Poring Over the Footage

The top image of my son in some pretty intense shadow shows a split screen before and after I applied color correction to the image. I used a Levels adjustment to lift the exposure a bit and a Saturation adjustment to boost the color. Both adjustments are standard in nearly every video editing application. The area above the red line shows the image with the filters applied; the area below shows the original image. Remember to get the image “close” in-camera; then you can “finish” it when you edit.

Photo by Vanelli.