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Hi guys,

i am an aspiring cinematographer who will be shooting a short in the next two weeks in the red epic.

im extremely nervous and have come here to seek advise.

there is a location that involves very low lighting conditions, and i am wondering how i can achieve the image i want with little to no grain.

here is the exact lighting setup and location i lit, but it is a still taken from the 5d mark 3


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how can i achieve this exact image without any grain?

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR IMPUT!

sorry for such a large image.
 
well, you won't have any grain shooting digitally. if you're worried about noise you're going to have to run noise reduction (neat video is good) as red's don't do any noise reduction for you (like your 5d). pretty simple.
 
Shoot ISO 320 and expose correctly. Maybe expose a little more then bring your shadows down in post.
 
Noel R. said:
Shoot ISO 320 and expose correctly. Maybe expose a little more then bring your shadows down in post.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but by shooting at 320, I'm going away from the native ISO of the camera, thus loosing latitude?

i understand the lower ISO the less noise, but cant I just do that at 800?
 
there's no such thing as native ISO on a digital camera, especially a red. there will be less noise if you light for 320 and your latitude will be fine. you can still go 800, but if you're super worried about noise... add light or add noise.
 
You will lose range in the highs, but that's a bigger issue when you have a lot of range to cover and you don't have control of the situation. In this particular shot you should be able to control the highs enough so that you don't have to worry about clipping your highlights. If you expose at 800 you're left with little wiggle room to bring up the mids without adding noise to your lows. One of the issues is that the monitor looks brighter when shooting darker scenes so people tend to underexpose. It get's even worst if you underexpose at ISO 800.
 
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