An interesting find for sure! However, I must say that in all honesty I prefer the graded shot. It simply looks more “movie-ish” to me, which is suppose what many people’s minds subconsiously look for.

I like the teal color in movies too, but I think that this specific scene is over-done.

In your grading I don’t like the skin tones. For some reason they do not fit in the lighting of the scene, at least in my eyes. In the theater’s grading I like the homogeneity in colors and lighting they achieved.

I think the 3 are cool, just different approaches..

Personally, I usually find myself wanting to get rid of color-casting, not add it as this colorist apparently did. Not sure what the thinking was to do this, but I’m apparently not wired that way.

Thanks again for the opportunity to discuss grading.

Personally, I like the original ungraded shot the best.

If I had to pick from one of the two graded results I’d pick Eugenia’s. But it makes the two actor’s skin look Asian. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

I mean why have the actor wear a brown jacket if you two are going to grade it right out of the picture? Why do you want to grade things so that they look unnatural? I mean it works great for movies like O’Brother Where Art Thou. But this is clearly not one of those movies that needs strange grading.

Thanks,
Daren

I like the original the best also. Here is my take on it:

http://treskate.com/images/grade.jpg

Sorry, forgot the link.

Lee, I like it!

I like the original ungraded shot. As a photographer, I think it looks a lot more natural and isn’t out of line with the style of the movie. Lee’s above is also pretty good, bumping up the saturation and contrast works well IMHO.