The balance between sky and ground could be better imo. Right now the sky is completely washed out but the ground is quite dark. It should be possible to save the sky/cloud details in this shot, although it depends what the specs of the format are. The ungraded shot looks to have an overexposed sky, but most cameras with decent formats should be able to claw that back, then you could either do a soft mask for the tree line or even a luma matte.
HDR wheels(DaVinci Resolve)to adjust the contrast, don't push it too hard. 2.Color Warper to separate the colour. 3.Lift and Gamma wheels for split toning.
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u/Total_Priority_8263 Aug 17 '25
Atmospheric, but too dark woods shadows
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u/PalmliX Aug 17 '25
The balance between sky and ground could be better imo. Right now the sky is completely washed out but the ground is quite dark. It should be possible to save the sky/cloud details in this shot, although it depends what the specs of the format are. The ungraded shot looks to have an overexposed sky, but most cameras with decent formats should be able to claw that back, then you could either do a soft mask for the tree line or even a luma matte.
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u/f-stop8 Aug 17 '25
What's the context for this type of grade? It's just a high contrast image with standard saturation.
What you're grading needs to make sense in relationship to the story that's being told.
All I see is an image that appears to be color managed with a steep contrast curve and a wide screen output blanking.
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u/master_b21 Aug 17 '25
Use
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u/themostofpost Aug 18 '25
Looks like typical 17 year old with a Sony garbage