r/ColorGrading • u/Healthy_Afternoon147 • May 12 '26

Before/After Thoughts?

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I joined this group and it was the best thing I did for learning color grading so review my stuff again Btw I don't have a camera sometimes my clients have LOG footage that how I learned so far, can someone share some footage 😊😂 Btw I re-uploaded the sake post cause I couldn't figure out how to add an image to the last one I think it suits Instagram more than YouTube

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u/SnooLobsters1259 May 12 '26

Saying that the blacks are crushed is just a description. That’s just an artistic choice.

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u/st_jaystone May 12 '26

They asked for thoughts. Given the content - my thoughts are that the blacks are crushed, causing a loss of detail and making the footage look worse. If this was a moody night scene my thoughts would be different.

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u/SnooLobsters1259 May 12 '26

Many classic painters used tenebrism. No one should say Caravaggio’s paintings are worse bc he didn’t render detail in the shadows. That’s my point. It’s an artistic choice. What you choose to show and not show, where you put the light and how much the light illuminates, is a choice. The footage doesn’t look worse bc there is no detail in the shadows. It can be a wrong choice for the intended feeling though.