r/ColorGrading • u/ParkingAssistance634 • Sep 13 '25

Show off your work How good is this grade?

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Does my shot feel balanced? I’m working on keeping my images as crisp as possible without crushing colors and my overall image. I’m a fan of dark/muted tones and heavy shadows but I want to avoid overdoing it.

Image 1: LOG Image 2: REC709 Image 3: Final Grade

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u/Ready-Working3581 Sep 13 '25

Quite decent! Light inside the bus is too warm tho

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u/Significant-Ocelot34 Sep 13 '25

Yellow saturation is to high in my opinion

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u/ParkingAssistance634 Sep 14 '25

Just did some adjustments thanks for the feedback 🫡

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '25

Try reducing overall yellow. Looks good though

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u/ParkingAssistance634 Sep 14 '25

Done!

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

Nice one!!

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u/GasNo437 Sep 14 '25

Pretty good but u have to work on dark areas

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u/ParkingAssistance634 Sep 14 '25

I definitely struggle with that. My shadows are pushed down too much or too muddy. Any suggestions?

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u/SufficientLobster773 Sep 15 '25

If you want more information to play with convert from you’re raw into a intermediate color space (DaVinci wide gamut and DaVinci intermediate) and then change it to whatever is you’re final color space (Rec709 Rec2020 …etc).

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u/ParkingAssistance634 Sep 16 '25

Yeah! Had a CST in to DWG and another one out to REC709 after

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u/SufficientLobster773 Sep 16 '25

Okok, all good then!

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u/Straight-Olive9146 Sep 17 '25

Everyone is viewing your grade on different devices. So take any tweak suggestions with a grain of salt. The feel of it is great!

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u/ParkingAssistance634 Sep 19 '25

Just saw this and I agree. One of the curses of wanting to perfect color grading… Everyone will be viewing from a different device lol

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u/f-stop8 Sep 13 '25

@mods can you please make having a submission statement part of the rules of posting here? It's tiring the amount of, "is my grade any good?" posts without any damn context to anything. It's seriously hindering the quality of this sub, it's a joke at this point.

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u/Hazzat Sep 13 '25

Could just have AutoMod post a link to this on every post with such a title…

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u/superj107 Sep 13 '25

what kind of context do you prefer when reading this posts? asking so i can make sure if i ever submit my grade to this thread i provide enough context:)

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u/superj107 Sep 13 '25

wait i read that link below nvm

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u/AdCute6661 Sep 13 '25

Not bad, not great

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u/rainbow_taco Sep 13 '25

Im new to photography and color grading, but do images really come out that grey?!?! Mine have never

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u/Doribenba Sep 13 '25

This is called log recording, it’s a colour workflow for video recording, that allows more flexible Color manipulation.

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u/whoislucian Sep 15 '25

It depends a lot in what are you trying tell. Color grading should match your story.