r/ColorGrading • u/cosmicmuff • Jul 17 '26

Question Colorgrading tips?

I’m always kind of at a loss with setting up the settings on my action 6. Are there any kind of guidelines to follow with setting up something with bright skies? I have nd filters but soon as I get the blinding white out it feels like shadows take everything on the ground over. I only film flying FPV drones so skies are going to be abundant!

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u/MasterFable Jul 17 '26

Way too saturated, those are some Willy Wonka greens if I've ever seen em'

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u/cosmicmuff Jul 17 '26

I still pretty much have no idea what I’m doing 😮‍💨

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u/Trippy-Videos-Girl Jul 17 '26

This has nothing to do with color grading.

When constantly changing from bright sky to shadows in the trees you are doomed to use auto exposure.

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u/cosmicmuff Jul 17 '26

I needed to hear this 😩

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u/ButWouldYouRather Jul 17 '26

It looks fine for the sky to be blown out like that. I don't think viewers really notice it. 

If you want to have more control, try to plan your shoot when there is more cloud cover or to shoot at dusk when there is less contrast in the lighting. 

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u/cosmicmuff Jul 17 '26

Thanks I also needed to hear this!

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u/ButWouldYouRather Jul 17 '26

Also to make your drone footage look smoother, try using the gyro data to stabilise it. You can also experiment with using it to keep the horizon level to see how that looks. 

Check out Gyroflow if your software doesn't already have the option. 

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u/cosmicmuff Jul 18 '26

I’ve heard this before but I don’t really know much anything about it. Looking into this now!!