screwing with editing stuff... i like it

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mobiledeli

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AFTER
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some more
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just for techs, im in premiere (sp?) and im boosting the contrast, lowering brightness, and playing with levels till i get good stuff
 
The house shot and lake shot look nice

Lake shot looks like something outta scarface to me for some reason...?
 
ok so i'm a jerk...but I felt like playing with it:

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i used the before picture and without looking i sorta came up with a similar look...not really. But anyways that was pure vegas...no magic bullet

Oh and ya... nice grabs :)
 
The house, door knob, and cellar door look like something from a horror movie. Very cool shots, especially the house, I like the angle you shot from. Are these just practice shots or are they from a film your working on?
 
Pretty sweet. They all look good, but the ext. of the house is too grainy as well as the last shot. Not bad.
 
hey yeah, they just practice shots, but the lake and cigar is from my vacation to florida. yeah i didnt use magic bullet, just premiere. the house was where i was gonna shot a movie, but that fell through, so i got some cool shots in case one day i can get back in there.

personally though, i really like the last shot because of the grain, it was kinda intentional. loll.
 
your stuff is good for promoting the "see you don't need magic bullet for everything" school of thought... see, it can be done!
 
Appears to me as if all the before shots are under exposed and flat. No tonal range.

Are these the camera originals or were they treated that way before you did the after treatments ?

When you push underexposed images "up" they get grainy (noisy) and that seems to show in these examples.
 
Hmmm...why do alot of people rag on Magic Bullet on these boards? It's a tool nothing more nothing less. The bottomline is this...you can give a man all the tools and materials to build a house, but if he doesn't know how to build a house the end result is gonna be crap. Yes some people use it as a crutch (amateurs), but the presets get you going in the right direction for the look you want and then you can adjust them manually. Still infinitely better than experimenting for hours color correcting a shot. The No. 85 filter would have gotten the images real close to the look that he was attempting, with only a few clicks of the mouse.
 
sorry for being anal but the lake shots aren't the same frames, not a big deal but the shadowing and framing on the building is very different and give the grabs different feel just from that.
the cigar kicks ass tho
 
the lake shot was foiur or so frames later of a panning shot. so it is pretty much the same. and the images do look flat for some reason. no idea why though.
 
They are "flat" because they are under exposed. Check the original pix by taking a look at the histogram. This will show in graphic form where all the tonal information is "placed" and I think you will notice in these images, all the info is low without any peaks. ( Peaks = highlights/whites)

Use of histograms and the grading scopes in your CC are essential to good color correction and it is important to get the levels correct. (especially if you are going to broadcast)

It is also really helpful to have a "properly " exposed original to work with, otherwise you are just "fixing" photography mistakes and not actually doing anything creative.

There is a great CC book available that has been mentioned in this forum many times.
 
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