Welcome to r/HarryPotter, the place where fans from around the world can meet and discuss everything in the Harry Potter universe! Be sorted, earn house points, debate which actor portrayed Dumbledore the best and finally get some closure for your Post. Harry Potter Lightroom Editing In this Lightroom editing tutorial I'm breaking down how to create the dark and moody color grading style from the Harry Potter films. If you're familiar with these films, the color palette seems to get darker and cooler as the series goes on.
Color grading extraordinaire Peter Doyle spoke with Filmtalkz last year about his work on the Harry Potter series and The Lord of the Rings. Due to the sheer scale of these films, Doyle established a 'pop up' DI facility for Warner Brothers for Harry Potter so that they could grade as they filmed. In the Mood for Love (2000).
I really enjoyed the spooky cinematography and magical color palette of these films, and wanted to recreate these tones in my own photos. You're a [Lightroom] Wizard Harry! This makes all the scenes with Ron, Hermione, and Harry feel visceral and meaningful, while simultaneously helping develop their arcs as individual characters, rather than the Columbus approach of them being the Harry Potter sideshow, existing simply to further the plot along. I recently rewatched the series and the 6th one really stood out as having fantastic cinematography but awful color grading.
Tries a bit too hard to be artistic in that regard, I guess it sort of works as more of a tone piece? It's interesting to say the least lmao. Your fix looks much better, what'd you use to color it? An advice to HBO and the creators, please keep the bright color grading of the first two films. You can make the Series dark without sacrificing on the color pallet (eg COS film) and please don't ever do HBP and House of Dragons level of dark scenes ever.
Find the distinct color palettes of each Hogwarts house and the corresponding hex codes, a valuable resource for parties, artwork or websites. To finish off Potter week at fxguide (and part of a new series talking to the world's greatest colorists), Mike Seymour has a frank discussion with Peter Doyle, Senior Supervising Colorist, about Harry Potter 7: Part 2. Mike had spoken to Peter in 2009 about his work on the Potter series, and it was one of our most popular fxpodcasts.
This time Peter explains how he creatively created key. Learn how to turn your raw photos into enchanting Harry Potter-inspired scenes! This tutorial reveals my simple color grading tips and tricks for a warm.