From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Lighting
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Rich Harrington: We're out here on the beach. We've got a lot of different light going on right now Rob. We've got the open water. Robbie Carman: Uh-huh. Rich Harrington: We've got some shade here. But when I looked at the viewfinder, it's overexposed. Robbie Carman: Yep. Rich Harrington: And I could of course, we could take the aperture down, and go really small and control the light but that's not what we want. We want this filmic look. Robbie Carman: Yeah, and that's the thing that you're going to find when you go outdoors all the time, especially when you're shooting with a DSLR that you want to take advantage of those nice depth of field characteristics of the sensors and the nice fast lens, so you're going to want to shoot wide open. The problem, of course, Rich, is that when you shoot wide open, and in a bright environment like this, in a mix of exposure environment, you're going to get overexposed shots. Rich Harrington: Yeah. Robbie Carman: And so as you say, we could step…
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