Comments on: Using Color Temp to Create Depth and Dimension with your HD Video

By: Francis Rene

Francis Rene — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:52:58 +0000

So here’s the video I’m talking about. We just launched it an hour ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=awxUDbQLyCM

The band shot was light with 6 red heads: one key for each band members with softbox and shooting through fabric and the two back light you see in the video. And like I said, the rest was all using ambient light because of time restriction. When the guy gets into the small room where the girl, this is where I replaced the fluorescents with only 4 6500k tubes.

I think for the budget and the short amount of time we had, the result is not so bad.

So again, I can’t thank you enough for all the help you give to the video community.

Francis

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:12:28 +0000

Eli. I always sit in on the color correction sessions.

By: Francis Rene

Francis Rene — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:15:56 +0000

Hi Shane!
Thank you very much for your input both on your site and Twitter.

We did our shoot last weekend (it was a music video) and I followed your high budget advice… which turn out really cheap for us.

The shoot took place in a small room, maybe 15×15, lit with about 16 fluorescents. Since they were all different colors, what i wanted to do was to remove the fluorescents and replace them with only 4 x 6500k tubes I bought from Home Depot at 5$ each to create my ambiance and then use my Kinos to fill the shadows.

But when I turned on the new fluorescent, I realized that I might not need my kinos. So I brought my 5d in, dialed it to 3200k and that was it. Exactly the look I wanted. I could have use the kino in few shots but because we only had a day to shoot, i decided not to and I fixed few shadows in post.

The video is not release yet, probably next weekend, but I will post it as soon it’s available so you can have a look.

Again, thanks a lot for your great help. And it really appreciate to have inputs from famous people in the business. We don’t see this often.

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By: Eli

Eli — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:53:54 +0000

Hey Shane, many new things learned as usual – Thanks so much.

Can you elaborate a bit on the Grading post-production process of Crazy/Beautiful and Need for speed? How were they kept in the loop so that they didn’t try to “correct” what to a colorist probably looked like incorrect WB?

Thanks, Eli

By: Alexandru

Alexandru — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 09:17:17 +0000

Thank you for your answer Shane.

Thinking of the digital cinematography I´m wondering what´s “the look of the future”. All this looks we use to obtain on film through over, underexp, under, over developing, ENR, etc. With digital you can´t do this.
A colourist said once, “When you work with digital, don´t strive to achieve the film look. You start from the beginning and you find a look that looks good.”
What do you think Shane?

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:45:15 +0000

Alexandru. It was more the extreme of over exposing that image 2 1/3 stops along with the low contrast film stock that created this look. Yes normally by over exposing the film you get a more rich contrasty feel, but this special cocktail that we did with the flatter contrast stock mixed with extreme over exposure delivered the look of Crazy Beautiful.

By: Alexandru

Alexandru — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:05:00 +0000

Hi Shane! I find your blog very interesting, thank you for sharing.
I have one questions. Your are saying, “Interior shot: Tungsten film stock 320 ISO exposed at 32 ISO”. This mean you over exposed the film about +2 and 1/3? This make me think of a more contrast rich look but it looks to me the picture has a low contrasty look so I almost thought you underexposed the negative. What am I missing?
Thanks!

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:45:55 +0000

Dara. Thanks for the comment and support.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:22:45 +0000

Carlos Diaz.Thank you so much for the kind words and support.

By: Carlos Diaz

Carlos Diaz — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:49:11 +0000

Great ,great post thank you for sharing.I really want to become a cinematographer even when i have my white hair and i going a make it,please Shane keep writing thing like this,keep giving us your valuable experience your are a good inspiration for us.

By: Dara

Dara — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:41:24 +0000

Thanks SHane for the info.

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:12:23 +0000

Fabiano Silva.The film latitude held all of the informations. We would print it down to get the unique look that we we’re going for.

By: Fabiano Silva

Fabiano Silva — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:58:44 +0000

There was any correction during the development in the lab or just the film latitude hold all information?

By: Randolph Sellars

Randolph Sellars — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 19:20:29 +0000

Thanks Shane for the clarification. I’m clear now – I’ve observed those distinct color differences. Metal Halide lights are often found in gymnasiums, factories, and big box hardware stores, correct? I think that I have probably been mistaking Metal Halide lights for Mercury Vapor. I didn’t realize that Mercury vapor is now less common. BTW, I’ve been saying degrees of Kelvin for many years as well! Thanks again for sharing your expertise!

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:21:07 +0000

Clyde Harrelson. Yeah baby, thats the way to do it! Thanks for the comment and support.

By: Clyde Harrelson

Clyde Harrelson — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:58:12 +0000

Shane,
In the past, I bought a 1k mercury vapour bulb with a mogul base. I relamped it into one of my stupid lights and plugged it in. After the lamp heated up, it emitted that beautiful cyan colour temp that you are talking about! I’ve also used four 500w HPS grow lights all tied into a single 2000w digital ballast for a nigh-time exterior scene. The setup worked great as far as mimicking bokehed-out streetlights.
Keep up the great work and good luck with Need for Speed.
=Clyde

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:52:41 +0000

Laurence Zankowski. Thats cool, thank you so much for the kind words and support.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:49:59 +0000

Bob Watters. Thank you for the kind words and catching that. I have been calling it degrees of kelvin for 20 years haha.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:41:55 +0000

Eric Diosay. Thanks my friend, this post has a nice asian flavor with much dimension and delicacy liek sushi. Not like shit bag heavy handed pub food hahah.