Beach Shoot Question

[Jon Schellenger]

Hello everyone!!!

You guys always give me valuable information, so I come back to you with another question....

What settings do you recommend for shooting a sunrise and sunset with talent on the beach?

I know about the IRND filters and I have a great set of pancros. What I am more curious about is the ISO setting. I will protect my highlights for sure, but I do want a nice roll off of latitude.

I really like a noiseless image, but if I understand from what some of you have posted, by using a 500 ISO setting, I will get more latitude? Is this correct? Or would you stay on the 320 setting for a beach setting?

I want the most film-like image available from the camera and I know it can get harsh out on the beach. We will be staying for the moon-rise as well so I know the harsh light will fade and we should have a perfect moment of light.

Does anyone have some great tips???

Thanks again everyone!

 

[Daniel Browning]

I really like a noiseless image, but if I understand from what some of you have posted, by using a 500 ISO setting, I will get more latitude? Is this correct?

Not more; just different. In other words: more highlight headroom and less shadows.

Just expose so the highlights you care about are on the far right of the histogram.

Some static compositions might benefit from a grad ND. If the RAW RGB histogram shows that one is ahead or behind the others, you might throw a color filter on there to drop the other two colors to the same level (so you can increase exposure and get further to the right). For example, in the afternoon I find that I can one full additional stop of dynamic range (i.e. reduce noise by twice as much) with a magenta filter.