Color management is about carrying out an image pipeline with technical transformations to bring the color space of a camera into the color space of a display.
In this blog post, I will also show you how to first transcode files into an edit-friendly codec. From and edit-unfriendly codec into an edit-friendly codec.
This site is dedicated to documenting films printed on stocks other than Kodak 2383. While Kodak 2383 is widely used in the industry, some films have chosen alternative print stocks. This list highlights such films, along with links to their IMDb pages for additional details.
It can be difficult to objectively judge the quality of a LUT being provided when applied to real-life footage. For me personally, I think the easiest way to analyze a LUT is using a Test Chart.
Halation is a characteristic of celluloid film when a bright light bounces back a few times exposing the film a second time only affecting the red layer (and a bit of the green layer) of the film resulting in a orange glow.
In this blog post, I show you how to apply a „Kodak 2383 D55“ LUT to your footage. Furthermore, I share my thoughts about other elements of film like Halation, Gate Weave, Grain, Flicker, Film Damage and more.
“The Lighthouse” was shot on Kodak’s Eastman Double-X black-and-white 5222 film stock with a Panavision Millennium XL2 and 1930s-’40s Baltar lenses. Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke also used custom filters that emulated early-1900s orthochromatic stock, which was sensitive to ultraviolet, blue and green light, but not red. So skin tones appear way darker.
With this website, I want to reveal the discrepancy between different approaches and hopefully enrich the ongoing discussion about it with my own approach.
