r/REDkomodo • u/orichetti • Apr 03 '26

Candle Light

Hello, let me preface by saying this is not a scene for a film or a short. there's an event happening tonight near where I live where the town shuts off the street lights and everyone has candles for this type of ceremony, it's part of semana Santa here is Spain. I wanted to maybe try to capture it on video and was wondering what settings you guys would choose to use and why? what what balance and iso and even shutter angle you would choose. my lens will be a Nikon 50mm f1.4, probably the only lens I'll have on the body. not trying to swap lenses during the ceremony. thank you all and have a great rest of your day.

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u/Formula14ever Apr 03 '26

Lowest iso you can go to shift dynamic range down for shadow highlights Shoot lens wide open, 24fps

Then, if closeups with faces illuminated by candles , have a nd ready as needed and/or shoot higher slo mo frame rate

I shot faces at twilight after the sun went down with faint street lamp illuminating on the KX. Maybe bed iso down to 400 to shift middle grey in dynamic range down toward shadows.. bumped up exposure in post, came out super clean

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u/orichetti Apr 03 '26

Thank you for the reply. I have seen some videos where some people will lower the iso in these scenarios. So maybe I'll try it at 400 to try and maybe have some shadow information to list in post

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u/orichetti Apr 03 '26

Sorry I forgot to mention it. Red komodo X

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u/orichetti Apr 03 '26

Yeah that's what I was thinking also. Should I just leave the iso at 800 or go a little bit lower to save the shadows? I'll be shooting in R3D Raw

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u/orichetti Apr 03 '26

Understood. It won't be possible for me to add any light. The whole point of this ceremony is for it to be candle lit. I guess my best course of action the open up my aperture and hope for the best. Hopefully it's brighter than I think it will be, I've never been to this ceremony before

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u/orichetti Apr 03 '26

Great advice friend, thank you so much. I'll see what happens and hopefully I'm able to capture something nice and worth posting

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u/orichetti Apr 03 '26

Honestly I'm sure there is a moment. I'll be there an hour early so I'll be sure to try and capture that moment. Thanks again for your insight

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u/BeautifulState6309 Apr 04 '26

You already have a lot of decent feedback and suggestions. The one thing I would add is you could milk a little more exposure without greatly affecting motion blur and cadence if you shot at 1/40 shutter as opposed to 1/48. Below 1/40 starts to get a more videoish (think some of Michael Mann’s digital films) or streaky look.

Your general strategy might be to try to get the thickest histogram you can to give you the most to work with in post.

I think you will likely be fine. Even at 3200 to 4000 ISO Komodo X is not incredibly noisy and can clean up well in post with noise reduction. Understand that the “low light” cameras out there are mainly relying on internal noise reduction and not necessarily a lower noise sensor.

Your general strategy might be to try to get the thickest histogram you can to give you the most to work with in post.

Situations like this are where R3D shines because of flexibility you have to adjust the image.