South Indian temple gold: silk reds and temple jewellery

Deep silk reds and temple golds with warm, glowing highlights.

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 South Indian temple gold True to cameraSouth Indian temple gold

Drag to compare. Left of the line is True to camera, the plainest look; right of it is South Indian temple gold at full strength, rendered from the same file.

Portrait of a woman in a charcoal coat, in South Indian temple gold
A portrait in even studio light
Couple dancing among sparklers at night, in South Indian temple gold
Sparklers on a night dance floor, under string lights
From the list of all 54 looks
What it doesDeep silk reds and temple golds, warm glowing highlights
Good forTamil, Telugu, Kannada and Kerala temple ceremonies, muhurtham, jewellery portraits

When we'd reach for it

Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Kerala temple ceremonies, the muhurtham, jewellery portraits.

When we wouldn't

A Kerala garden reception in green and ivory. Kerala natural green suits it better.

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.
  • Exposureless
  • Contrastmore
  • Highlightsless
  • Shadowsmore
  • Warmthmore
  • Vibrancemore
  • 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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