#hotband

so here's a little side by side of how the colouring looks, obviously it's not perfect and some detail gets lost in the process unfortunately

and I'm certainly not an expert and there was no real reason to be doing this, it was kind of mainly for practice too tbh 🤷‍♂️ but like idk that whole effect on that video looks really nice in the other parts of it but this section of it just felt a little. much. 😭 in my opinion kinda. 😭 like they're standing in that dirty ass empty pool too and everything is DIM and GREEN and it kinda just looks,,, moldy as hell 😭

moldband... guh. anywayyy this took a LOOOOOOT of keying out and adjusting oml 🤦‍♂️

and yeah a little bit of the shadows kinda got eaten up in the process but the problem with that is the both the hue (colour) range and luminosity (shade) range in the original was so low, literally as I said so dim and green that while trying to get the colours to more or less go back where they came from, one ends up kind of divorcing a lot of colours that had become married in that process? 😭

and because everything was so so dim but also faded??? (all the dark colours were so washed out :/) but also really harsh???? 😭, when I tried to make it a bit lighter some of the shadows got eaten ig 🥀 and yeah I tried getting rid of that evil vignette a little bit bc genuinely that sh*t was too much 😭🙏 (you can kind of see that in the last pair of photos on jonttu and aarni who are at the edges of the frame for example) and unfortunately there wasn't enough light for highlights much 😔 at least my version looks more like a cool cloudy day and not a warmly lit sunny one which has forcibly been made dark and green which is what it actually was 💀

oh well 🤷‍♂️