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Colorist Extols Virtues of Using HDR on Netflix’s Marvel Shows
Senior Silicon Valley Correspondent
Janko Roettgers
@jank0
MARCH 30, 2017 | 10:45AM PT
Tony D’Amore still remembers how hesitant he felt the first time he was shown Dolby Vision, the company’s take on the high-dynamic range (HDR) technique used in imaging that yields a greater span of luminosity — closer to what the human eye sees.
D’Amore, senior colorist at Deluxe’s Encore unit, had come to Dolby in San Francisco at the request of Netflix, which was considering shooting its Marvel shows in Dolby Vision. “I just thought, ‘Oh, no, this is going to take forever [to learn],’” he recalls.
Fast forward to 2017, and D’Amore has become a kind of HDR pioneer, and one of those most familiar with Dolby Vision.
“I spent a whole career training for this,” D’Amore says, referring to his work on Marvel’s “Iron Fist.” “Every step until now has been fairly gradual.”
The colorist also remastered all of Netflix’s existing Marvel shows in Dolby Vision, another gig requiring a learning curve.
“The first few weeks doing it, you color a scene, leave for lunch, come back and look at it and think, ‘I did that? Ouch! Way too much contrast!’”
Dolby Vision, and HDR in general, offer a wider range of richer colors than other technologies, as well as a much greater contrast ratio. Fire looks more lifelike; extremely bright colors coexist with the darkest blacks in the same frame.
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Senior Silicon Valley Correspondent
Janko Roettgers
@jank0
MARCH 30, 2017 | 10:45AM PT
Tony D’Amore still remembers how hesitant he felt the first time he was shown Dolby Vision, the company’s take on the high-dynamic range (HDR) technique used in imaging that yields a greater span of luminosity — closer to what the human eye sees.
D’Amore, senior colorist at Deluxe’s Encore unit, had come to Dolby in San Francisco at the request of Netflix, which was considering shooting its Marvel shows in Dolby Vision. “I just thought, ‘Oh, no, this is going to take forever [to learn],’” he recalls.
Fast forward to 2017, and D’Amore has become a kind of HDR pioneer, and one of those most familiar with Dolby Vision.
“I spent a whole career training for this,” D’Amore says, referring to his work on Marvel’s “Iron Fist.” “Every step until now has been fairly gradual.”
The colorist also remastered all of Netflix’s existing Marvel shows in Dolby Vision, another gig requiring a learning curve.
“The first few weeks doing it, you color a scene, leave for lunch, come back and look at it and think, ‘I did that? Ouch! Way too much contrast!’”
Dolby Vision, and HDR in general, offer a wider range of richer colors than other technologies, as well as a much greater contrast ratio. Fire looks more lifelike; extremely bright colors coexist with the darkest blacks in the same frame.
Via