Advice from Colorists - Lantern lighting

Imaginate

Imaginate

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These are framegrabs from a western short of mine... shot with a 5D using kerosine lanterns and lcd lighting.. the white balance was screwed up and the images came out really red. I gave a pass at grading these shots but skin tones are still looking too pink for that kind of light.

Would anyone like to give there interpretation at what these should look like?

7 uncompressed TIFS for grading at
http://www.sendspace.com/file/hecq92

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Just took em to photoshop, but in colorista you have even better tools.


In primary you pull out the oranges.
Adjust saturation.
Than you go to HSL and pull the red and orange dots towards the yellow dot, to unify skin tones.

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Finetune in the Master section with the single color values - done.

best, Frank
 
yes that definitely helps pushing the red and orange toward yellow. Is there rule about how much to push the shadows into blue... do you just eyeball it or check your scopes ? My first round of grading I was using curves and pulling out the reds that way. I come from more of a photoshop still image background... why is the three way corrector more effective than using curves or is it?

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your grade seemed to give some of those yellow green overtones which I like, colorista didn't really produce that effect.
 
Imaginate said:
your grade seemed to give some of those yellow green overtones which I like, colorista didn't really produce that effect.
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Since you are using Looks here, there is even more tools for you.
The green overtones are a balance between magenta and green.
So you pull in an other instance of the color wheels and push the dots in highlights and shadows towards green.
It´s a lot of minimal tweaking, eyeballing and experience.
I do that since over 15 years now, so if you don´t get the results instantly, don´t worry, there is nothing wrong, it just takes some time to get into it.

Oh, and make sure you got the highlight rolloff shoulder always as last effect in the row.

@David Sorry, I don´t know much about Vegas, so I can't be much help here.
But I guess it has some sort of color wheels, that would work similar.

Frank
 
Postmaster said:
@David Sorry, I don´t know much about Vegas, so I can't be much help here.
But I guess it has some sort of color wheels, that would work similar.

Frank
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Frank,

It does have color wheels, but they don't adjust the same way as those shown here -- no little colored dots around the edge that can be pulled in a direction. I was hoping to find a way to translate this into the Vegas controls. Been struggling for awhile now to achieve this kind of look, and it's eluded me.

Thanks though.

David
 
You could always pull it into a separate grading app, such as the free version of Resolve (if you can wrap your head around the UI).
 
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