Color

Last night I successfully acomplished my goal of getting my latest video to the final stage of editing, which was color-grading and sound. 

I always forget how much I enjoy the color-grading process of filmmaking. You get to see the final potential of your vision, because everything before it just looks dry, flat and inconsistent. It is also a nerve recking process because you are constantly turning your grade-filter on-off wondering, "too much, too little, or am I just making this look worse". Not to mention the color of an image will look drastically different per the color of paint on the wall behind your monitor, the time of day, size/kind of display your looking at and exct... 

It's not easy, but it's a fun challenge and a skill that helps you tell your story. 

Here is a before & after of my current project:

Today started off with 20-minutes of yoga. I may have pushed some of my cobra and upward-dog poses a little too hard, and left me with a slight upper back strain. But that pain has already faded and I can easily make an adjustment to avoid re-agitating that. 

Tonight I'm going to take my Dad and Logan out for dinner, and then end the evening with a HBO double-bill of "Game of Theones", and "True Detective".