Guest February 2, 2017 Share February 2, 2017 Hi, what are your favourite books/courses on colour theory, and colour's influence on psychology. How much colour theory is a digital colourist expected to know? Link to comment Share on other sites
Abby Bader February 3, 2017 Share February 3, 2017 I agree in @Tom Poole's statement in one of the other threads. "My advice to my assists and people coming up is always the same "Immerse yourself in all things visual - photography, film, art, whatever it is". These are the things that will make you a good colorist, and also allow you to hold conversations with other creatives. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites
Sushil Gangaraju February 3, 2017 Share February 3, 2017 https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/08/17/goethe-theory-of-colours/ - should be worth checking out although it seems that is more a collection of Goethe's esoteric ideas on the subjective experience of color, rather than something based on empirical data 4 Link to comment Share on other sites
Thomas Singh February 5, 2017 Share February 5, 2017 You don't need books to make an image look good. You only need the ability to manipulate the three color channels, density controls and inspiration. Recreate things you see around you and pay attention to light and color. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites
Nicolas Hanson February 6, 2017 Share February 6, 2017 You always got Alexis Van Hurkman's Colour Correction Handbook. Just make sure to buy the latest (2.nd I guess) edition. If you are looking for high end stuff, you got an enormous amount of creative techniques and knowledge behind the premium walls on this site. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites
Guest February 6, 2017 Share February 6, 2017 4 hours ago, Nicolas Hanson said: You always got Alexis Van Hurkman's Colour Correction Handbook. Just make sure to buy the latest (2.nd I guess) edition. If you are looking for high end stuff, you got an enormous amount of creative techniques and knowledge behind the premium walls on this site. Yeah, I am currently reading his Colour Correction Handbook as well as watching his Color Correction training series on Ripple Training. I am getting myself comfortable with DaVinci Resolve. Link to comment Share on other sites
Thomas Singh May 8, 2017 Share May 8, 2017 A list from Lowepost's FB page. Glenn Kennel: "Color and mastering for Digital Cinema" Alexis Van Hurkman's COLOR CORRECTION HANDBOOK David Stump's DIGITAL CINEMATOGRAPHY Scott Arundale's MODERN POST: WORKFLOWS & TECHNIQUES FOR DIGITAL FILMMAKERS The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction, 2nd edition Color Correction for Video, 2nd edition Charles Poynton’s PDFs on gamma correction and perceptual uniformity 3 Link to comment Share on other sites
Nicolas Hanson June 2, 2017 Share June 2, 2017 To continue the list... Digital Video Algorithms and Interfaces by Charles Poynton Circles of Confusion by Alan Roberts Billmeyer and Saltzman's Principles of Color Technology The Elements of Color by Johannes Itten 1 Link to comment Share on other sites
Joseph Owens June 2, 2017 Share June 2, 2017 (edited) There is a companion to Alexis' COLOR CORRECTION HANDBOOK, which is the LOOKBOOK. I have seen Itten's treatise here and there, but although the principles don't change, its kind of dated, like Bauhaus philosophy... and then you might as well read Goethe. "If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna to Die" by Patti Bellantoni is a fun read with lots of input from Deakins BSC among others. Its a no-button-pushing insight into color design. As much about Art Direction as anything. There is a curious little book called "The Colour Eye" produced by BBC Books authored by Robert Cumming and Tom Porter as a print companion to a series produced by Suzanne Davies and Julian Stenhouse with BBC2 (1990). I'd spend some time with https://colormax.org/color-blind-test/ Ishihara... <winky> There are always more publications in development... stay tuned. Would anyone be interested...? I set up an outline about 6 years ago and never followed up on it to do a sort of thought approach -- a board-less mental chess game working through the process of grade, using a Sontag-like no-image essay that subtracted all the knobs, rings, styluses, mice... basically no software involved whatsoever... Edited June 2, 2017 by Joseph Owens added content 1 Link to comment Share on other sites
Guest June 5, 2017 Share June 5, 2017 On 6/2/2017 at 5:41 PM, Joseph Owens said: Would anyone be interested...? I set up an outline about 6 years ago and never followed up on it to do a sort of thought approach -- a board-less mental chess game working through the process of grade, using a Sontag-like no-image essay that subtracted all the knobs, rings, styluses, mice... basically no software involved whatsoever... Thanks ^^ could you elaborate what you mean by this part? I don't fully understand. Link to comment Share on other sites
Joseph Owens June 12, 2017 Share June 12, 2017 There were a number of book ideas in play... this was a direction I had that would separate the activity of creating a grade away from the standard approach of "how to work the software" to achieve it -- no knobs, balls, effects... how to think your way into the scene, establish the stage, then maintain it. Not "I am a Camera"... "I am a Colorist" :-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites
Emily Haine June 30, 2017 Share June 30, 2017 On 6/2/2017 at 6:41 PM, Joseph Owens said: Would anyone be interested...? I set up an outline about 6 years ago and never followed up on it to do a sort of thought approach -- a board-less mental chess game working through the process of grade, using a Sontag-like no-image essay that subtracted all the knobs, rings, styluses, mice... basically no software involved whatsoever... Joseph, it would be interesting to hear more about this project? Link to comment Share on other sites
