Hello everyone, hope you had a great weekend? I really appreciate everyone who called, sent texts or messages through social media, the gifts, the prayers and the love on my birthday 9/9. May God bless you real good. I felt loved and appreciated. People will celebrate your greatness in Jesus name. Amen.
I have finally finished the fire dancer story, I shortened some things to make it end on time. It is going to be a very big project which will be shot in United States if God wills. It will be written comprehensively as a novel which will be published if God wills before Easter next year tentatively. If I feel led to start another story I may start later but nothing like that for now.
The pictures below comprise a scope (waveform and vector scope), I, Me and Myself. The first two was treated with Adobe raw while the last one was not treated at all. These are raw files from a movie produced by Kehinde Ajetunmobi in United States titled "Closed Chapter", watch out for the trailer next week. There is this other movie titled The Strong Room where the prof Doyin Hassan danced to Bata, the two trailers are coming this weekend.
Color grading starts from the ability to study and understand the scopes, that was not where I started my learning and I messed up. You need to understand those scopes because they interpret the picture you are about to work on. There are four different types of scopes and I have mentioned two, the other two are RGB parade and histogram.
Waveform can be of help when you want to interpret highlights, shadows and midtones. Waveform is waveform irrespective of whatever application. The upper part of the waveform shows you the highlight, the midtone is the middle while the lower part determines the shadow. The best way to understand it is for you to picture that waveform on your video, the rectangular shape represent the rectangular shape of your video. If the upper part contains more information beyond the topmost line then you have a bad picture, it is blown out, or there is a part of the picture that is too bright. If this occurs, and you are lucky you shot raw, just bring it back in post by reducing the exposure but if not raw then you can bring down your gain a little. If the middle has more information, then that is okay, if the information on the lower part goes beyond the last line then there is a part of your image that is too dark.
The image you are working on and what you intend to achieve with it is very important. You can switch the waveform to give you color or monochrome. If you look at this waveform, it does have enough information on the midtone but lesser on the highlight and shadow. You may have an image that requires the waveform to have info on the shadow part alone, this is not absolutely wrong, because it depends on your picture and your intention.
Vector scope shows us the amount of saturation on the picture, it shows you what part of the image is well saturated, what color is more saturated than the rest. This circle on the right side has magenta, cyan, blue, yelow, red, green. Again this also depends on what picture you are working on. Alomst all editing software has what we call color wheel for color correction. This color wheel is a replica of vector scope, if you have more info in between the magenta and red, you can use the color wheel of gamma, pull it towards the opposite direction which is blue and cyan in this case, then you will see the changes immediately.
I treated those two pictures, the last one was not like I have said earlier. This is from the same shot but I brought out different looks from them, that's one of those things you can do with color grading. You can use any software to color grade so long as it has color scopes to monitor what you are doing. You also need to have a well calibrated monitor, otherwise you will finish the job before you discover that you have spoilt it.
I will continue from here next week. Happy holidays to Nigerians and my people in the Islamic dominated parliament countries, happy working day to my people in the freer world.
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