shifted the tint.
Steven when doing our videos plays with the tint a lot because it's either too green or
too magenta and you just have to play with it.
It's like if you were in light room and just sliding that same slider.
So what do we do?
We went all the way green to try to make me look like the Incredible Hulk grrraaaa-aahaa
Hulk is hungry or something I don't know.
But again this is just giving you another example.
Now we want to show you one more.
Now we've gone ahead and gone into monochrome.
If you're looking to get that pleasant feel look well black and white we're not doing
added if color here and Steven locked this in to where he thinks it is right with the
right contrast and the right sharpening and now we're monochrome.
Now I'm not sure whether this is better to do in post-production or in the camera just
remember that if you do monochrome in camera you're not getting back that color information
later so maybe this is an option where you shoot it all in color and you'd make that
change later on.
But let's get to the next thing and wrap up this video.
Alright guys so you're looking at another interesting setting that Steven has set inside
the camera.
We're going to wrap it up here but you saw the different options.
Well, not even just different options just what could look like when it's too contrasting
when there's too much saturation, too much sharpening.
I just want you to be aware that you have to set your picture control in camera when
you're focusing on shooting video.
You want to do it in the camera and not post-production so just keep that in mind.
This was fun to show you those different examples and that's really it.
Jared Polin Froknowsphoto.com.
See ya.