help with color correct Ppro CS3

[skywalks]

Hey... doin a bit of first time color correction in cs3 using premier pro... umm any suggestions for this shot? I'm trying to take a bit of brightness out of the right corner..

 

[Casalen]

Overblown highlights in digital have hardly any leniency. You can reduce the brightness of that area, but you will not get details back very well. Try adjusting levels or gamma to work on it. I think that program has a Shadows/Highlights filter; if it does, that will be the best choice... but my recommendation is not to get rid of the highlight. It doesn't look all that bad, certainly a lot better than it would look gray and still without detail.

 

[skywalks]

Overblown highlights in digital have hardly any leniency. You can reduce the brightness of that area, but you will not get details back very well. Try adjusting levels or gamma to work on it. I think that program has a Shadows/Highlights filter; if it does, that will be the best choice... but my recommendation is not to get rid of the highlight. It doesn't look all that bad, certainly a lot better than it would look gray and still without detail.

thanks!!! I played around with the adjustments and the highlight/shadow tool was def a good choice.

 

[marques]

you should use maximum color bit depth in the sequence settings and bring down the rgb or use procamp. this will recover some of the lost information.

 

[Richard Allen Crook]

Unfortunately lost information (the blown out window) can never be recovered. I wouldn't mess with it much, but you could try the "Shadow/Highlight" effect. (I think it's in the ADJUST bin). Turn off auto and adjust the "hightlights" to decrease the brightness a bit.

In the future, if you have to put someone in front of a bright thing such as a window, try to either light the actor to bring the levels up closer to the window's levels, OR you can find a way to decrease the amount of light coming through the window by adding cheap window tint you can get from home depot (the removable kind) or hanging sheets/blankets or any type of diffusion material on the outside of the window.

The object is to try and get the brightest portions and the darkest portions closer together in terms of brightness. This will retain as much information as possible into the camera, making post color correction optimized for best results. Best of luck!