I have worked with a few videographers on big shoots, but don’t have much experience myself other than little behind the scenes type of videos shot with an iPhone. One thing I noticed is that the initial footage is always super washed out. Then they color correct it, and bam! Awesome footage.
Why do they shoot it that way? It’s obvious to me that there’s a reason— they’re I professionals, and they know what they’re doing— but I have no idea what that reason is!
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They’re probably shooting log. That’s a video format. Basically, it uses some math to shift the brightness values of the image. If you don’t edit it, it looks washed out, but the reason videographers prefer it is because it captures the most detail in shadows, which gives you more options when you’re color correcting. Maybe you don’t need that detail and you can throw it out, but if you do need it, and you captured the video normally, you may not have the detail that you want when you go to edit.
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