I'm interested in any advice you all may have regarding sunset scenes. I'm scheduled to shoot two of them in the next few weeks and although I'm fairly confident that it will turn out nicely, I've never done a sunset before and I'm a curious whether there's anything I can do on-set to maximize the effect.
It's a low-budget production, so I'm using dual Samsung SCD-23 MiniDVs. Nice camera for the money, but I'm getting very annoyed that it does not allow you to adjust focus, aperture and shutter independently, but rather only one at a time. I'm not necessarily against buying an adapter ring (it's a 30mm lens) and a filter, but it's going to have to come out of my own pocket so I'd rather avoid that if I can, or use a homebrew solution.
My foremost concern is the safety of the cameras. Am I going to burn up the CCDs if I frame the sun directly?
I'm also curious how many films manage to get that lovely orange silhouette. Is there post work involved there? I'm particularly thinking of one of the last shots in Hidalgo when Mortenson rides off into the sun. The behind-the-scenes shots indicated that the captured shot looked pretty plain and uninteresting, but somehow they managed to tweak it to produce the result seen in the movie.
Thanks in advance for any comments you can give me.
It's a low-budget production, so I'm using dual Samsung SCD-23 MiniDVs. Nice camera for the money, but I'm getting very annoyed that it does not allow you to adjust focus, aperture and shutter independently, but rather only one at a time. I'm not necessarily against buying an adapter ring (it's a 30mm lens) and a filter, but it's going to have to come out of my own pocket so I'd rather avoid that if I can, or use a homebrew solution.
My foremost concern is the safety of the cameras. Am I going to burn up the CCDs if I frame the sun directly?
I'm also curious how many films manage to get that lovely orange silhouette. Is there post work involved there? I'm particularly thinking of one of the last shots in Hidalgo when Mortenson rides off into the sun. The behind-the-scenes shots indicated that the captured shot looked pretty plain and uninteresting, but somehow they managed to tweak it to produce the result seen in the movie.
Thanks in advance for any comments you can give me.