Secondaries with the Pros - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 212

Craig Leffel
Craig Leffel started as an assistant editor at venerable Chicago post house, Cutters, back
in the days when they were still cutting on KEMs. He then moved on to colorist jobs at
two Chicago powerhouses, Skyview and Editel, then became senior colorist and partner
at Optimus.
He has worked primarily in spots, using DaVinci, Spirit, Baselight, Lustre, Color,
Scratch, and others. Leffel is currently the director of production for the production arm
of Optimus called One.
Leffel graduated from Indiana University at Bloomington.
Fig. 6.9
Leffel continues his correction. “Now that I've got an isolation and a
sort of base level correction I'm doing an outside vignette because in the
original image, the sides are real flat. There's an even exposure across the
whole thing. It's always nice to have a vignette there to blend out—not
to do an obvious vignette, to darken the edges obviously—but to do a soft
vignette ( Figure 6.14 ) .
“So, I brought down gamma and black and a little bit of gain, but not
much. Mostly gamma. This image is mostly gamma anyway. There's not a
whole lot of black and not a whole lot of white, so almost all of this image
is easily manipulated with gamma.”
You don't really sense the vignette there. You just sense richness.
- Craig Leffel, Optimus