Warm Looks: Yellow Warmth Vs Red Warmth (which are you?)

Key comment was quite early … the difficulty of going warm yellow without pushing greens into uncomfortable places. Amber’s just easier, isn’t it? But one shouldn’t put all one’s eggs in one small bucket. Very useful vid.

Using the 3 and . Printer light keys make it easy to get pure yellow.

Thanks Sir!

I felt a bit guilty that I discount yellow warms without thinking about them in grades and thought it would be a fun share!

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Very good point! The Resolve panel that I use only actually has Master / Red / Green / Blue so I’m used to doing it that way

Great video. When I client asks me to go warm, I actually tend to err yellow as opposed to orange/red. There’s something about that Soderbergh “straw” color (especially as seen in Magic Mike) that I really dig. But it is tough…always skating on thin ice being so close to green. And the client doesn’t usually go for it…just the other day I got something bounced back with a comment that it was “overall too yellow.” It can be tough when skin tones get involved, particularly in the commercial world.

You make some great points!! I notice I seem to lean towards amber / orange gold warmth as opposed to yellow. It does get overbearing quickly (especially with skin) but that example was very classy & sophisticated looking. Got some new ideas to experiment with. Thanks Dan!!

Do you ever have any issues with yellow tones making the grass / foliage look less vibrant ??

Great insight! I find using the blue/red curves offer a little finer “push/pull” control, to use your term. I can throw that desired yellow in the highlights / higher midtones by lowering the blue curve, but keep the skin and shadowier bits where I want them with the red curve. Tint/Temperature controls are surprisingly good too – the terms are misleading IMO since an overall “tint” or wash is the last thing I want…but the tint/temp sliders offer some pretty subtle pushes if used sparingly.

Yeah. I find my grass/foliage can suffer at the expense of warm looks and especially skintone adjustments, since I’m always trying to suck the green out of those areas. Likewise anytime there’s a film LUT involved…grass tends to go yellow. I usually resort to secondary/highlight adjustment for that.

Dan, what a lovely music video! Such great example when story, edit, grade and music complement each other and work well together.
I love it, great work!

I’m gonna throw a controversial point into the discussion. Particularly looking at the John Lewis ad, I notice that the yellow light on Buster (the boxer) is coming from the outside street lamps that light up the garden scene. Of course these days UK street lamps are either sodium-orange or resemble that greenish light coming off domestic energy-saving light bulbs. No, I’m not a fan of those bulbs, who is? But I wonder if Soret (and van Gelder) made the decision to use this to create a more realistic feel to the story – move away from the usual cheesy candle-light x-mas cozyness? Also maybe, subconsciously, we are all getting more
used to this yellowy-greenish light in comparison to old school tungsten – if we like it or not!?

so good