Hi guys. Would an ND filter have helped to decrease the brightness/whiteness of the swans? I’ve now got filmora x and I tried a few times with that. But nothing really made it any better. Sounds from soundsnap.
By itself an ND filter achieves nothing … the camera’s exposure meter will compensate and you’re back to where you started.
Just adjusting the exposure that its meter is suggesting is all that’s needed.
You have shutter speed and ISO available and, depending on the camera, also aperture.
Most DJI kit has a simple +/- EV adjustment that’s worth locating and using.
Always good to have the histogram showing in the app - and even more so if there are bright whites in which it’s important to retain detail … and monitor the bright end to prevent it going off the scale.
You can usually recover adequate detail from the shadows to balance out the final render, but you’ll never recover anything from burnt our whites … as you’re discovering.
This.
I don’t want to sound all “use the force, Luke” but getting in to the habit of not trusting your eyes but using the histogram is the key to it. Your phone/tablet/camera screen will have a bias. It may be overly bright or dark, over or under saturated etc. The histogram removes any of that bias and tells you what the sensor is actually seeing.
Thanks guys it’s a dji mini 2
A decent colour grade app such as Resolve may have been able to get some of the detail lost or at least make it appear that way by taking the brightness out just on the Swan. Generally if you over expose then its pretty much lost unless you are using RAW in which case some recovery can be achieved. Every camera sensor has a sweet spot some need to always be a tiny bit under exposed some the other way round either way as was said above learn and use the histogram. An ND filter will allow you to keep the same settings without changing the settings so for example if you wanted to maintain a DOF.I never leave home without ND filters. A common mistake I see again and again is using ISO to correct exposure or even worse shutter speed to do it. Don’t, keep the right settings and always use an ND filter and you will get great shots every time. If you change the ISO too much you will introduce noise and artefacts and if you change shutter speed you introduce issues with the natural blur required in video to make it appear natural without stutters. As a rule shutter speed should always be double your fps. Hope that helps a bit
Thanks rconnew every little helps. I was looking at resolve then thought filmora might be easier to use as I’m just getting into this art
To get the best results you need decent software particularly if as drone footage frequently requires a little repair along the way. Take the time to learn Resolve and it will pay back a hundred fold! Hundreds of how to’s on Resolve on YouTube they even have their own videos you can watch as well.
Yeah I’ll probly get into it one day. Ta