Secondaries with the Pros - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 250

The truth of the matter is that if we graded film to look like what it
should be, people would not like their film.

- Bob Sliga, Apple Color

Because the original image is balanced and in a good place, Sliga moves
to secondaries to modify the original, using secondaries like layers of pri-
maries without any qualification. (See the “Secondaries Use Is Changing”
sidebar.) “Now I'm just going to pull the gammas down like this. Really
compress the blacks. I'm gonna crank up some more contrast by rais-
ing the highlights. I don't care about these highlights,” Sliga explains,
pointing to the white tape on the center's fingers ( Figures 6.71 and 6.72 ) .

Fig. 6.71 The secondary
correction with no
qualification at all.

Fig. 6.72 Note the numbers under the color wheels.