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Hi there,
I'm new to the ND world but just did a shoot under intense bright sunlight at midday in the desert near Palm Springs. Thinking I could compensate for the bright sunlight, I added a Polar Pro ND8 for the shoot, but left the exposure settings on automatic.
Normally I try to get a good exposure setting on auto expose and once I get up in the air, I find a happy medium between sky and land, then lock the exposure so I don't get any major shifts in exposure during a flight. I rarely want to be worrying about exposure while all the other factors involved in flying are at play.
I flew mostly land with a little sky and locked my exposure to that.
I was amazed to get home and see my footage is HORRIFIC. It's extremely dark, almost unusably so, and very very grainy. In the midday sun of Palm Springs!
I swear I never was in manual exposure mode, only auto, and was just using the "locking" icon in the far upper right corner of the DJI4 app to lock in exposure. I'm saddened that the desert was so bright that I could not see how dark it was turning out, even with a hood on.
But can anyone explain to me how in bright desert conditions, I got this result? Should I never used manual exposure with an ND filter? I'm normally a good pilot but this really threw me and the results are just awful. Shouldn't my problem be OVEREXPOSURE, not UNDEREXPOSURE? What mistake did I make? I don't want to repeat it again.
I'm new to the ND world but just did a shoot under intense bright sunlight at midday in the desert near Palm Springs. Thinking I could compensate for the bright sunlight, I added a Polar Pro ND8 for the shoot, but left the exposure settings on automatic.
Normally I try to get a good exposure setting on auto expose and once I get up in the air, I find a happy medium between sky and land, then lock the exposure so I don't get any major shifts in exposure during a flight. I rarely want to be worrying about exposure while all the other factors involved in flying are at play.
I flew mostly land with a little sky and locked my exposure to that.
I was amazed to get home and see my footage is HORRIFIC. It's extremely dark, almost unusably so, and very very grainy. In the midday sun of Palm Springs!
I swear I never was in manual exposure mode, only auto, and was just using the "locking" icon in the far upper right corner of the DJI4 app to lock in exposure. I'm saddened that the desert was so bright that I could not see how dark it was turning out, even with a hood on.
But can anyone explain to me how in bright desert conditions, I got this result? Should I never used manual exposure with an ND filter? I'm normally a good pilot but this really threw me and the results are just awful. Shouldn't my problem be OVEREXPOSURE, not UNDEREXPOSURE? What mistake did I make? I don't want to repeat it again.