Carrie Keagan's Color Blocking Fashion sense on the Craig Ferguson Show.

I'm being serious when I say that I have never seen such a vivid shade of yellow as Carrie Keagan's yellow dress on the Feb. 28th, 2012 Craig Ferguson show. 

 I'm impressed when a color, any color, can pop off the television screen because the combination of luminance, saturation and gray scale has been perfectly captured. 

 Unfortunately, CBS internet video has crushed the black levels from 7.5 to 0.0, so even though the yellow still pops, the actual video image is being incorrectly being displayed by CBS on the internet. 

 Keagan mentioned that her dress was part of the "color blocking" fashion rage.  If you click on the link, definitely watch the 16 image slide show on color blocking fashion.

Unfortunately, CBS internet video has crushed the black levels from 7.5 to 0.0, so even though the yellow still pops, the actual video image is being incorrectly being displayed by CBS. 

Crushing the black level is a way to conserve the amount of broadband needed to transmit an image over the internet. When Keagan turns her back to show the black on the back of her dress, that black is probably not 100 percent black, but it shows up that way in these images because the black levels have been crushed.

I'm amazed at how much I have learned by having my own video editing studio and how easily such basic, critical and foundational knowledge skills are either being lost or purposely ignored as technology continues to "improve".

MyAlexLOGIC offers classes on monitor calibration and key color correction strategies.


You can catch this Feb. 28, 2012 Craig Ferguson episode at CBS online.