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Shooting quality video footage on cloudy days can be complicated if you use cameras or drones with low bitrates and small sensors.
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- Pascal Basel
When Mark's shoot goes awry due to cloudy weather, it's time to make ... In this episode, Mark gives you four of his tips for shooting when it's cloudy outside.
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- The Channel About Anything
Some tricks and techniques to filming in overcast cloudy weather!THE ULTIMATE FILMMAKING COURSE (35% OFF) - https://sellfy.com/seankitchingstore/p/filmmaking...
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- Sean Kitching
Master cloudy day photography with expert tips and settings to achieve professional results in soft light, even when the skies are overcast. This guide to cloudy day photography will lead you through the tips and settings for pro results.
- Make Good Use of Color
- Meter For Shadows
- Create Directional Light
- Use Cloud Breaks Or Light Pools
- Use The Backlight
- Try It in Black and White.
This is a perfect time to use color as a key element in the story of your images. With the flat, even lighting from an overcast sky, a pop of color goes a long way. Especially colors in the red/yellow families! By Chris Daniels, edited with Mastin Labs Gold 200 preset from our Adventure Everyday pack
This is common practice anyway, but metering for the shadows is especially crucial in such soft light. Doing so ensures that you have higher definition in the available highlights, which will help in adding dimension to your images.
The general lack of directional light is why many fear cloudy days. You just have to know how to work with it. Depending on the intensity of the overcast, you may have enough light to bounce onto your subject, but you should rely more on negative fill. Instead of adding light, you will take it away. The easiest way to do this is to have your subjec...
This is a wonderful advantage of cloudy-day shooting. Every once in a while, the clouds will shift just enough to allow a pool of sunlight through. When this happens, adjust your settings and use it while you can. If you're shooting in the middle of the day, find a spot off of which the light reflects. By Chris Daniels, edited with Mastin Labs Gold...
This is perhaps the primary reason that a cloudy day is great for lovers of the light and airy look. You can still use the sun as a backlight, but because it is so diffused, you'll easily be able to keep detail in both your subjects and the sky. Subjects against cloudy, diffused backlight. By Chris Daniels, edited with Mastin Labs Gold 200preset
You don't have to do the whole shoot in black and white, but the tones are so great that you'd be remiss not to try it out! Here are a few images from a cloudy Seattle day, edited with the Kodak Tri-X 400 presetin Capture One. These settings will undoubtedly vary a bit depending on the time of day, the severity of the overcast, and of course person...
- Kirk Mastin
Nov 28, 2017 · 1. CLOUDY MEANS SOFT LIGHT. Look at it this way: if the Sun is our primary light source and you put a layer of clouds in between the Sun and the Earth – you get a giant natural diffuser. FOR FREE. That means the light will be soft and perfect for portrait work.
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Nov 7, 2018 · Step 1: Shoot the cleanest cloudy day light. Is it true that it’s easier to shoot on an overcast day than on a sunny day? It’s definitely more flexible. It lets you shoot out in the middle of an area with nice, even lighting. But it can also cause problems with skin tones, color reflections if you’re not using the cleanest light possible.
