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How to Create Better Image Contrast While Color Grading (Part 3)

Welcome to the final part of the Creating Better Contrast series. As we’ve discussed throughout this three-part series (Part 1 and Part 2) contrast manipulation is the fundamental building block of color grading, and it underpins virtually everything we do. Now that we’ve explored how we can create better tonal contrast and color contrast, we’re going to focus on three principles for creating better spatial contrast using Power Windows inside Davinci Resolve. Let's dive in. Grading Reductively Power Windows belong to a category of grading adjustments we call secondaries, and, logically enough, they should be tackled only after we set our primaries—namely exposure, contrast, and color temperature. If these primaries are set properly, this means the important things in our frame should already appear as we want them to. So, if we want to create more spatial contrast between our subject and their environment, we’re better off knocking things down around them than building up their exposure or contrast. Read More...

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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 12 May, 2021

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