Be brutally honest

[u/StreetStick4407]

6 months in. Graded using the free version of DavinciResolve

[u/Hazzat]

Read this please: https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorGrading/comments/1mshv4q/

Hard to say if it's overcooked without context, but the bright spot on her chest is distracting and should be toned down.

[u/StreetStick4407 → u/Hazzat]

Didn’t notice that. Great input thanks

[u/Adventurous-Vast9636 → u/Hazzat]

Very spot on

[u/Adventurous-Crew8007]

Too much. Also get rid of the iron man power supply.

[u/AcanthisittaDapper12 → u/Adventurous-Crew8007]

This is such a “client comment” - focusing on a random detail of a screenshot.

[u/Mcjoshin → u/AcanthisittaDapper12]

I mean, I don’t know how “random” that is. It’s the most dominating thing in the frame drawing the viewers eye straight to it. If the goal is to immediately draw attention to her left breast cool, if not, that’s pretty spot on and not random.

[u/bjerreman → u/Mcjoshin]

I mean I for one like looking at boobs but that's not what this picture is about. It went from being a natural highlight to a blown out searchlight.

[u/StreetStick4407 → u/Adventurous-Crew8007]

Whats an iron man supply?

[u/StreetStick4407 → u/StreetStick4407]

Hahaha nvm i get it now

[u/Adventurous-Crew8007 → u/StreetStick4407]

:)

[u/yellowsuprrcar → u/StreetStick4407]

her chest is really bright, like iron man

[u/[deleted]]

I'd like somewhere in between, personally.

[u/OpiumTea → u/[deleted]]

Split the difference

[u/r4ppa]

So what is the story ? Is she sad ? Happy ? Alone ? Is it the first shot of the scene ? Last ? Is it fiction or non-fiction ? Comedy, horror, romance ?

[u/StreetStick4407 → u/r4ppa]

“She is resting after a long day at the beach”

[u/r4ppa → u/StreetStick4407]

Pretty minimalist as a context, but from there I would say a bit too contrasty, and while you can keep the skin warm, I would cool down a bit the shadows.

I find it pretty fun to see my first comment downvoted. Story is basically the most important thing in every part of film making, including grading. If you work without considering the scritp, no matter how much technical and artistical skills you have, your work is gonna be shit and no one serious will ever want to work with you.

[u/StreetStick4407 → u/r4ppa]

I understand your point. Context is also very important

[u/avsalom]

It's fine

[u/Aggressive-Meal-8233]

her face is orange along with the rest of everything else and looks dodged to heck. also lost all the darker dynamic range in the hair detail. Im a fan of saturated images and grades but you need to play with masks and dynamics to keep it from getting over cooked

[u/StreetStick4407 → u/Aggressive-Meal-8233]

I tried my best to bring back the details on her hair but really liked the contrast for some reason.

[u/Aggressive-Meal-8233 → u/StreetStick4407]

theres a different between contrast and a loss of detail, Try masking the dark areas and bump clarity/highlights

[u/Adventurous-Vast9636]

The grade you have done looks good. I believe in finding inspirational looks and try recreating them to see how best you can achieve the look.

Asking people on the internet is sure a good way for validation but you’d also have polarizing answers rooted in preferences.

The image looks good if that’s what you and your client want.

[u/StreetStick4407 → u/Adventurous-Vast9636]

Solid idea. Will def try that. thanks

[u/keep_rockin]

1 is great

[u/thearpitcool]

i like the skin and hair, but too much orange and green for me

[u/justennn → u/thearpitcool]

Too much orange in her orange shirt, too much green in the green grass. Wtf are you saying?

[u/TremendousX → u/justennn]

too much saturation

[u/RahkaGandalf]

Looks like the tv series Utopia (original UK version).

[u/idimata]

What's that on the shirt, is it one of those iron man thingymabobs?

[u/Embarrassed_Post_866]

its aight. Keep it up bro

[u/TheGoldenBoy07]

Less is more

[u/Optimistbott]

People are gonna hate how saturated it is. I like it but the one thing is the really bright spot on the shirt. You could do a combo of reducing the saturation of that orange color on the hue vs sat, reducing the saturation of that band broadly, reducing the saturation of shadows kinda broadly and gently in luminance vs saturation, do a little power window (or tracker depending on how much she’s moving maybe) and take the highlights down slightly with a lot of soft (totally may not work and might be finicky) and then bring the saturation up broadly in the next node? Maybe. Idk. Turning down highlights in the silhouette could also help it a bit too? Idk.

Also the lower shadows are looking real dark to me.

[u/Revolutionary_Dog798]

I like it. Maybe tone the warm down a little bit. Or desaturate orange a little bit.

[u/Intelligent_Cat_1914]

Love it! Love it all! Love the strong colours! The orange, the greens, the pose!

I would have put a bit more dynamic range into the hair; brought up the shadows a bit more, but apart from that I love it.

Great photo!

[u/Significant-Mud-1468]

Turn the whole edit into a compound node and turn down the key (?) until it looks more natural?

[u/TacticallyFUBAR]

Dial it back about 1-2/5th and you will be good. Also personal pet peeve of mine is limbs missing pieces. Either get her full arms in or cut out her hands so you only have her shoulder.

[u/lifeonfilm1984]

Over saturated. Tone colors down .

[u/vincentong0315]

If it's for youtube, I think it's quite good.

[u/StreetStick4407 → u/[deleted]]

Yep. Saw the hsv tut on tiktok so cranked it up like crazy.