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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When recording video you want to avoid hitting pure white or pure black. You might have seen it yourself if you’re taking a picture on a cloudy day and the sky ends up pure white, and no matter how much you try to edit it you can’t see any of the cloud details.
So when filming the camera turns the contrast right down to avoid any areas being too bright like that, or too dark at the other end.
This means it all looks washed out and you need to spend time color grading, bit better that than have the color set on camera then after the shoot find the footage it’s useless because parts of it were too bright/dark and it can’t be edited.
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