From the course: Color Correction: Color Grading for Locations and Times of Day

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Creating an evening look

Creating an evening look

From the course: Color Correction: Color Grading for Locations and Times of Day

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Creating an evening look

Technically, there's not a lot of difference between the sort of light you get early evening after sunset to the sort of light you get early morning just before sunrise. We seem to have a more romantic connection to early evening and sunset, though. Maybe that's because, most of the time, we're still asleep before the sun rises. But the corrections for both are remarkably similar. Here is the Venice clip of the gondola. And let's launch the looks builder and add a 3-Way corrector, and reduce down the ambient light using the Midtone corrector. And then, also push the light towards blue because, in the early evening, just like in the early morning, the light is much bluer. We can also bring down the highlights slightly because the highlight are a little less bright. And, instantly, you've got a much more convincing scene. Here it is, before and after. This is a much later time in the day. (SOUND) A finishing touch to this is to desaturate the color slightly because the less light we…

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