[Tig] crushing blacks and whites in film

[bart.verraest@pandora.be]

Hi Tim,

Cinespace is guiding us through this.
We have a customised LUT for the lab and the Kodak premier print stock.
It still seems to be difficult to avoid a color cast anyway, a test will make that clear indeed.

Thanx,

Bart
>----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
>Van: Tim Stipan [mailto:stipantim at yahoo.com]
>Verzonden: woensdag, november 7, 2007 03:19 PM
>Aan: bart.verraest at pandora.be, tig at tig.colorist.org
>Onderwerp: Re: [Tig] crushing blacks and whites in film
>
>Hi Bart,
>
>What print stock are you going to? 
>
>Fugi, Kodak Vision, Premiere? 
>
>You need to do a filmout test. Take a couple of
>scenes, 30-60 seconds and film it out to the
>productions chosen stock (hope your LUT is emulating
>the stock!!) 
>
>Lots of people crush blacks and blowout whites but
>they have tested this look before doing an entire
>feature that way!
>
>
>Best of luck!
>
>Tim
>
>--- "bart.verraest at pandora.be"
><bart.verraest at telenet.be> wrote:
>
>> Thanks to Assimilate Inc. for supporting the TIG.
>>  ====
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am interested in hearing from film colorists out
>> there how far they go when they crush their whites
>> and blacks to achieve a certain look in film and if
>> anybody has had any bad surprises when doing so. I
>> am working on a feature film in Dublin called
>> "Kisses" by Lance Daly using Assimilate Scratch, an
>> ecinema monitor and Cinespace for the grading. We
>> need to grade some color shots to B/W and I would
>> like to crush the blacks and whites to achieve a
>> look that I used to create as a B/W photographer.
>> 
>> Grateful for any tips,
>> 
>> Bart Verraest
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> No personal abuse; absolutely no advertising or
>> marketing on the main TIG mailinglist.  Emergency
>> tig contact address is rob (at) calarts.edu
>> Tig mailing list
>> Tig at tig.colorist.org
>> http://tig.colorist.org/mailman/listinfo/tig
>> 
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
>http://mail.yahoo.com 
>
>