Christmas light help

[jlynde]

Hi all,

I am trying to video the light displays at the park I work for with a Mini 3 Pro. My ISO is at 200 and shutter speed is at 1/25. This is way to0 dark for me because I still want to see the surrounding landscape. Can anyone suggest some other settings to make this better or do I need to just start trying different things out?

Thanks!

Have a wonderful holiday season

 

[Phantomrain.org]

What ever you do , make your first shoot is in Auto mode as that will most likely give you your best-looking video than go back and experiment with some manual settings

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[Bad Santa]

Good luck with lights if they are LED.
For whatever reason, whenever I try to shoot LED lights they come out as white lights.

 

[PanoVolo]

shoot raw

 

[MavicAir2Marc]

it's no wonder you don't see the surrounding landscape at those settings. Whatever your frame rate is, double it at least. Maybe instead of shooting at full dark, shoot at blue hour so there's some ambient light left to help light other things besides the lights. You nay find that some lights will flicker shooting video. If that's the case, you may have to experiment with shutter speed.

 

[Kilrah]

Do the shoot before it's completely dark so there's still some ambient light to illuminate the surroundings.

 

[jlynde]

What ever you do , make your first shoot is in Auto mode as that will most likely give you your best-looking video than go back and experiment with some manual settings

Phantomrain.org
Gear to fly your drone in the Rain and land on the Water.

I tried manual and it is does not do well at all. I can barely make out any of the lights and it is just all fuzzy.

 

[jlynde]

Good luck with lights if they are LED.
For whatever reason, whenever I try to shoot LED lights they come out as white lights.

I have ran into the same thing. It isn't just me!

 

[jlynde]

it's no wonder you don't see the surrounding landscape at those settings. Whatever your frame rate is, double it at least. Maybe instead of shooting at full dark, shoot at blue hour so there's some ambient light left to help light other things besides the lights. You nay find that some lights will flicker shooting video. If that's the case, you may have to experiment with shutter speed.

I have to shoot in full dark because the park gets pretty busy around that time with people looking at the lights.

 

[jlynde]

Do the shoot before it's completely dark so there's still some ambient light to illuminate the surroundings.

I really wish I could. The park gets busy with people looking at the lights then.

 

[ThePopper]

I would set the shutter speed to 1/50 (film speed), the white balance to tungsten, and crank the iso up. Maybe to 1600.