But it’s essential to be able to see an accurate histogram on my camera, to ensure I’ve captured as much tonal range as possible. Shooting RAW, and knowing I’ll be making adjustments in post, it doesn’t really matter what picture style I use, because I can change that when processing the RAW file. By reducing the contrast in the picture style, you’ll reduce the chances of losing detail in the scene. When that happens, you are losing detail in the shadows if it’s pushed against the left, and in the highlights if the graph is pushed against the right. When viewing the histogram, if the squiggly lines that make up the graph are pushed up against either the left or the right side, that is called clipping. When shadows are clipped, objects in those areas will show as pure black in the scene, also with no detail. When you clip highlights, objects in the scene that are clipped will show as pure white with no detail.
Also, most cameras give you the ability to edit the picture styles, so you can turn down the contrast if you like, ensuring that you capture more highlight and shadow detail, and reducing the chances of clipping highlights or shadows. While not all cameras have a Flat picture control or style, most have a Neutral or Faithful picture style or control, that works similarly.
The left edge represents blacks, the mid-left represents shadows, the middle is midtones, the mid-right is highlights, and the far right is whites. The histogram on your camera is a graphed indication of where the pixels in your image fall in relation to highlights and shadows.
Nikon picture control – if you do not have Flat, choose Neutral or Faithful I find that by using a flat, low contrast, low saturation picture style, when I process the RAW file I can bring out better detail and contrast, and avoid clipping in the highlights and shadows. This process is called color grading.Īs I began to understand what the colorists were doing, I adjusted my workflow to allow me to take advantage of the same concepts. The purpose of shooting video this way, is so that it retains as much information as possible about the range of tones in the image, so the colorists who work on the video later can bring out that detail, and create a visual look to the film. A video file shot using Log Gamma will be very flat, with little contrast and color saturation. But while picture styles or picture controls are for the most part intended to provide a finished look, Log Gamma does just the opposite. This is similar to the picture styles that we DSLR and camera users have come to know and love.
#Cinema picture style vs ml raw movie#
When Hollywood studios film a movie using a digital cinema camera, many times the camera will be set to record what is known as Log Gamma. Let me explain about using flat picture styles.
Several years ago, while working with film editors on a cinema project, I came across a concept that I decided to apply to my own photography, and I have to say, it has improved my final images a great deal. During my career in photography, I’ve continued to evolve, both my shooting and editing styles, to achieve the results I wanted.
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