Color correction or shadow correction any feedback

[Brett Howe]

Hi Mark

You’ve got a challenge on your hands. It reminds me of a saying

” You can’t polish a turd ”

My motto has always been ” Yes, but you can cover it in chrome”

You can’t get back detail lost due to over, and under exposure. I suggest correcting it the best u can, then add some effects, maybe a soft black border and a really great opener 🙂

If all else fails, a discount for the client!

Put this one down to experience, if you shot it yourself; don’t use the guy again, if it was shot for you 🙂 (or at least beat him around the head for a couple of hours with his camera 🙂 )

Cheers

Brett

[Mark Perez]

Thanks for the feedback, and lucky me I did not shoot it, in fact when the client brought it to me, they had not even seen it before, they were a little disappointed whit the look. I’ll do as suggested.

thanks
mark

[Jim Arcon]

Wow, that’s a tough one because you’ve got both over-eposure (on the right) and under-exposure (audience.) The over-exposure is so severe that there doesn’t seem to be much detail.

I don’t know if you could ever make it great, but you could twiddle with the levels controls in PPro a bit to tweak this.

I brought it into AfterEffects, duplicated the layer several times, then changed the upper layer transfer-mode to ‘multiply.’ that put a bit of the detail back. A bit of fiddling with the curves also helped.

To complete the task, you’d need to mask the audience, then maybe raise the level of that area just a little. You could also build a mask for the right or left side of the frame and tweak each separately.

Jim

[Lkj]

Burn it further, desaturate your highlights and shadows. Give it a slight glow. Charge the client extra for enhancing their material with a trendy bleach bypass technique. I’m only half kidding.