Water Color Correction

[bugsbunny]

Hello I am new here and I want advice on color correcting. Please tell me what is best. Does it depend on my taste or are there standards I should follow? I color corrected the ocean in After Effects. I will post more grabs later. Thank you for your help.

http://s11.imagehosting.us/uploadpoint/imagehosting_upload_storage/nouser_1209/T0_-1_1209190.jpghttp://images5.pictiger.com/images/d1/5d5f2692a65523e851f663cf65086ad1.jpg

Is there too much blue? Does it look to saturated?​

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[foosiemac]

cross your eyes

cross your eyes

bring the two images together, try crossing your eyes to do this and you'll see what I think looks like a very nice water color with all the translucency of real surf. Just my opinion.

 

[GenJerDan]

The ocean can be SO many different colors, it's difficult to say what would be "correct".

To me, the above just looks like Atlantic & Pacific.

It's really going to come down to what kind of "look" you want. (And how much the correction will screw up other things in the picture)

 

[bugsbunny]

Thank you for your comments. I have no clue where the picture went. I took your advice foosiemacand I blended the pictures together. I agree that it seemed more realistic. My first attempt looked like Blue Powerade water. I like powerade though so I might stick with it. I would post the new image but I don't want to go to the trouble of posting it and it will disappear anyway.

GenJerDan you are right about it depending on what type of look I'm going for. I saw Lords of Dogtown recently and the water was well...can't really quite make out what effect they were going for. Seemed like they wanted a rocker early 80's music video look. It gave it a very weird tone. I like the way Blue Crush looked. I really want the water to look like Hawaii even if it's like the lake down the street.

I would try to post some more images and footage as well but I think it will probably disappear.

Do you know where I can post jpegs and footage without it disapearing?

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