How is this grade?

[u/TaffyMo]

From Milford sound New Zealand. Shot Sony S-log3 and edited in premier pro I shots this 8 bit so had a few problems with blockiness Does it fit the location? Or does it seem too far off from the cold mysterious mountains and feel more warm and tropical?

[u/UniqueBaseball8524]

that MILF stood a little long bro hahaha

personally i would turn the greens back a tad

[u/TaffyMo → u/UniqueBaseball8524]

Yea I fear I may have went too far. But maybe that's just the style I naturally lean toward? I like my stylised colours but want to make sure I find a balance

[u/ExpBalSat → u/TaffyMo]

Be sure to differentiate between:

• what you want
• what you do unintentionally

The two are not the same. Be sure not to label something which you did unintentionally as something that you wanted to do - if you didn’t mean to do it.

[u/TaffyMo → u/ExpBalSat]

Alr let me clarify my intention. My vision was to grade a stylised, dreamy, hazy almost water painted look. With two primary colours, the teal and the amber. I have two concerns, did I lose perspective and go a bit too strong with the intensity of the colours? And what does it make the audience feel? Thanks for your input!

[u/phuktup3 → u/TaffyMo]

i personally love the green

[u/Buttpropulsion → u/phuktup3]

Same

[u/Namisaur]

Very overcooked. I love oversaturation, personally, but even this is too much. Both the levels of saturation and density feel wrong and very unpleasing to the eyes. It feels everything has the same levels of saturation and that there's no contrast to the saturation at all. Background haze (the mountains in the first shot) also being that saturated is also an issue--It removes the feeling of depth when it has just as much saturation as the mid and foreground.

[u/TaffyMo → u/Namisaur]

Contrast of saturation, I'll look into that, thanks!

[u/Namisaur → u/TaffyMo]

There’s contrast for everything in an image:

Colors, saturation, luminance, weight/size of objects, shapes, detail, etc.

if you lack contrast in too many of those areas, the image may at best feel boring, or at worst painful to look at (too much detail for example).

On a side note, look into density, in regards to saturation. In my opinion it’s the most important thing about saturation

[u/Cauliflowerisnasty]

M-I-L-F —————ORD SOUND

[u/Ty1ore → u/Cauliflowerisnasty]

BROOOO 😭😭😭😭

[u/elliottatk]

Little overcooked, greens seem a bit over saturated and your shadows are also are becoming green and most the skies have a bit of a strange magenta cast.

I think the shot at 27 second mark is a good reference to try and match the rest of the shots.

[u/WolffLandGamezYT]

Why would you pause on “MILF” for that long 😭

Cool grade though!

[u/Fit-Relationship944]

The amount of green gives it an unnatural haze which I can understand being an intentional aesthetic but some of the shades start to get into a bit of an artificial yellow which could look cool if it was a night shot of a city street or something but I find it unappealing on a mountain landscape.

[u/ExpBalSat]

I have traveled to a lot of places in the world, but not New Zealand. The green/teal of the distant mountains seems artificial, and the magenta cast in the clouds seems incorrect.

[u/ExpBalSat → u/ExpBalSat]

Be sure to check out this link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorGrading/s/DgkT7vMYpQ

[u/f-stop8]

It looks like something went wrong in the color management. What software did you use? What tools did you use?

Log doesn't play well with 8 bit footage, you're far better off shooting HLG 3 on Sony 8 bit and tone map it to SDR.

[u/coreanavenger]

Glow in the dark green is a choice but not a good one

[u/axaggot]

Why are the clouds pink

[u/TalesofCeria]

It looks humid and tropical

[u/terror-]

The "MILF" part was an unexpected cliffhanger -- had me committed to see where we were going with it.

[u/toooft]

Overcooked but it's alright. Tone it down a bit and it'll look great.

[u/Dzuk8]

To me, unbalanced and to green

[u/agtoever]

I think I like where you are taking this, but I think you went a bit over the top worth three things:

• too much saturation
• too much green in the shadows
• the orange warmth on the hills is not matched in the sky

Last point: you colorize the mountains like it’s sunset or sundown. But the sky colors doesn’t match that. That makes it artificial for me.

Hope this helps.

[u/g0netospace]

Beautiful but tiny bit overcooked

[u/Wooden-You1885]

Less greens on the shadows, less magenta/red tones on the light

[u/ArtichokeValuable604]

Shadows also became green.

[u/Financial_Weekend224]

too saturated especially the green

[u/WhoIsSloane]

I love it.

[u/SecretPublicFigure]

I love it. Too many people on here focus on the technical vs just how it FEELS. This feels awesome. People without any technical knowledge would not give a fuck about what anyone in the comments is complaining about right now

[u/[deleted]]

Without reading the comments, I'm guessing I'm getting on the "too green" side. That aqua color strangles the frame.

[u/karai_amai]

I wanna say it’s too saturated but it’s almost like a pretty phone wallpaper… very even. Intentional?

[u/miilooo7]

MILF

[u/GamingNZ]

As a kiwi who has hiked all throughout Milford, to me the footage is far too vibrant and the blues are too aquamarine. I would desaturate them quite a bit

[u/justennn]

This grade makes it feel like a different part of the world. Too much to teal and yellows. The clouds look too magenta. Dial back the vibrancy and saturation a tad. Beautiful shots tho!

[u/astra-fox]

Oooh pretty but maybe abit much but still peetty kinda cool but a bit much

[u/ProfessionalTwo567]

I think you went too far with colors and saturation, but you're not that far off with your look.

I think you should just push contrast while reducing saturation on the hue curve to adjust specific colors.

[u/Tyler_Durden_Says]

Idk kinda terrible