tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56598260426668896642024-02-07T17:04:36.012-08:00Color Grading For ArtistsNot just the how of color grading in Resolve, but the why.Nathan Wagonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14975956611541235113noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659826042666889664.post-35017234760159415492016-02-18T08:27:00.000-08:002016-02-18T08:28:46.141-08:00Today's workAn initial pass through some footage from Keith Mullin's film Scratchbox (which I also gaffed). Getting ready to teach a workshop in Advanced DaVinci Resolve on Saturday at <a href="http://austinmoviegear.com/">Austin Movie Gear</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scratchbox, a film by Keith Mullins. John Sedlack, DP<br /></span></td></tr>
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Nathan Wagonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14975956611541235113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659826042666889664.post-65645551925316163172016-02-11T17:52:00.000-08:002016-02-11T18:03:26.096-08:00Cinematography Rant by Noam KrollNoam Kroll pops up on my news feed on Facebook now and then and I always like what he writes. He doesn't drown you in technical details or arguments about gear. He talks about the principles behind the work. Like this one:<br />
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first started learning the art of color correction for one simple
reason - </span><strong>I
needed to give my DSLR footage more production value by emulating the
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wasn’t long after I started learning the craft that I realized just
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<br />Nathan Wagonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14975956611541235113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659826042666889664.post-9871992322372858372016-01-25T14:05:00.002-08:002016-01-25T14:05:51.447-08:00Environmental Color Casts: Fix It With Luminance and Saturation Tools<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Here's a shot from a short I worked on.
We shot with a 7D in a rented motel room using a couple of 1K's
through diffusion for sunlight. The lights were gelled for daylight
and we balanced for that. As you can see, the color of the walls
themselves skewed the balance of the shot very warm with no way to
balance it out while shooting without adversely affecting skin tones.
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It's not awful. In a little indie short
it might even be acceptable to many viewers. But the shot is nearly
monochrome and lacks any counterbalance to the overall warmth. As
we'll see, even the shadows are saturated with orange. <br /><br />I'm
going to show you how to get from that first state to this, in just a
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The second version is much more
sophisticated and cinematic. It cuts the orange, limits it to the
walls and allows for cool shadows that round out the color profile.
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Here's a direct comparison.</div>
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And you don't have to stand on your
head to do it. Here's how I did: first, I used the Gamma Primary
Wheel in Resolve to bring up the values in the mid tones just a
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You can see the change in the scopes
below – subtle, but significant in that it sets us up for the
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The second step is a little more
complicated. I'm going to use a new node to do 3 simple things that
add up to a big change:
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Second, I'll desaturate those
values considerably but not completely. Default saturation value in
Resolve is 50 – I'll take them down to 35. This will not
completely eliminate the warm bleed from the walls but will
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Third, I'll use the Gamma Primary
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Important note: I am using the
Primary Wheels because of the tonal overlap of the controls, which
blends the grade without creating noticeable edges. I'll also soften
it in the HSL selection itself.
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I'm going to make my selection using
only the Luminance Tool in the HSL Color Selection Menu. You'll see
in the screenshot that I have <i>turned off</i> the Hue and
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For my specific selection I am going to
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Returning to this screenshot again,
you'll see I have also both extended the selection all the way to
full black (the Low value is at 0.0) and, just as importantly I have
used the High Soft control to soften the selection (H. Soft is a
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Using Shift-H I can see my mask in my
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Now I'll move on to the next step and
drop the Saturation to 35 from 50 in my selection. Then I'll go back
to the Gamma Wheel in the Primary Wheels menu and shift the color
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Checking our work, we see that all the
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We're not completely done yet, though.
Looking carefully at the shadows to the left of the man on the bed we
see they are still very saturated and warm. To fix that, we'll go to
the Curves Menu in a new node. On the right of the Curves dialogue
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I've taken the lowest range of tones
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color cast. If you look closely at the headboard of the bed behind
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This gives us a much cleaner look, with
no uncontrolled color or color where we don't want it. This is often
done as part of creating a 'cinematic' look in a grade – the tricky
part is deciding where in the sequence you want this to happen. Early
in a grade it allows you a clean slate for added color, later in a
grade like this it brings in the dimension of 'clean' blacks. <br /><br />I'm
also going to sharpen the whole image up just a little. The camera
settings were for 0 Sharpening – I'd rather control sharpening in
the grade than try to work with footage sharpened in camera. For
that, we go to the misleadingly labeled 'Blur' tool in Resolve. When
the values in the Blur Radius Tool are increased (raised) the image
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Finally, I'm going to bring down the
pillows on the left just a little bit. I am a bit obsessive about the
edges of static frames. I don't want anything on the edges that is
going to lead a viewer's eye out of the frame or away from the focus
of the narrative. Those pillows are just a little too hot. To do this
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"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Color is slippery. Anyone who has ever tried to translate a casually observed color into pigment on canvas knows that the hue will never be the same as what he or she remembers. Variables like light and shadow change the same basic color from warm to cool, light to dark. And, as Albers taught us, chromatic context is also a critical factor. The lively exhibition, "Color Matters," at The Painting Center, comprises paintings by thirteen artists for whom the exploration of color's transience is a driving force."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2016/01/the-painting-center-when-color-matters.html">Some great stuff reviewed in this article.</a></span></span>Nathan Wagonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14975956611541235113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659826042666889664.post-51172830620618562352015-12-31T16:41:00.002-08:002016-01-06T12:09:39.385-08:00Crushing Blacks Precisely - LOG and Curves in Resolve<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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We want the <b>Y Curve</b>. This curve represents the 'Luminosity' channel and changes only tonality/contrast. This is a very important tool in Resolve because with it, the colorist can change global or local contrast relationships <b><i>without increasing color saturation</i></b>. We're going to add points on the curve and change contrast in the lower end of the value scale to bring out the folds in the black T Shirt.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.38;">Another method which sometimes (but not always) makes it easier to see your selection is to use Shift-H after you have selected the area you'll be balancing. While this won't help with your viewer window, which will look like this: </span><br /><br />
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it will have the effect of focusing your RGB Parade on the selection only:</div>
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<span style="line-height: 22.08px;">which can make it easier to balance.</span></div>
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Nathan Wagonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14975956611541235113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659826042666889664.post-12339446566746004832015-12-31T12:06:00.003-08:002016-01-06T12:45:20.904-08:00Orange and Teal<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You may have heard people commenting on the fact that many movies - especially big features - </span><a href="http://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-looks-sort-of-orange-and-blue/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">seem to be always color graded blue and orange</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. You may even think this is a new phenomenon. You would be mistaken. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What’s left? Orange and teal. The red serves as a jolt of strong, saturated color that spices up the image and gives the impression of a full spectrum. Without it, though, we clearly see how limited the palette actually is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nearly all visual art (including film) uses some strategy of palette narrowing or limitation, however, and <a href="http://color-artist.blogspot.com/2015/12/limiting-your-palette.html">you’ll find more about that here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you color grade in film or video you are probably familiar with the terms </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hue</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saturation</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Value</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div>
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The best way to approach </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">correcting color</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(that is, balancing tonal inconsistencies, removing color casts, creating continuity between shots and scenes, etc.) is not ‘</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HSV</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’ but ‘</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">VHS'</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Instead of first correcting Hue, then Saturation, and finally Value </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(HSV)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, it is much easier and more efficient to first correct Value, then Hue, and finally Saturation </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(VHS)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Proactive application of this theory in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">color grading</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> process (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">creating a</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">look</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) can be immensely helpful to the colorist, as it not only encourages the artist to look globally at the shot, the scene or the entire project but also adds structure and methodology to the grading process. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This will not solve everything, but done thoroughly it will create a solid foundation for detailed, contextual tweaks. An important caveat is that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">color - by itself - doesn’t exist</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In a world with only one color, only value and saturation matter. ‘Color’ as we know it </span><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/100/25/15190/F1.expansion.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">only exists in relationships with other colors</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.
</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A color which appears ‘green’ to most people in one context will appear ‘brown’ in another and ‘blue’ in yet another. What is clearly emerald green in an OTS may appear aqua in the reverse because of changed relationships with surrounding colors. Globally (a change affecting everything in the frame)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">modifying the attributes of color in a shot/scene will not always be the final point of a grade. It may still be necessary to modify individual colors to create the color relationships desired, but it will set the stage for those specific modifications and simplify that final stage of the grading process. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So how does this work in practice? Let’s look at a few examples, starting with a composition containing a wide spectrum of hues. A wide spectrum would require either changing saturation or contrast, maybe both. It might look like this: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In this painting by Pierre Puvis De Chavannes (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">War</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 1867), Chavannes uses precisely this approach of many hues, medium contrast and very low saturation in order to keep compositional unity and focus on the important part of the image:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The example below is a painting by Paul Signac, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Portrait of Felix Feneon</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 1890.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Signac is all around the color wheel in this painting but look closely at how he pulls it off. First, note that the value range is very compressed - there is little approaching pure black or pure white. Even the top hat is not pure black but dark gray. All the hues are similarly pushed towards the middle of the value range, even the yellows. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When desaturated, this management of tonal range becomes very obvious:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="signac-felix-feneon2" height="489px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5LiA72mlM1SIfwpbBOI5MorWMNIjQ3lJVn-n2aYACvhAE8n_q_mDvLzzKBYlwTmOSgCqBTsaEW33huQ7RwIwoE9bMkIk3grYBmprVWKRwN64Xf1IrTk0aFQRNSoA_sr7TFo4_i14" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="624px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The values of many of the colors are nearly identical (the reds, yellows and blues on the right, for example).The brightest point is the lily and that is nowhere near pure white. The tonal composition, however, is clearly designed to lead your eye to the center. Note also that all the colors remain very saturated. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In all three of these examples from classic Hollywood films, we can see in the gray scale versions exactly where the focal points are through the value composition. In the example at the top (Desk Set), it’s the woman in the center desk. In the 2nd example (Seven Year Itch), it’s the two figures in the center of the frame, in the last (The Man Who Knew Too Much), it’s the three figures in the front, the only points in the frame with real white. In all three we have strong, saturated color, but the color is not distracting because of the strict control of values. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The practical question is ‘how do I make this theory work for me?’ Obviously when looking at big budget features, these strategies are decided in pre-production but they are also available - and useful - to filmmakers without those resources. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<br />Nathan Wagonerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14975956611541235113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659826042666889664.post-10100482480954555212015-12-31T12:03:00.002-08:002016-01-01T20:27:35.590-08:00Limiting Your Palette <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Looking at low budget/indie film one of the most glaring problems is the lack of budget and/or time for production design, art direction, set dressing and locations - the very things that determine how your film looks. The most common result of this lack of resources can be very simply put: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">there are too many colors in the frame </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- too many hues, uncontrolled saturation, frequently poor control of values. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If they can do it, we can too. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And even a few devoted to the palettes of specific Directors, like Wes Anderson.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s make it clear, though - if you want your film to look like </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Grand Budapest Hotel</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, most of that happens in pre-production. That work starts with the concept art, the production design, the locations, sets, wardrobe and props and is carried forward by the DP and finally given to the editor and colorist. You can’t shoot something in your best friends’ apartment next weekend and expect the same results. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What this demonstrates is that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">colorful</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> does not necessarily mean </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lots of colors</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. It means </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">color used well</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you look closely at the stills above and compare them to the palette you’ll see that although all the colors in the frames conform to this palette (except for some occasional teal), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the palette is not fully represented in any of the frames</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> except the dinner scene (bottom). Nearly every scene is dominated by a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><b>subset</b></i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of the palette - only a few colors. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Because the actual number of hues in the frame is very small, the saturation can be very intense, giving the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">feel</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of ‘colorful’ but with only a limited number of actual colors. I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://color-artist.blogspot.com/2015/12/hue-saturation-and-value-in-color.html">discuss the color theory behind this at greater length here. </a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enough said.]</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’ve all been in color situations where we </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">know</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that green is just… too </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">green</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The obvious thing to do is fix it - add a little orange (or subtract some blue) to dull it, drop the saturation, change the value to make it darker, even alter nearby colors to change the context - any one of those tweaks might fix the immediate problem. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But the problem with fixing color problems on a shot by shot or scene by scene basis can lead us into much bigger problems of continuity or even conflict with the story. When we move beyond </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">color correction</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">creating a look</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, we want to be thinking </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">globally</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (the whole project) and not </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">locally</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (shots or scenes). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Look at things. Look at your footage. Think about your story. Look at pictures. Look at magazines in the dentists office. Idly sit around looking at advertisements. You can use </span><a href="http://palettegenerator.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">palette generators</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to derive palettes from images (there are lots of them), or you can use tools like the </span><a href="https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adobe Color Wheel Tool</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to create something entirely your own. Find a palette that works with your story and your footage and aim your color grading in that direction. Show it to your client. Show it to your mom. </span></div>
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