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

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Creating an early morning look

Creating an early morning look

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

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Creating an early morning look

It's quite common that you'll actually need to change the time of day to be a different time that you actually shot your footage shot. There are a number of core concepts involved when you're changing the time of day. But the key to interpreting colors to great shots for certain times of day is observation. You can see for yourself, if you watch how the light changes from before dawn til after daybreak. Or from midday to into the afternoon, or even at night just before sunset and after sunset. It's very useful to be able to stand outside and just physically watch how the colors are changing. What the shadows are doing, how dark they are how bright they are. And it's this method of observation that will really help you when you are doing color correction for different times of day. This shot was filmed late morning towards lunch time. And so obviously doesn't look like the early morning. So what corrections can we add to this to make it seem like early morning? Let's open up the Looks…

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