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    Dale Grahn on Meeting Steven Spielberg

    April 3, 2013 by Patrick

    While color timing on “Amistad,” Dale Grahn recalls the first time he met Steven Spielberg.

    Check out our entire series of Dale Grahn interviews here.

    Take a look at Dale Grahn Color for the iPad at dalegrahncolor.com to learn color timing from Dale himself.

    Filed Under: Featured, Interviews Tagged With: Amistad, Analog Coloring, App, Color, Color Correction, color timer, Creating looks, CrumplePop., Dale Grahn, Dale Grahn Interview, Dreamworks, ipad, Steven Spielberg, Tutorial

    Dale Grahn on Creating the Look of “Saving Private Ryan” (1998)

    March 4, 2013 by Patrick

    Dale Grahn explains how the iconic look of “Saving Private Ryan” came about in a strange manner.

    We have an entire series of interviews with Dale based on his work in the film industry. To check out each of those, click here.

    To see Dale in action, check out Dale Grahn Color for the iPad at dalegrahncolor.com.

    Filed Under: Featured, Interviews Tagged With: Analog Coloring, App, Bleach Bypass, Color, Color Correction, color timer, Creating looks, CrumplePop., Dale Grahn, Dale Grahn Interview, ipad, look, Looks, Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg, Tutorial

    Dale Grahn on Creating a Look

    February 28, 2013 by Patrick

    Dale Grahn on color timing “The Ring” by not creating “looks” and focusing instead on what makes things creepy.

    To learn more from Dale, check out our app Dale Grahn Color for the iPad at dalegrahncolor.com.

    Filed Under: Featured, Interviews Tagged With: Animation, App, Color, Color Correction, color timer, CrumplePop., Dale Grahn, Dale Grahn Interview, Disney, ipad, Pixar, Toy Story, Tutorial

    Dale Grahn on Working at Pixar

    February 19, 2013 by Patrick

    Dale Grahn tells the story of color timing Toy Story for Pixar.

    To learn more about our Dale Grahn Color iPad app take a look at dalegrahncolor.com.

    Filed Under: Featured, Interviews Tagged With: Animation, App, Color, Color Correction, color timer, CrumplePop., Dale Grahn, Dale Grahn Interview, Disney, ipad, Pixar, Toy Story, Tutorial

    Dale Grahn on Timing His First Feature

    February 11, 2013 by Patrick

    Dale Grahn shares his experience on color timing his first film, Predator (1987.)

    Dale Grahn Color is currently in the new and noteworthy section of the iPad App store. To learn more check out our Dale Grahn Color page or take a look at the app in the iTunes store.

    Filed Under: Featured, Interviews Tagged With: App, Color, Color Correction, color timer, CrumplePop., Dale Grahn, Dale Grahn Interview, ipad, Predator

    Here it is, Dale Grahn Color for iPad

    January 16, 2013 by Patrick

    When we first sat down with Dale Grahn, over lunch, we weren’t sure what to make of his idea.

    “All you need is six buttons,” he said. “We can revolutionize the industry.”

    It was a bit hard to believe. Color grading was a highly technical, semi-mysterious science. Power windows, HSL keys, tracking masks, eyedroppers, scopes, giant control surfaces in dark suites – our understanding was that you needed power tools to even play the game. A lot more than six buttons.

    Nevertheless, it was difficult to discount what Dale was saying. Dale Grahn was a color timer – the film world antecedent to the digital colorist. And he wasn’t just any color timer – he had crafted the look of Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Munich, and hundreds of other films. When Apocalypse Now needed to be re-timed for Apocalypse Now Redux, they went to Dale Grahn. When Steven Spielberg needed a color timer, he went to Dale Grahn.

    Dale Grahn Controls
    So we put aside our disbelief, and took the plunge with Dale and his six buttons. Over the next many months of working with him on Dale Grahn Color – an iPad app the teaches you color timing techniques – it all began to make sense. Dale’s method – the method of the color timer – was very, very different from what we were used to.

    Dale doesn’t immediately slice up the image and start tweaking it. As a color timer, you don’t have those tools. You have to look at the image as a whole, and work with it on its own terms. It’s an absolutely, fundamentally different way to look at an image. Sometimes, that’s a lot more limiting than working with digital tools. Power windows are handy.

    Dale Grahn Controls
    But more often, Dale’s approach is liberating. With all the tools and gizmos gone, you have to focus on fundamentals. What does early morning light look like? What does it look like when it’s a cold day, and the subject has a darker skin tone? How does that connect to the feeling of the story at that moment?

    Often, the best way to approach these questions is to get back to basics. With, for instance, just six buttons.

    “The goal is to learn how to think color,” Dale had said when we first met. It makes sense to us now.

    This is just our first collaboration with Dale – we also have some some very exciting tools for film and video editors in the works. For now, we hope you enjoy Dale Grahn Color for iPad. With the app launched, we finally have time to site down with a hot chocolate and try to figure out why, in that one lesson, Dale added those two points of cyan…

    To learn more check out http://www.dalegrahncolor.com

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    Filed Under: Featured, Tips Tagged With: App, Color, Color Correction, Color Timing, Dale Grahn, iOS, ipad, Tutorial

    Control Your Canon With An Android Phone

    August 5, 2011 by Patrick



    DSLR Controller for Android is a nifty little app that allows you to control your Canon EOS DSLR using an Android phone or tablet. I’ve seen apps like these for the iPhone, but this seems to be the first for Google’s platform. Using a tablet and DSLR together seems like a dream: a larger display that’s easy to control. The app is currently in beta and works with only a select few phones and tablets (Samsung Galaxy S2 is the only phone currently,) but this definitely looks promising. I’m excited to see more people coming up with apps that take advantage of DSLRs.

    DSLR Controller is currently available for 8.99. Check out the Android Market for more info.

    Thanks to Gizmodo for the heads up.

    Filed Under: DSLR Tagged With: Android, App, Canon EOS, Control, DSLR

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