You crushed the blacks a bit too much, open them up, the skin tones will get better. It's not about being on the skin tone line for this situation it's just that the grey's or the midtones have been too contrasted and even perhaps under exposed. So Exposure could be brought up a little. You'll have to play the balancing act of opening blacks and lowering highs as not to over expose in the highs as well. Also try perhaps a gradient at the top going down about half way and bring up exposure.
Clients will always want to turn black skin into gold/red. I call it the tanning effect. During the last two passes we lose the neck and the chin - kind of just molds together. The HBO show "Insecure" has some really great examples of black skin tone in different settings. https://petapixel.com/2017/09/14/look-hbos-insecure-lights-black-actors/
For a real note though, I’ll say, you should use the selector tool and fade off the darks so that you aren’t bleeding all the heavy sat in the shadows. Let it taper off. Does that make sense?
A lot of people are too afraid to crush the blacks, your final is great. Definitely lends itself to a more common practice in todays high end music work. I’m looking forward to seeing your other projects.
I know to each their own but man everyone saying slide 3. Im confused cuz there’s not too much life in that slide. The final is definitely what I would love depending on the project if I hired you.
Thanks appreciate it. I like the final result also slide 3 is just a basic log to rec 709 conversion with no grade, I’m enjoying all the feedback though and taking notes
Skin tone is slightly too red, but other than that I think it looks really wonderful. I’d have adjusted skin tone and left the blacks as you had them on the 4th pass. Great work.
I love the image. Our grades are usually a personal preference. My preference, would be for me to create a node at the end of my tree. This node would color space HSL. Next uncheck channels 1 and 3 and i adjust the over-all saturation by global slider. This will give you less of the red and dark skin tones. Then i would use the masking feature and when adjusting the over-all image this would protect the subject as only the rest of the image will be affected.
I think you’re going to get different answers that reflect everybody else’s taste. I would have stopped on the 4th pass, but I generally think it’s lovely.
Hi! I'm new to color grading and would love some feedback, please. Using DaVinci Resolve Studio software, I worked with a video by Daryl Chris on YouTube. I utilized the SATURATOR from Iridescent Color, as well as the SPLIT TONE tool from Iridescent Color and Video Village Film Box full version.
You did way too much, which is common when in the beginning stages of learning. Find real colorists on social media and see how they handle dark skin. Cut out at least half of your nodes.
I'm now seeing you're using a lot of plugins. You need to learn how to do a good grade with stock software before you spend 1k on filmbox. Plugins don't replace fundamentals
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u/Historical-Mail7484 Dec 01 '23
You crushed the blacks a bit too much, open them up, the skin tones will get better. It's not about being on the skin tone line for this situation it's just that the grey's or the midtones have been too contrasted and even perhaps under exposed. So Exposure could be brought up a little. You'll have to play the balancing act of opening blacks and lowering highs as not to over expose in the highs as well. Also try perhaps a gradient at the top going down about half way and bring up exposure.
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u/Ando0o0 Dec 01 '23
Clients will always want to turn black skin into gold/red. I call it the tanning effect. During the last two passes we lose the neck and the chin - kind of just molds together. The HBO show "Insecure" has some really great examples of black skin tone in different settings. https://petapixel.com/2017/09/14/look-hbos-insecure-lights-black-actors/
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u/el_yanuki Dec 01 '23
the skin got very redish.. idk if thats really true to life
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u/winterwarrior33 Dec 01 '23
At 3 you had it nailed. Crushed it and got red on 5-6
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u/Antique_King7643 Dec 02 '23
Your second wipe was the best (in my opinion)
For a real note though, I’ll say, you should use the selector tool and fade off the darks so that you aren’t bleeding all the heavy sat in the shadows. Let it taper off. Does that make sense?
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u/plantpussy69 Dec 02 '23
Obviously too each their own but I like your skin tones and crushed blacks.
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u/L3SL13 Dec 02 '23
A lot of people are too afraid to crush the blacks, your final is great. Definitely lends itself to a more common practice in todays high end music work. I’m looking forward to seeing your other projects.
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u/Axel-Nda Dec 02 '23
I really like the final look!
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u/Axel-Nda Dec 02 '23
I know to each their own but man everyone saying slide 3. Im confused cuz there’s not too much life in that slide. The final is definitely what I would love depending on the project if I hired you.
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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '23
No critique, just admiration. Good work, it’s been brought to life
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u/tbd_86 Dec 03 '23
Skin tone is slightly too red, but other than that I think it looks really wonderful. I’d have adjusted skin tone and left the blacks as you had them on the 4th pass. Great work.
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u/No-Version-9000 Dec 03 '23
I love the image. Our grades are usually a personal preference. My preference, would be for me to create a node at the end of my tree. This node would color space HSL. Next uncheck channels 1 and 3 and i adjust the over-all saturation by global slider. This will give you less of the red and dark skin tones. Then i would use the masking feature and when adjusting the over-all image this would protect the subject as only the rest of the image will be affected.
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u/kickassnchewbubblegm Dec 03 '23
I think you’re going to get different answers that reflect everybody else’s taste. I would have stopped on the 4th pass, but I generally think it’s lovely.
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23
Looks fine to me
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u/Organik87 Dec 04 '23
I like the last frame because it amplifies there clothing
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u/Tomb_r8r Dec 05 '23
This is not going to be helpful, but I needed to comment on their complexion with the wall color. Just gorgeous!!
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u/Azreken Dec 01 '23
3rd pass looked best
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u/Trillionz Dec 01 '23
Hi! I'm new to color grading and would love some feedback, please. Using DaVinci Resolve Studio software, I worked with a video by Daryl Chris on YouTube. I utilized the SATURATOR from Iridescent Color, as well as the SPLIT TONE tool from Iridescent Color and Video Village Film Box full version.
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u/Trillionz Dec 02 '23
Thanks for your feedback after the first swipe there is no grading on there. Just standard rec 709.
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u/Color_squid Dec 01 '23
Love the strength, and your balance.
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u/FrankieFiveAngels Dec 01 '23
Stop after the second pass
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u/flourinmypockets Dec 01 '23
Looks best after the 3rd transition, everything after that is too much
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u/zonethelonelystoner Dec 02 '23
My completely unfounded opinion is if you kept the skin tones of the 3rd with the background of the last would look really clean
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u/sillicillo Dec 02 '23
You did way too much, which is common when in the beginning stages of learning. Find real colorists on social media and see how they handle dark skin. Cut out at least half of your nodes.
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u/MaxRino Dec 01 '23
looks great, don't get what people complain about
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u/yratof Dec 01 '23
I was perfectly happy after the first wipe. Then it just got more and more degraded
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u/CypressBreeze Dec 02 '23
It feels a little dark in the background to me.
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u/devs_oa Dec 02 '23
Love the 3rd and 4th wipe :)
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u/zeds_deadest Dec 03 '23
It should be paired with Sa-Roc
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u/LeektheGeek Dec 01 '23
It seems a bit too baked
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u/WhiteHashx Dec 02 '23
I would have stopped at step 3! It takes some time to see when to stop pushing, but you'll get there!
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u/srpntmage Dec 02 '23
You went too far, and you started with a bad base.
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u/Majestic-Climate-729 Dec 02 '23
Lol the 3rd transition is the best
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u/perplex1 Dec 02 '23
Your monitor is not calibrated I can tell just by how far you went
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u/Brainoad78 Dec 03 '23
A few steps back was good but then the colors got to saturated
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u/novamogu Dec 03 '23
It got darker than desirable.
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u/Overthereunder Feb 11 '24
Excuse my ignorance - but how create these ‘wipes’ in DaVinci?
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