Matching Shots - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 374

Fig. 9.22 Data for the “cool” image in Primary room.

Fig. 9.23 Split between shots, “base” image is on the bottom.

and the highlight up at the same time. “Then there's just a question of
trimming the colors. A little overall hue correction would be a good cheat.”
Janet Falcon of Shooters Post is next up. She starts in on the correc-
tion with her eyes almost completely on the video monitor.

A lot of color correction is about defining edges and contrast and
being able to see what you want to see.

- Janet Falcon, Shooters Post

“I'm just trying to get it somewhere close to a starting point before I
bother going back and forth.” Falcon wipes between the “correct” and
cool lion, deciding, “There's way too much red in the blacks. I need to
brighten this up. This one (in the façade) still looks blue. There're actu-
ally variations of color (across the front of the building), cooler to warmer
shades. And this one looks like it's painted all one color . . . flat. So this