Color Correction question

arcorob wrote on 9/2/2004, 8:24 AM
Hello
Through help from tutorials such as BillyBoys and from the book I recently purchased, my color correction has become 100% better and easier to do. It is still however, to me, more of an art than a science as trying to follow a by the numbers approach is leading me to fits !

With that said on to the question. I use multi-cams and am constantly having to color match. This is now MUCH MUCH better than before but I still run into issues. EXample,

Two camera angles of a wedding toast, wedding party in foreground, bride groom, best man, maid of honor in back. I switch angle and I have accurately matched skin tone, background, ceiling, flowers on table, they really all look good except ! The bridesmaids purple blue dresses. In one clip, it is a nice vibrant bluish puple that without a doubt is purple. in the other, I cannot get it past a "greyish lavender, washed out color' without overdriving the colors, in which case it may match in the dress but everyone in that clip looks like they will have a stroke because now the colors dont match.

What am I missing here. I have applied color curves, corrector, color balance, etc...and cannot get that one thing. I will say that it is from two slightly different sony cams and one always produces much deeper vibrant colors than the other which tends to be great in low light but sort of washes on the color.

Help...And thanks

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 9/2/2004, 8:39 AM
It might be that you CAN'T perfectly match due to incident angle of lighting. Or due to how much color is actually in the shot. You could likely set up a series of secondary correction, but if you push too hard, you'll get artifacting.

arcorob wrote on 9/2/2004, 10:38 AM
That is sort of the answer I wanted to hear. I just wanted to be sure unless I did more than would be worth it, that it might just be that they will never be 100% matched.

Actually if I can find a way to post two snapshots of them , I will ...I think they are the closest I have ever gotten my multi camera shots. And thank you SPOT , have seen your instruction / newletter also and its great.