Chapter 5. Color Correction
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
–Winston Churchill
No skill is as essential for a compositor as the ability to authoritatively and conclusively take control of color, such that foreground and background elements seem to inhabit the same world, shots from a sequence are consistent with one another, and their overall look matches the artistic direction of the project.
The compositor, after all, is typically the last one to touch a shot before it goes into the edit. Inspired, artistic color work injects life, clarity, and ...
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