Photographer explains how CBS uses color adjustments to make Steve Bannon ‘look bad’ on 60 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkF9Ab8wblM
Photographer Explains How CBS Uses Color Adjustments To Make Steve Bannon ‘Look Bad’ On 60 Minutes
September 10, 2017
Following Steve Bannon’s highly anticipated interview with Charlie Rose on 60 Minutes Sunday night, professional photographer Peter Duke published a video explainer on how CBS may have used color adjustments to make the Breitbart News boss “look bad” on television.
“It seems like 60 minutes would like you to listen less and look more at Steve Bannon. By subtly tweaking the color of the video, they make him look like a bleary-eyed drunk. I show you how they did it,” writes Duke on the video’s YouTube page.
In the video, Duke explains how CBS color adjusted Bannon’s shots to make his eyes and lips red by increasing the level of saturation. This results in curtains that are a brighter orange behind Bannon than they are in Charlie Rose’s shot. Rose’s shot was made “cooler,” to make the host’s make-up more subtle.
Duke then adjusted the interview’s lighting, removing Bannon’s redness and Rose’s “coolness.”
The result is a natural looking Bannon.
Below is a transcript of Peter Duke’s video:
DUKE: I wanted to talk a little bit today about color correction and grading, and how it can be used to make people look better or worse on television. This is a still frame of Steve Bannon from the 60 Minutes interview that’s going to run tonight. And the first things that I noticed was that there were red circles around his eyes and his lips looked cherry red. And I also noticed the curtains in the background looked really orange.
Now I’ve met Steve Bannon and I know what he looks like. He’s Irish and he does kinda have paper skin. But, he doesn’t have pronounced red circles around his eyes. That’s not who he is in real life. So I started comparing the two shots of Charlie Rose and Steve Bannon to see what kind of differences I could find, and it was very interesting. The first thing that you need to take a look at is the coloring saturation. Those drapes in the Breitbart Embassy are actually the same color. Now the light lighting them might be slightly closer or farther away, which accounts for the brightness, but they are the same color. And you can see from these two shots that they are defiantly not the same color.
If you take a look at Charlie Rose’s shirt, it’s about 13 unit of blue from neutral, which means that they’ve graded it into a cooler shot. That does a couple of things. It makes his make-up look less clownish and it also knocks down the contrast a little bit. So, I’m going to do the same thing to Steve. I’m going to make it a little bit bluer and I’m also going to lighten up the shadows a little bit. And Voila, the blood shot eyes are gone.
Now I’m going to do to Charlie what they did to Steve. I’m going to kick up the situation, the red, the orange, and i’m going to increase the contrast. So here are the two shots before and after, before and after. And here’s what the pictures would look like if they were graded similarly. Steve doesn’t have red circles under his eyes, Charlie’s make-up is subtle, can’t really tell he’s got it on, unless you’re looking. And Steve doesn’t look like the monster they want you to think that he is.
More than 99% of people who saw this CBS News YouTube video knew that CBS was falsely labeling a violent left wing thug as an innocent victim
In this video from the seattle4truth YouTube channel, which was filmed at Berkeley, California earlier this month, a left wing thug tries to use glass bottles to hit people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03bHf6j1T5o
However, in this video from the CBS SF Bay Area YouTube channel, CBS News falsely labels the violent left wing thug as an innocent victim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcrY2QbppWg
Fortunately, YouTube viewers are a lot smarter than what CBS News gives them credit for. The CBS News video has 193 thumbs up, and 23,178 thumbs down. More than 99% of viewers who voted, voted for thumbs down.
This is a great example of how the mainstream media tries to brainwash viewers with false information. But it’s also a great example of how the viewers are smart enough to recognize false information when they see it.
For the record, the guy who threw the punch at the left wing thug is no angel. He’s a white supremacist who spent five years in prison/jail for committing armed robbery.
So we have a communist and a nazi trying to cause physical violence against each other. I won’t be shedding any tears for either one of them.
I just wish CBS News was honest in its reporting.
After CBS News writer David Leavitt said he felt calmed by the idea of Donald Trump dying, CBS News falsely claimed that Leavitt had never worked for them
David Leavitt is a writer for CBS News. Here is the CBS News page that shows the articles that he has written for them: https://web.archive.org/web/20150905060326/http://boston.cbslocal.com/tag/david-leavitt/
However, after Leavitt recently said he felt calmed by the idea of Donald Trump dying, CBS News falsely claimed that Leavitt had never worked for them.
