For meeting the future demand of high quality yet economically feasible
high dynamic range video program creation, the inventor proposes a method of in a
video camera (201) setting a
video camera capturing mode of specifying output pixel luminances in one or more graded versions of output video sequences of images, comprising: —an operator of the
video camera moving to at least two positions (Pos1, Pos2) in a scene which have a different illumination compared to each other, and capturing at least one
high dynamic range image (o_ImHDR) for each of those at least two positions of the scene; —a color composition director analyzing for each of the at least two positions the captured at least one
high dynamic range image to determine a region of maximum brightness, and determining at least one of an iris setting, a
shutter time, and an analog
gain setting for the camera; —capturing for each position of one of the at least two positions (Pos1, Pos2) a respective master capturing (RW) using the at least one of an iris setting, a
shutter time setting, and an analog
gain setting for the camera, and keeping iris,
shutter time and analog
gain settings constant for later capturing in at least the corresponding position; —determining at least a respective first graded image (ODR) for the respective master capturing, which consists of mapping by a respective luminance allocation function (FL_M) of digital numbers of the master capturing to nit values of the first graded image (ODR), by the color composition director establishing a shape of such luminance allocation function; and —storing the respective luminance allocation functions (Fs1, Fs2) for the at least two positions, or parameters uniquely defining these functions, in respective memory locations (221, 222) of the camera.