Creating Looks - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 422

Fig. 10.41 Falcon's new
“Chicago cool” primary
correction.

Fig. 10.42 Data from Primary room.

Pete Jannotta also gives the football image a look of his own. He works
for a while before I prompt him to tell me what he's doing. “I desaturated
it,” he explains. “I'm just experimenting. I want this one to feel strong.
Not too clean. Feel gutsier, because of his tape, the dirty tape, and go with
that suggestion of it being tough.” It's a telling point that he derives the
direction of his correction from an element of the picture, like the tape on
the player's fingers.

White's go up, blacks go down, gamma goes down. It always makes
it more theatrical . . . printlike.

- Pete Jannotta, The Filmworkers Club

“Then the other thing I was thinking of with this picture is softening
the outside. But then I looked at it, and it's kind of already done. It does