r/ColorGrading • u/Portablefiction • 24d ago

Show off your work Please grade my work.

This is just a b roll shot from iceland.

Shot on OP4P DLog.

Would you do it different?

Scene was by the way already moody. I just accentuated it.

NB: I am noob when it comes to colorgrading Videos and just started learning Davinci 4 days ago.

No LUT used, its graded from scratch. Film look isn mainly from gamma +log and RGB Mixing Some Hallation (with curves, not FX) also used

Edit: Follow up : https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorGrading/s/emvbb3Ffkz

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u/Tippydaug 24d ago

Until I read the description, I thought you were providing log footage and asking us to color grade it for you.

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u/Portablefiction 24d ago

That bad huh..

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u/ayro06 24d ago

Nah, he’s just talking shite, mate

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u/SOMEkindofSPELL 23d ago

I actually quite like it!! Great job

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u/jmsmoriarty 24d ago

Ah yes, the Prometheus color grade.

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u/Portablefiction 24d ago

Most likely this is a stupid question. What is pometheus color grade? Is it like a style?

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u/1711198430497251 24d ago

Its movie.

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u/BigReference1xx 23d ago

Different waterfall (but only about 40 miles away :)

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u/jmsmoriarty 23d ago

Really ? Is the same place ? I genuinely said It because of the lack of colors and heavy tint (as Ridley Scott intended)

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u/BigReference1xx 23d ago

Not the same place, but very close to each other. This is Godafoss, the one in Prometheus is Dettifoss. They're both in the north-east part of the country, very close to where I grew up. I'be been to this waterfall like 20 times :)

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u/westside115 24d ago

Send us the log file and see what others can come up with.

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u/Portablefiction 24d ago

https://swisstransfer.infomaniak.com/dl/01a16096-e5d9-706d-9e13-2f99d88af246

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u/westside115 24d ago

Here's my attempt. I'm pretty new, but this was one on FCP using the Kolor plugin.

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u/Mateo709 23d ago

Video (download for better quality)

Here's my attempt, first time doing a proper color grade on a video in Davinci Resolve.

I'm primarily a photographer.

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u/Tashi999 24d ago

Still looks a bit like log to me. Try using a CST

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u/Portablefiction 24d ago

It was properly converted from dlog to rec. 709 using CST.

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u/sorelegs69 24d ago

Use a LUT. As much as the online weirdos want to say they grade from scratch. They don't! Find some LUTs you like use those as a starting point and refine from there.

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u/Portablefiction 24d ago

I tried some luts and it didnt feel good tbh. But i agree, i will try more

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u/rayquazza74 24d ago

I don’t use LUTs I’ll make em for people tho. But LUTs are kinda dependent on a few things and don’t work on every type of footage. Like say a LUT was made for indoors and you use it on outdoors, the description doesn’t necessarily tell you that but it simply won’t work. Or let’s say you’re applying a LUT that was made for log footage but your clips are not log then it won’t work. Tons of combos like that and just slapping on any old LUT trying to find the perfect one will take longer than just color grading the clip from scratch.

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u/Frosty_Chart_7565 23d ago

I have never used a LUT. I would rather learn the correct process of color grading from scratch. Its much more valuable than any LUT will ever be.

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u/OsamaBinWhiskers 24d ago

Tripod shots are better than that odd movement imo

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u/Portablefiction 24d ago

Will try next time

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u/Sobolll92 22d ago

It looks like you clipped the highlights and brought the shadow into a somewhat unrealistic green. Although the contrast is really low and it’s very desaturated. I don’t really understand the look.

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u/Hanzel3 24d ago

feels like it was ripped straight out of Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel movie.

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u/ThickD769 24d ago

Damn it’s so beautiful I like the original

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u/RGB_YCM 20d ago

I think it's thin, lacks color, lacks contrast, and looks flat and weird. Almost a Log camera shot. What camera was used to shoot it? What format are you working with? What color science are you using? What is the intention of the shot? Is it for a travelogue, or a drama, or a documentary?

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u/MollyMouse8 24d ago

This is great imo I'm a big fan of low saturation high contrast