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High black and white contrast Post production
hi!
I’m trying to make a black and white video that has a HIGH contrast ratio. My desired effect would be something like a photogram or this photo by Man Ray
How do i do this? I’m using a canon 60d and adobe premiere pro cs6 -
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Things to bear in mind when trying to emulate Man Ray – both film grain and film artifacting (scratches used creatively, etc.), odd lighting setups – often lit from below, double exposures (you can use masked images in one of the many blending modes), odd blurred and smeared effects as well. Some of his Photogram effects can be achieved by using Invert in the Effect/Channel menu. If you’re going for the film grain, bear in mind that with real film, the silver crystals are very random, often appearing bunched, depending on how the print was done, and whether dodging was applied. You could use both masks, as well as still images of film grain and noise, which you can find with a simple search for Film Noise. You can buy film noise overlays from Shutterstock and Artbeats, as well as find many free ones on the web. Also search on Film Damage, to find stuff like this free overlay on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3vIBi4HyV0
You may also want to use still versions of the noise, rather than animated ones, since Man Ray’s work, needless to say, may have implied motion, but did not contain any.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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thank you so much!
I definitely bear all these things in mind 🙂 -
There’s a terrific training video on Cow about b&W conversion. Basically use ‘calculations’ and assign the red and maybe blue channels, even use them ‘multiplied’.
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