Indian wedding warm: keeps marigold, haldi and diya glow

Keeps the warmth of marigolds, haldi, tungsten and diyas, leaning red rather than yellow so skin stays natural, with rich reds and golds, deeper shadows, stronger contrast and a light vignette, as in many Indian wedding albums.

One of the six looks made for Indian weddings, region by region. You choose it per project; CullTone never picks it from the people in the frame.

Groom seeing the bride for the first time in a garden, in True to camera Groom seeing the bride for the first time in a garden, in Indian wedding: warm & rich True to cameraIndian wedding: warm & rich

Drag to compare. Left of the line is True to camera, the plainest look; right of it is Indian wedding: warm & rich at full strength, rendered from the same file.

Portrait of a woman in a charcoal coat, in Indian wedding: warm & rich
A portrait in even studio light
Couple dancing among sparklers at night, in Indian wedding: warm & rich
Sparklers on a night dance floor, under string lights
From the list of all 54 looks
What it doesKeeps marigold, haldi, tungsten and diya warmth; rich reds and golds; skin natural, not yellow; deeper contrast
Good forIndian weddings and events where the warm light is part of the day

When we'd reach for it

Indian weddings and events where the warm light is part of the day: haldi mornings, mehndi, diya-lit pheras.

When we wouldn't

A white-themed reception under daylight LEDs, where the warmth was never there.

The recipe

These are the settings stored in the look, drawn rather than listed. They sit on top of your camera's own colour and the exposure and white balance CullTone sets for each photo, so the same look lands a little differently on every frame.

Tone curve Dashed line: no change. Points are where the look bends the curve.
Colour grading Dark dot: the tint in the shadows. Light dot: the tint in the highlights. Further from the centre means stronger.
  • Exposuremore
  • Contrastmore
  • Highlightsless
  • Shadowsmore
  • Warmthmore
  • Vibrancemore
  • Saturationmore
  • Vignetteless
SlidersEach bar starts at the centre: right means more, left means less. The scale is CullTone's own, so it doesn't map one to one onto Lightroom's sliders.

Every look has a strength from 0 to 1.5. At 0 you get the plain camera-matched edit, at 1 the look as drawn here, and above 1 more of everything it does. More on reading curves in tone curves for photographers.

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