Color Grading 2000 vs 2024.
255 sats \ 2 comments \ @zuspotirko 3 Jul Photography
Example The Gladiator.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GRZ6B2DWAAAGO1e?format=jpg&name=mediumhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/GRZ6B2paMAA3kyq?format=jpg&name=small
IMO there are 2 big reasons why color grading changed this way:
  1. Movie studios want customers to go to the cinema. Not only do they make more money there, it also makes you more likely to get attached to the franchise (Benjamin-Franklin-Effect). The high contrast scene looks good on both your tv and the cinema - the low contrast has an advantage in theater projectors
  2. Vanity. People just look better without harsh shadows. I'm personally guilty of this as well as a photographer. Probably most of you gravitate to reason 1 but don't underestimate this one
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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @Enemy_of_the_state 3 Jul
Yeah the low contrast looks like a studio shoot vs outdoors
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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 3 Jul
Interesting...people do look better without harsh shadow. Could it also be change of atmospheric control? Using more resources to film within studio space rather than take what weather permits?
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