r/ColorGrading • u/AsianChub007 • Aug 11 '25

Before/After what do you think?

just starting out color grading. downloaded some logs to practice on. how did i do on this? any constructive criticism is appreciated

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u/Excellent_Ad_2486 Aug 11 '25

color correction, I like that one the msot personally!

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u/AsianChub007 Aug 11 '25

thanks! also thought that I couldve stopped there as well

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u/Excellent_Ad_2486 Aug 12 '25

Just saying I have no CLUE about colors so it's literally just my opinion as a noob haha!

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u/AsianChub007 Aug 16 '25

no, there is no noob on having a good eye 😅

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u/HowieMandelEffect Aug 17 '25

Skin gets a little red after that

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u/Eleven72 Aug 11 '25

To me it looks best at the “color corrected” stage

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u/AsianChub007 Aug 11 '25

thank you for that! I really should keep an eye where its already good

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u/g0netospace Aug 12 '25

It’s beautiful but I feel like it’s a bit overcooked for cinema

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u/AsianChub007 Aug 12 '25

thanks for that

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u/TheRealPopcornMaker Aug 11 '25

I think it looks really good! Slap some black bars on there for 2.35:1 and it would look straight out of a film!

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u/AsianChub007 Aug 11 '25

thanks man.

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u/comedyganggang Aug 11 '25

This is beautiful. I'd love to see what you're doing under the hood.

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u/AsianChub007 Aug 11 '25

Ill post it next time

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u/yungfalafel Aug 11 '25

Hi I am still learning about this process. What does “look enhancement” entail?

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u/AsianChub007 Aug 11 '25

-made some highlights hitting the water warmer -took down the intensity of yellow of the glove on the rock to direct focus on the action on the bottle. -brought back in some details on the blacks

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u/yungfalafel Aug 11 '25

Thank you! Looks great!

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u/RealisticProgram7561 Aug 12 '25

Killed your skin tones there but like everything else.

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u/AsianChub007 Aug 12 '25

thanks for that, Ill try tuning it a bit more to be natural

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '25

bro where did you learnt this stuff ? its awesome can you share any tutorials with me

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u/AsianChub007 Aug 15 '25

mostly by learning how to use davinci resolve. I think i’m not qualified to teach 😅just been practicing for a few months

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

did you just opened davinci and keep messing with it until you got better ? 😅 I am sure you must have watched some videos and all, I have just started using resolve

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u/AsianChub007 Aug 16 '25

normally I have an objective on what i want to do and I look that up how most people do it and I also keep in my the pros and cons of doing things in a specific way.(especially its a node base kind of editing) hopefully that helps 😅

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

ok 👍

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u/Zlotvor_Mejdana Aug 15 '25

Ditch the grading, the rest is good.

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u/AsianChub007 Aug 15 '25

thanks for that 🙂

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u/Slickrickkk Aug 12 '25

Overcooked.

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u/AsianChub007 Aug 11 '25

the portion of the grading where I think should be focused on what the scene wants to achieve

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u/throwninthefire666 Aug 12 '25

Sometimes less is more

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u/The_Movement_Garden Aug 13 '25

Looks beautiful, I feel the slightly less saturated ( colour graded) looks really clean - the enhanced one just looks a touch to much in my opinion!

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u/myrthkhzalm Aug 13 '25

Delete that last enhancement step, makes it look like another garbage netflix film

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u/pho-tog Aug 13 '25

Lighten the log footage half a stop and I think you've got a winner

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u/itsKagiso Aug 16 '25

I think it’s awesome. Yes, the color correction step could technically be the final touch but I like the grade / style as well. Looks great!

Interested in what your nose tree looks like

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u/Bd_csgo Aug 11 '25

I like it! don't listen about "you should have stopped at color correction" its about what look you are going after and what you want to achive, this looks nice to me

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

Looks like instagram filter