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Regarding saturation, depending on the level of illumination, it is possible the color-responsive cones of your eyes were responding less, although this usually happens at lesser illuminations than overcast daylight.
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Skin blemishes are more noticeable, for instance. I might even push the color temp higher by adding even more CTB to an HMI (if I can afford the loss in light.) With video, I might white balance through some amount of CTO to achieve similar effects.Īnother effect of high color temp is the shifting of details resulting from cool hues becoming subdued and warm hues more pronounced. To recreate this shift in spectrum, I will usually throw various amounts of CTB over a tungsten source (or start with an HMI) to achieve similar effects. This might be interpreted as a "desaturation" since we are losing a lot of the color we are accustomed to seeing on sunny days and with lower-temp sources. because there is really a lot more blue in the source, cooler hues prevail over warmer. Your eyes compensate for the "white" and.
The most significant chroma effect you may be observing on your overcast day is the washing out of warm colors by the high color temp. I'll address the issue of color from my experience. Some great ideas re: diffusion from everyone. Is the gray look I'm perceiving simply my eyes not being able to pick up enough light and "underexposing" (I do think a big part of re-creating this overcast, interior look would be underexposure and softness)? There did seem to be a slight blue tinge to the light I was observing this morning (but not nearly as much blue as you see affected in the typical Hollywood film).ĭoes anyone know what is going on in terms of the color spectrum when early morning, ambient skylight is filtered through/bounced by gray skies? What might have been producing the quality of the grayish, desaturated colors I was observing? Could one apply this color theory to replicating the effect on motion picture film? How might I go about getting this kind of "gray" color cast if I wanted to replicate this look on film? For if I put a gray gel in front of a light isn't this basically going to act as an ND?
There was a very gray, overcast sky this morning (I'm in the Midwestern U.S.) and the way this light came through the window made the room I was in look incredible.