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Shootsmarter Color Controls

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For creating professional grade images onto film and digital capture.

In this pro-level, 51 minute DVD video you can see first hand how to:

- Command neutral, warmer or cooler skin tone reproduction,
- Take the mystery out of color meters.
- Perfectly correct out the green shift from fluorescent lights,
- Adjust the color temperature of your strobes within 50K,
- Use CT and CC filters and gels like a pro,
- Color temp control and white balancing for DIGITAL CAPTURE.
- Adding color corrected strobe into your color correced scene.
- And plenty more!

Either on film or digital capture, Will Crockett is widely considered a master of lighting control from his international seminar tours sponsored by Fujifilm, Bogen, and Chimera and by his expert testing, consulting and product testing for Fujifilm, Gossen, and Sekonic.
Here's what's inside this DVD title...

Chapter 1 - INTRO:
A brief look at what's ahead.

 

Chapter 2- Controlling Color Temperature:
What is CT? Basic tools – gels, filters, color meters, trans film.

 

Chapter 3- Neutral Color Temperature:
Exploring NRP’s (Neutral Rendering Points).
White balancing digital capture for neutral tones.

Chapter 4- Using Filters:
Filter types and what they can do for you.
Plugging Filter Comps into your flashmeter.
 

Chapter 5- Using Gels:
Gel types. Calculated vs actual CT shifts. CC Gels and CT gels, what's the difference?
Examples of installing gels into softboxes, parabolics, and even the Elinchrom Octa.

 

Chapter 6- Using Gel Strips:
How to adjust your light sources color temperature in 50K and 100K increments.

Chapter 7- Measuring Color Temperature:
Using color meters to measure. CT and CC values.
Will's ADD HALF RULE for CC values.
How diffusion lowers CT.
Strobe CT shifts with power settings and tube age.
 

Chapter 8- Filters and Gels on Assignment:
See a magazine cover shoot that needs to blend strobe with a fluorescent light fixture. Will uses a color meter to find the correct filtration for the fluorescent source, then shows you how to blend strobe into the scene. Compare the final image shot on transparency film with the same image shot on small format digital capture, then color negative film, and finally the fiished cover of the magazine.

 

Chapter 9- Color Control Secrets:
When to trust your color meter, and when to think twice.
NEVER TRUST THE POLAROID.
Let your color meter do the math!