ABSTRACT
The creation of “looks” is probably why some colorists make as much as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and drive around in Lamborghinis. Festa describes his Brazilian Silver look: “a very desaturated, silvery look that softens the midtones a bit, low saturation. An aggressive, contemporary, cross between a bleach bypass and a hi-con black and white look”. Many of the highly desired looks that colorists are asked to do actually mimic chemical film processes. The cross-processed images provide an excellent resource for an important tutorial exercise. One of the common requests to colorists is to give an image a look from a popular movie, TV show, or music video. Obviously, for the colorist, this requires a fairly decent command of popular culture and a decent color memory. One of the images that definitely called out for a tough, gritty look was the SWAT team storming out of the truck from Chasing Ghosts.
