how do i get this color effect?


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how do i get this color effect?
by john lynn on Nov 5, 2009 at 4:10:20 am

is it done with a camera lens or after effects?

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Re: how do i get this color effect?
by Mark Suszko on Nov 5, 2009 at 4:50:20 pm

Specifically what? The blue tint can be done with gelled lighting, lens filters and post-production color correction, or any combination of those. There's buttons for the "bleach bypass" look in plug-ins like Nattress and Magic Bullet Looks.

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Re: how do i get this color effect?
by Rick Wise on Nov 5, 2009 at 5:37:57 pm

Much of the look involves post manipulation. After Effects is just one solution. There are others. It may be the camera was color-balanced warm or cool (depending on the scene) to help the process, but I would guess the heavy lifting happened in post. Think bleach-bypass, remove all colors except the desired one, play with gamma, etc.

Rick Wise
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Re: how do i get this color effect?
by Richard Herd on Nov 5, 2009 at 6:57:28 pm

What are you shooting on?

I find that I cannot let anything actually be black when shooting video (0 IRE) because there is no data to manipulate in post, so I light to a room luminance of 10 fcs, which is pretty bright to the human eye, then add light from there. In post, I crush the low end to black and or add color into the shadows.

I personally do not like showing the unfinished photography to deciders because they don't quite get it.

I use Apple Color.

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