Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think Sonny may be referring to me. coming from a commercial photo background I tend to take color temperatures, casts and cross overs; neutral grays, blacks, and whites fairly seriously. I often use manual white point setting with digital; as well as still using my Minolta color temperature meter. Old habits die hard. I also admire successful, creative use of color casts; studying the best film DP's and lighting directors. It comes down to "does it work?" (obviously a subjective call) Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Nov 13, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Mark Rabiner >> <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> I think color issues arise when you have a general over saturation. >>> Then you're going to find casts in every element of the image. >>> Just taking down the saturation often results in very little >>> additional >>> tweaking. The colors really not all that off. They are just too >>> much. >>> >> >> Yeah, George jumps on me from time to time for what he calls >> strange color >> casts on some of my pictures. I go around to all of my monitors >> and I >> can't see it. >> >> Reminds me of onc when I was in television, and we were doing post >> production on a beer commercial. Of course there were at least >> ten monitors >> playing the image in the control room. >> >> The client asks, "Which monitor has the right color?" >> >> The director turns, waves his hand across the array and asks, >> "Which one do >> you like?" >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Sonny > > > Who's George? > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information