How much can colour grading save this (pic included)

[leaftors]

I shot a short this past week and the contrast ratio between the wall and the subject isn't as high as I would've liked it to be.

How hard will it be to darken the background wall without affecting the subjects? I noticed that the subjects and the wall are the same tones.

http://i.imgur.com/nT9dq.jpg

 

[drapeama]

Can't really do miracles here, but with Levels & Curves, here's something you can easily do:

 

[Chris Adler]

You could use masks and darken everything other than the talent (vignettes).

 

[drapeama]

You could use masks and darken everything other than the talent (vignettes).

For a still it would probably work perfectly, but in video, I guess it would look strange a bit.

 

[arco1]

You have some nice rim lighting in there, so I'm not sure exactly where you'd like to add contrast. However, you can use curves adjustment on a luminousity layer to gain some added contrast. In the image attached, I focused on adding some separation between the woman's face and the wall by finding the right points on the curve in each channel. Then I pushed down the left point on the curve and pushed up the rightmost point to add some contrast.


Jim
Colorburst Video


Original


Curves on luminosity layer

 

[Chris Adler]

Tracked vignettes are used all the time. Wouldn't look silly at all.

 

[Pickthorne]

Keyed out the skintones after a gamma curve adjustment and brought up their saturation a bit, then added a bit of glow:

 

[ErikTande]

I shot a short this past week and the contrast ratio between the wall and the subject isn't as high as I would've liked it to be.

How hard will it be to darken the background wall without affecting the subjects? I noticed that the subjects and the wall are the same tones.

http://i.imgur.com/nT9dq.jpg

I love the rim lights on the subject! Nice work.