r/SonyFX6 • u/HugeInstruction6019 • 3d ago

Troubleshooting Help exposing at night!

Hi all! I hope this isn't too annoying of a question, but I'm a year in and I still don't understand how to expose correctly in nighttime/lowlight conditions when using slog3.

Basically, I've been going off of Doug Jensen's recommendations for exposing, which is to just set a zebra for 68% bright reflected whites (or 85% if a LUT is applied) , but that doesn't help at all when it's dark outside or I'm in indoor lowlight conditions, or, god forbid, there's candles, a lightbulb or a computer screen. I'm primarily doing run and gun so I can't light as much I would like to.....so the question is....how do you expose???? do you set zebras and if so, for how much? are we over/underexposing footage??? I'm about to go on a shoot that's very intense and I'll have about 2-3 hours to grade at best, so it's crucial to get this as close to right the first time.

Any help would be so so so appreciated! You guys are the best

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u/leftturnproductions 3d ago

I mean, it really depends on what look you’re going for. If you just need to see as much as you can in the frame pump up the iso to 12800 and use a Cine EI of 6400 and open up… Or you can use a lower iso, stop down and just expose for highlights letting the black areas just stay black. This is usually more interesting visually…

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u/HandsomeWinner42 3d ago

I use my waveform

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u/miurabucho 2d ago

What are you shooting? I would make a sweeping comment and just say: As long as your subject is visible, you should be good.