Leandro Marini Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Hi all, Part 1 of my series on shooting and grading RED was more sucsessful than expected, lots of positive feedback. Keep the questions coming. Part 2 is up and it focuses on "Hitting the sweet spot in the negative" : localheropost.squarespace.com - Leandro Marini DI Producer Local Hero Post localheropost.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morten forsberg Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 hey, nice blog and interesting sample images. id like to discuss the notion of "where the skintones live". it seems to me that keeping the skintones around 30 on the waveform (if you want them to read normally exposed in the end) is somehow contradictory to the ETTR rule of thumb. If we imagine a scene with normal contrast safe within the range of the camera, and with no really bright highlights, (for example the scene with the girl at her desk without the bright spots of the pratical lamps) then the ETTR technique would place the skintones a fair bit higher on the waveform Ive never really liked the idea that I should overexpose for a "thick" waveform if I intend the scene to look normal or dark in the end, and this blog is the first time I read any advise (at least from postproduction people) that agrees with this. does anyone have any thoughts about this, or have experienced the "plastic looking" skintones from overexposing on the Red? --- Morten Forsberg Dop www.mortenforsberg.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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