Welcome to Advanced Color Science

For decades, we were able to point a camera at a scene, press the shutter, or roll on a take — and get a nuanced image. In the digital era, we’ve forgotten that one of the things that made those images special was the engineering behind crafting and tuning the rendition of colors and tones. With this ever expanding series of lessons, I want to bring that back.

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A Growing Series Of Lessons on Film Profiling & Advanced Color Science

Introduction

The color pipeline is what brings your image from the raw capture of the sensor to the final image you see on a display, and the way the colors and tones are rendered by the color pipeline is what defines the look of an image.

Film Profiling Overview

In order to create an accurate profile/emulation of a film stock we need to capture a lot of colors (stimuli) with a digital camera and the film stock we want to emulate, side by side under the same exact conditions all across the exposure range. The scope is to have an accurate comparison of how the digital sensor and the film sensor respond to light

Shooting the Charts Lesson (Film Profiling)

This is where it all starts, the data gathering process. This is the first step when profiling a film stock. It might seam trivial but there are many aspects to keep in mind to achieve accurate results In this lesson you’ll learn everything there is to know when it comes to shooting charts.

Matching Digital to Film

This is the core of the profiling process. In this lesson I’m going to show you how to automate and perform the profiling process matching digital to film, so that you can then create profiles of your favorite film stocks

Film Scanning

In this lesson I’m going to show you how to get professional results from a Dslr scanning set up and how to prepare the scanned charts for profiling

Grain profiling and compositing

In this lesson I’m going to walk you through you some advanced workflows to create physically accurate grain assets and how to composite them onto images. The resulting grain will be organic and it will feel like it part of the image and not just a layer on top