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.
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.
