ReelCast Color Correction

ReelCast is now offering Color Correction services using Apple Color 1.5!
You can watch a larger version here.

When is color correction useful?

- Bad color balance
- Mismatched cameras
- Matching scenes
- Enhancing a story arc and character development.
- Day for night
- Punching up the image to make it "pop" like sky or water or grass
- Current levels are too low and/or levels are too high
- Mimic chemical processes
- Adding vignette, soft focus, selective focus, glow and diffusion effects
- Isolated and/or replacement color effects
List used from the ColorList group on Yahoo.

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Color Correction: Pendragon

Last year, while working on Pendragon one of my jobs was the color correction. Let me just say that I love doing color correction! Not much can compare to taking an "average" looking shot and turning it into something beautiful. Sometimes it takes a long time and sometimes its just a few tweaks.

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I'm planning to write an article for my blog about the process and some step-by-steps of the color correction process for Pendragon using Apple Color, but that is still in the works. For now, I've put together a 4 minute video of before-&-afters from Pendragon. You can view it here on my website.