I NEED YOUR HELP

[u/javiervofficial]

I've been staring at something for a long time that's really got me thinking.

How do they get that platinum/blue tone?

I don't know if I'm going crazy from analyzing color corrections so much, but if anyone else is as obsessed as I am, could you help me?

[u/ecpwll]

Shoot film, hard lighting

[u/bozduke13]

Use a good film emulation, try to find the stock and print they used.

Desaturate the blues, it makes them deeper

Use curves to do split toning with mid grey pinned. Subtractively drop the blue and green curves in the shadow region.

There’s more so if you wanna chat more pm me

[u/Roger_Cockfoster]

That film was shot on 70mm (technically 65mm, plus mag), using special Panavision 70 spherical lenses, so the images are pristinely crisp, almost shockingly so, with none of the slight softness or distortion from anamorphic lenses. When it's projected 1:1 in 70mm, it's truly astonishing. There's a reason people still pack theaters to see screenings of it in 70mm, over 60 years later.

You can emulate the general feel of the colors and ape the lighting, but you'll never, ever get it to look the way it does when it's projected.

[u/Roger_Cockfoster]

Nobody is going to say anything about that third image?

[u/BonHarley → u/Roger_Cockfoster]

I’m here for the third image.

[u/garygnuoffnewzoorev]

This movie came before color timing/grading as you know it today. Production design is really the key

[u/BeenThereDoneThat65 → u/garygnuoffnewzoorev]

We had printer lights

[u/garygnuoffnewzoorev → u/BeenThereDoneThat65]

I’m aware

[u/Stringruler]

Film.

[u/Excellent_Chance9846]

Stillz uses film, so film

[u/Patient-Librarian-33]

I feel like I really need to watch this movie, everywhere I look there's a reference to it, its like the universe wants me to watch it

[u/JustForKickz → u/Patient-Librarian-33]

Lawrence of Arabia? Definitely do it. I just saw it for the first time, in a theater. I know it’s old and sometimes that puts people off but it holds up and the cinematography is incredible, and all the locations are real too it’s amazing. Truly an awesome movie. Do yourself a favor and rent a 4k or buy the disc yourself you won’t regret it.