Best ambiant lighting for color correction

[Mark Raudonis]

Quick answer: Neutral grey with “Daylight” flourescent indirect lighting.

Long answer: Google “Best ambiant lighting for color correction” and you’ll get a ton of hits. Do your homework.

Mark

[Michael Gissing]

Actually you get this when you Google “Best ambiant lighting for color correction” you get-
Did you mean “Best ambient lighting for color correction”?
followed by a tip saying don’t use quotes.

This link may actually be helpful
https://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=80536

[Jack Fox]

What is the best way to accomplish this, CIE D65 florescent, metal halide? Is the best position overhead fixtures, tract lighting? Can recommend a product?

jmf

[Arnie Schlissel]

The book “Color Correction for Digital Video” has a chapter on design & lighting for color correction & editing suites. I’d expect any similar book to have some brief mention of this as well.

Arnie
Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
https://www.arniepix.com/blog

[Uli Plank]

Yes, definitely get that book by Hullfish and Fowler (dmp, I think, check at http://www.dv.com). I’ve learned a lot more from it than only designing the suite.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Jhaughey]

When we were setting up our grading suite we had the guys from Silicon Color come round to check it out…
they said it was great, but one problem, the paint should be “18% grey”, so I had to paint the whole thing 18% grey…. its the same colour as Shake and Final Touchs’ backgrounds… makes sense when you see it.
don’t forget a daylight lamp behind your monitor

Joe Haughey
https://www.pogofilms.com