Utilizing Matte Boxes And Filters With Dvs

Right now, most software programs can add tint or color

, but fixing high contrast lighting circumstances is finest taken care of though shooting. Employing filters in front of your lens can support appropriate exposure & keep detail in all parts of one's shot.

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Matte Boxes are like large sun shades that snap or screw into your Lens or camera body. The matte box is used to hold filters that can assist you in getting the most effective image possible. If you are shooting a dramatic scene or commercial, and have some sort of control, these can really create great looking digital video.

The Matte Box filters are hard edged and rectangle/square in shape. They slide into the Matte Box and some, such as the Polarizer Filter, rotate until the desired effect is achieved. A polarizer can make your sky richer in blue and detail. You turn it with two handles and spin it into the correct position.

Can you still use filters if you do not have a Matte Box? The answer is YES! Most filters are available in flat edged and round screw-on filters. These round filters screw right on your lens, just like the UV filter you may have on it right now. A clear UV Filter protects your lens against scratching. I suggest always employing some sort of protection in front of your lens.

In summary, Matte Boxes are attachments to your camera that allow multiple filters to be placed in front of the lens.

The photo to the right has a split screen, one half is utilizing a ND "Grad" Filter, and the other is not. ND "Grad" filters are helpful when shooting with a bright sky at the top of the shot and a dark subject area on the lower part. Think of a farm on a sunny day, you are shooting someone driving a tractor, the sky can "wash out" in order to get the corrrect exposure on the tractor. Or even a barn standing in the middle of an empty field. These are high contrast circumstances, and these "ND Grad" filters cut down on the light coming from the top 1/3 of your shot, reducing the sky to it's appropriate exposure. Appropriate exposure in Digital Video means detail and rich colors These ND filters can enable you nail the right exposure in high contrast situations.

These gradation "Grad" filters also come in colors, which can make the sky look much richer, and give it a film look. All these filters also can be purchased as round "screw-on" and used without a Matte box.

Want to blow out your high lights and make it look like some one is in heaven, you know, walking on clouds...or walking thru bright lights and a smog machine? Then the pro-mist filter is for you.

If used in it's full strength,the pro-mist filter does produce a fuzzy white effect in areas of bright light, but if use in small amounts, it can produce dramatic results. If you shooting a person coming back fropm spirit life, or a dream sequence...check out Pro Mist filters.

by: Allen Mele

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