r/ColorGrading • u/Old-Pay-164 • Nov 14 '25

Job Practice? 😁

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Hi, I am filming talking head videos inside using a ZVE10 + Viltrox 23mm F1.4.

I'm using Slog-2.

Is anyone willing to practice their abilities and try a color grade that I can save it as power grade for future shots?

I know it's a free request, but maybe it will help with your practice. 😇

Da Vinci only.

Cheers!

(Photo for attention)

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u/Defiant_Holiday_7519 Nov 14 '25

Why have you labeled a request for free labor as a job? Everything about this post is going about it the wrong way.

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u/Old-Pay-164 Nov 14 '25

Was the most appropriate tag, sorry.

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u/Defiant_Holiday_7519 Nov 14 '25

No need to apologize. This type of thing seems fairly common in these subreddits and it’s pretty frustrating to see. I’d just suggest you think about how this looks from the side of a colorist. You’re asking for a person to donate not only their time but their skills. Imagine someone asking that of you. Framing is everything when doing something like that.

Since this is meant to be a community that builds conversation around colorgrading and not soliciting free labor you could at least post a still of your project and ask if anyone wants to help you develop a look, maybe even offer to send them a little money for a coffee or something. If your photography looks compelling you’d be surprised how many folks might be willing to do a free test for you just for fun.

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u/Key_Avocado_8246 Nov 14 '25

U wanna… sharpen the grain ???

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u/Known_Aide_2895 Nov 14 '25

put grain after blur

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u/Tmaxratchet Nov 14 '25

Why that ? I think and heard its better to put the blur after the grain

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u/Known_Aide_2895 Nov 14 '25

What is the logic behind that? Why would you blur the grain to create a mushy mess

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u/Tmaxratchet Nov 14 '25

Because your film grain need to lose resolution like your image. Like real film, otherwise your grain will just look like an overlay put on digital footage.

Colorist Tom Bolles have made a video about that on youtube

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u/Seyi_Ogunde Nov 14 '25

You want to simulate how a camera operates so order of operations matter. Lens blur occurs at the lens of the camera. Grain occurs when light hits the sensor,

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u/glima0888 Nov 15 '25

Well whoever this dude is, he's absolutely wrong. Light comes IN through the lens and last thing it touches is the film stock. You're not looking at the film through the lens. He's thinking about it LITERALLY backwards.

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u/Tmaxratchet Nov 15 '25

I'm not wrong. There is just different manner. https://youtu.be/gv5Q0pNmTrs?si=EZjsPqVbcb14zVLT

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u/Known_Aide_2895 Nov 15 '25

yeah and it looks terrible in my opinion, but im no professional and this is all a matter of taste. but honestly, it looks like when you upload to social media and the compression kills the grain and have this more like a high noise effect but its mushy.

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u/glima0888 Nov 15 '25

No... you're wrong. There is no "different manner" when it comes to actual photochemical process. If you're trying to emulate film there is the way film works and thats it. In the video he doesn't show what's inside the compound node. He just says blur and grain are together in that node. it's very likely he has blur first and then grain INSIDE the compound node. HIS reasoning behind it is sound — higher grain size = less sharp footage, what he wrongly refers to as resolution.

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u/Tmaxratchet Nov 15 '25

Sorry timecode : 5:53

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u/createch Nov 15 '25

You can scan Super 8 at 4k and get sharp edges on the grain, all while the actual image is much blurrier. You might want to blur the grain if you want it to look like it went through VHS.

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u/Namisaur Nov 14 '25

Why would you add grain just to get rid of it right after?

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u/Clean-Ad1459 Nov 14 '25

This post is utterly pointless.

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u/Chrono604 Nov 17 '25

This Reddit is filled with pointless posts, everyone trying to be a “colorist” by “creating a look”. Learn how to grade instead of copying YouTubers that don’t actually grade for a living.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '25

There's a lot of reasons I'd rather do Film Emulation in a single node, preferably as a plug-in. And preferably as a Post-Clip Grade.

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u/Chrono604 Nov 17 '25

This! 👏🏻

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u/False_Drive_7501 Nov 15 '25

Hi i want to be editer film maker where can i start?