Secondaries with the Pros - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 259

Fig. 6.88 With a pen, Bajpai draws an organic shape.
Fig. 6.89 Levels outside the organic shape were lowered.
shadow and you can see what I was talking about in that you can take
an image and completely make it feel like you're there. The whole scene
could play in this atmosphere and when I'm doing things, I know that it's
not just this one shot, there's a whole scene, so its okay for her to look
like this, but if you can't pull that off for the other 50 shots coming after
this, you're in trouble.”
Bajpai is aware that in this instance, he's kind of relit the scene, and
like most colorists, is concerned with what the DP may think. He asserts,
“In many ways, when you're on set and you're a DP working with a
director, the director isn't always telling you everything in the minutest
detail. They want you to be able to convey the feeling that they are going
after.”
I understand his concern that he's walking a very fine line between
(1) the kind of completely relit the image which may piss off the DP and
(2) the DP had no time because they were running behind schedule and
all they had time to do was to throw up a quick light and get the thing