Chapter 5. Color Correction
Color is my obsession, joy and torment... one day, at the deathbed of a dear friend, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples, analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death imposed on her motionless face. | ||
| --Claude Monet | ||
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 ...
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