Creating Looks - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 440

Graphic Looks
From the frantic energy and grittiness of the SWAT scene, we'll transition
to the Zen-like simplicity of Artbeats' image of a man sitting at the end of
a pier. It was an image that spoke to Mike Matusek.
“I look at this one and I think of it as more of a graphic image,”
Matusek explains, “So I'll try doing a few looks. First a silhouette, maybe
crush it a little bit and see where that goes. Maybe that'll be too muddy.
Then sometimes what I do is bring the blacks to zero and don't crush, but
Fig. 10.72 Source image
courtesy of Artbeats.
Fig. 10.73 Tektronix
WVR7100 screengrab.
Upper left: YRGB Parade.
Upper right: composite
waveform. Lower right:
vectorscope. Lower left:
vectorscope zoomed in 5x.