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The secret to beauty: Contrast

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The secret to beauty: Contrast

- [Narrator] In this movie we're going to be talking about two different kinds of contrast. Luminance contrast, which is what most people mean when they refer to contrast and also color contrast. Now, luminance contrast is kind of like, you know, your basic garden variety contrast, the difference between light and dark. And we looked at this in the cinematography course but it's very pleasing to the eye to see edges where dark and light areas meet. We saw that in this scene from the cinematography course. in this masterful painting, all over the place. Now most cameras these days shoot with pretty low contrast or in other words, flat and some filmmakers like that flat washed out look. It goes also without saying that you could add too much contrast to image and this look will likely be forever associated with the early 2000s when it first became possible to create looks like this. Typically too much contrast is to be avoided…

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