• Lighting Design

  Skin tone bathed in silver

  Posted by Rich Rosen on December 5, 2005 at 10:00 pm

  I’ve seen some documentaries where there is a noticeable silver look to skin tone even on African Americans. I love the look and am starting a doc about a dark-skinned family.

  Spike Lee used it on everyone interviewed for a doc about Jim Brown.

  How is that achieved? Is it as simple as a silver reflector? Thanks

  Todd Gillespie replied 20 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Todd Gillespie

  December 6, 2005 at 6:51 pm

  Hi Rich,
  I don’t think I’ve seen these movies, but are you talking about a ‘bleach bypass’ look?
  Minority Report, same look?

  If so, then…well it’s bleach bypass in the film development stage. There’s some plug-ins that can simulate this, but it’s a film processing effect.
  It’s probably the correct effect, since Spike Lee does most of his fx in the camera.

  FWIW

  Todd at UCSB
  Television Production

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