JoshFromPerth

Thanks @webrunner5 Can you see how the footage has lost quite a bit of detail in the highlights though? I shot this using the recommended profile but I feel using +2 ev is way too much for surf / open outdoor Australian sun - perhaps I'd have been better using .5 if that, what do you think? Also I found it really tricky to bring the colour back in at that exposure

Here's the end product but I had to take that artistic direction rather than my preferred more natural approach because the light was just so poorly exposed. If you can't tell what I mean, I'll try and put together an ungraded clip today - The weather was tough, overcast raining in the background (no colour, blurred, little light) but I still found the footage needed so much work to get any contrast back which skewed the little colour there was present. Deadcode: I don't see any correlation between a GoPros capability and my question? Edit: Removed the question about EOSHD, read up about it. Is there anything the EOSHD profiles provide that I can't just experiment with and set myself? I thought it was some software rather than a PDF with settings recommendations

Can someone pass comment on how one might expose / grade anything in the surf where you're dealing with verrrry bright highlights, not a lot of darks, and often very little difference between the ocean and sky / horizon line. Using the aforementioned profile I got some terrible results exposing to +2, but even dropping to +1 everything is still very difficult to pull back from the flat, crushed blacks look the aforementioned profile provides..