Okay so it really wasn't yellow snow but in this case blue snow. I remember the senior colorist at a place I worked once said when reviewing the work of a freelance colorist, "Hey they got the snow white and that's hard to do so that's a good job." Well in color correcting a recent snow and crevice scene I was told I took all the "Rich Blue" out. I had looked at the shot and found it too look unwhite balanced because it was so blue. I made it nice and basically white like I would expect to see it. The director said oh no I was there and it was blue. I put back in the blue but it really looks unnatural to me. In my mind the brain will tell you something is white if it thinks it's supposed to be white or neutral in color. In this case snow over an ice glazier which I corrected to be white or neutral and the flesh tone looked good. To me the viewer is in their living room and the brain isn't getting the clues that even though it might be blueish it really should be white so that's where my color correction goes to make the brain happy and make it white. I can't imagine even out in the field the scene was as blue as the camera sensor picked up but perhaps I'm too focused on getting blacks black and whites white. Curious how others feel about color correction interpreting things so the brain is happy even if it is not absolutely true to the actual image the camera picked up? I like my original color correction and find the blue tint disturbing and not "Rich and Full." This also speaks to a phenomena I've noticed where people offline for so long with uncorrected footage they begin to believe the camera raw is the way it's supposed to look and when it gets corrected they see it as wrong. I figure this is a good group to get differing views on this.
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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