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  B/W grading

  Posted by Stig Olsen on October 16, 2013 at 9:42 pm

  Hi,

  Im about to grade a B/W underwear commercial, shot on a grey background on old russian Baltar optics. Red Epic.
  Do you guys have any good advices about grading this kind of black and white footage?

  Any common looks?

  Stig

  Joakim Ziegler replied 12 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Paul Provost

  October 17, 2013 at 2:58 am

  Have you tried rgb mixer in monochrome?

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  Stig Olsen

  October 17, 2013 at 9:24 am

  Hi,

  I know how to use the RGB mixer and I will apply a LUT for deeper blacks.
  Is there any way to get the grey look more like silver?

  Stig
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  Margus Voll

  October 19, 2013 at 10:36 pm

  What makes up silver is the way it reflects.

  I bet you will not get that in grading that simply.

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  Joakim Ziegler

  October 22, 2013 at 4:18 am

  Don’t use a LUT, work with curves. The trick to getting a “silvery look” is also in using curves. You’ll have much finer control over where to apply different contrast gradients, which is essential to bringing out detail.

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  Joakim Ziegler – Postproduction Supervisor

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