Air 2 I would like help shooting this shot up better to not get so washed out in skyline. ND Filters?

[VenomXts]

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I was just running it on auto.

 

[Phantomrain.org]

Not seeing the Wash out , look like solid clean footage.

Phanntomrain.org
Gear to fly your Air 2 in the Rain / Snow and land on water.

 

[VenomXts]

Not seeing the Wash out , look like solid clean footage.

Phanntomrain.org
Gear to fly your Air 2 in the Rain / Snow and land on water.

Thanks, i should have given a time stamp around 23 second in

 

[ICHOTT]

No, not nd, the clue is in the name neutral density, ie it cuts down all light evenly, more to be used to deliberately use slower shutter speed for eg motion effects.

try polarising filters to get the effect you might be looking for, google for some example uses

 

[Meta4]

I would like help shooting this shot up better to not get so washed out in skyline. ND Filters?​

The problem is that most of the frame is dark and the small area above the horizon is bright.
The difference between dark and bright is too much for the camera to be able to achieve proper exposure for both at the same time.

Conventional ND filters won't do anything to fix that as they would reduce the light getting through to the sensor uniformly from all parts of the scene.
And polarising filters won't solve the problem either.

Turning the drone around so that the sun is lighting the scene and background sky is one solution.
Or if you must shoot toward the sun, a graduated ND filter might help.
But only if such a thing was available for your camera, but not for panning around as much as your video shows.

 

[AZDave]

Another infleunce is that when the sun is that low to the horizon the earth's atmosphere (of which there is more to penetrate) filters out more of the colors than it does when the sun is overhead.

 

[bushie]

Probably your only option is to fix it in post.

 

[TommyP]

I was just running it on auto.

Would have been perfect in the middle of the day with the sun overhead.
Always hard to do sun set videos.

 

[Repaid1]

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I was just running it on auto.

ND's don't work on Auto...just so you know... If you went manual and adjusted down you "might" find a happy medium, but it is all about time, position of sun as mentioned. You don't say what your flying? Higher end DJI have a touch to adjust. So if you wanted the sky as a more blue you simply would touch the sky on screen and camera would adjust for that exposure, remember the rule of thirds.

 

[Dave Maine]

Fixing it in post with a graduated filter is the best solution. For this to work, you will need to balance your exposure between the bright parts and dark parts. If either is clipped, no amount of adjustment can fix it. Use the histogram tool to center the exposure where you need it, and use one of the settings that maximizes dynamic range, like cinema-D or wquivalent.

 

[spamgnome]

From your initial post, it looks like you're flying the Air 2. Have you tried it using the HDR setting?

 

[spamgnome]

ND's don't work on Auto...just so you know...

How so? The point of the ND filter is to slow the shutter speed down, right? Are you saying that on the AUTO setting the drone won't automatically reduce the shutter speed? Not disagreeing, just guess I always assumed that it would do that.

 

[Thomas B]

How so? The point of the ND filter is to slow the shutter speed down, right? Are you saying that on the AUTO setting the drone won't automatically reduce the shutter speed? Not disagreeing, just guess I always assumed that it would do that.

On auto the drone will adjust to the same settings it wants with or without a filter.

 

[spamgnome]

On auto the drone will adjust to the same settings it wants with or without a filter.

Sorry to be dense, but if the light sensor on the drone senses that it needs more light (due to the presence of a filter), it can either increase ISO or decrease shutter speed. Are you saying it will always go for the ISO?

 

[Thomas B]

Sorry to be dense, but if the light sensor on the drone senses that it needs more light (due to the presence of a filter), it can either increase ISO or decrease shutter speed. Are you saying it will always go for the ISO?

I’m saying it will use the settings that programming has as default either way. The end result will be the same if you don’t use manual settings.

 

[spamgnome]

I’m saying it will use the settings that programming has as default either way. The end result will be the same if you don’t use manual settings.

Let's say I go and shoot a scene without a filter on auto, and the drone picks 100 ISO and a shutter speed of 1/250. I then put on an ND filter (32 for example) and shoot the exact same scene. What ISO/shutter speed will I observe?

 

[Thomas B]

Let's say I go and shoot a scene without a filter on auto, and the drone picks 100 ISO and a shutter speed of 1/250. I then put on an ND filter (32 for example) and shoot the exact same scene. What ISO/shutter speed will I observe?

Test it... and report back

 

[spamgnome]

Test it... and report back

I will, but based on your statements, what should I expect to see?

 

[Thomas B]

An essentially identical set of videos.

 

[spamgnome]

An essentially identical set of videos.

That I agree with. But if that's to be true, wouldn't something have to change in the exposure settings when I put the filter on?