Excellent article in ProLost today.
… skin tones are just one of a small handful of what I call “memory colors.” Memory colors are colors that are, in the minds of your audience, inseparable from certain common objects or events. For example, the sky is so associated with blue that you might feel that you see those two words together as often as you see them individually. The same goes for green and grass.
The most basic idea of color correcting is that you are making colorscorrect, which is to say that you are making objects on the screen appear to be the colors that we know them to be.
I’ll keep this great info in mind when color correcting video or stills.
Thanks Stu.