Screen Grabs: 'a portrait of Zoey'

the process is always a little different each time. depends on what my subject-matter is and the 'theme' i wish to achieve. But generally I like to shoot from 3-5pm when time and client allows me too. It give a very neutral light for me to handle in post. now although the footage looks dulled out and blueish. i find that the blue is alot easier to deal with than yellow. and there is still plenty of colour-information stored in the camera that u can bring out in CC. I do my CC in Prem Pro 1.5 at the moment. I dont use Photoshop because the process changes when u get into motion and colours.
In prem. I colour correct by going thru my:
RGB idividually to play with their levels and blends.
Saturations
Gamma
Contrast
(Brightness) very dodgy to increase.. i stay away from this
White
Black
.... this is my general process. But for me RGB is the most important to learn. The colour wheel is great to understand how the colours blend and force each one another to rise above the other. This way u can pick which colours are more important to you.
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I thought it thru and the process is pretty much the basic synopsis i posted earlier actually, its impossible to give a direct approach to "all footage" that will work every time.... It all comes down to the lighting and especially the colour pallette u have in your video. rich colours? soft colours? warm, cold etc.. and then what u want to achieve should be know before u start the CC
In this particular example that i posted I basically (in accordance to the process above) raised my saturation, raised my neutral gamma level, raised the contrast centre and did not touch the normal contrast. I boosted my green gain and slightly droped the blue gain, raised the red gain by a ball-hair. then in my colour wheel i tinted a pink/voilet colour. Later added a ball hair of yellow. Between all of these changes i was adjusting the other to maintain resolution and quality... its a process of going forward thru all the options just with small changes and then going back and then back again. Till u happy.

basically that is what i do.
hope this helped someone?
 
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