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Post #342223

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Laserschwert
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Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Edit Suggestions
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Date created
15-Jan-2009, 8:56 AM
Johnny Ringo said:

also be mindful that you are beginning to lose detail, especially in the brighter areas. The high contrast and low saturation just look out of place here.

I've read the "losing detail"-argument regarding my color-correction before, and I dare to disagree. The movie itself is already boosted in the highlights, but grading pushed them down a bit again. This doesn't change the fact that those areas are already (nearly) over-exposed, but grading changed those pure-whites into some yellow/orange tones, and not white anymore. As I'm taking out that ugly color-tinting (which turns the yellowish highlights into greys), there's no reason to not expand the luminance to the full spectrum again, thus pushing the brightest whites to the maximum again.

I'm pretty sure that my correction makes the movie look more like when it was shot (which can be seen in some of the first teasers, which weren't color-graded as strongly as the final movie). Furthermore the criticised "high contrast and low saturation" is - in my opinion - the look that was established by the first three films, and as we're aiming for consistency with those, I think this is the right way to go. (By the way, I didn't desaturate the whole image, but mainly the greens, as they were obviously boosted)