Getting those settings perfect?

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When your shooting a sunny day in the park, how do you make sure your background (specifically dense trees) is not really dark and blending in with the rider. What would your iso,aperture, fps be for a sunny day. When I'm shooting I'm always worried about the snow being over exposed and then the background gets super dark.
 
ill probably have somebody disagree with my comment, but this is my settings. i film at f 11, iso 100 95% of the time, because they work and they are good for most shots. as far as frame rate/shutter, i always film at 720p 60fps (highest frame rate on my t2i). the shutter speed is where most of my variability comes from. ive found that anything over 1/120 looks fine for video, so i try to keep that as my lowest shutter speed (which i only need for darker days. i never film at night so that would be different but if i need anything brighter than that i will adjust the iso/aperature). for sunny days, ill normally shoot at about 1/250 or even higher

sparknotes: for really bright days, iso 100, f-11, and shutter around 1/250 at 60 fps
 
Had the same problem especially on cloudy days so I recently switched to flat profile. Basically you choose the color profile User def. 1 and drop the contrast around -3 (some even go to -4) and the saturation to -2. Your shots will be flatter and you'll need to color correct them in post-production (if you're not comfortable color-correcting you might wanna check a few tutorial before shooting flat) but you'll catch a lot more details than if you over expose in the standard profile or any of the presets .

Here's my latest edit (and first try shooting flat profile), as you can see the details are not bad at all for a t3i and 720p.
https://vimeo.com/90281771

 
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