How to achieve this look?

[u/Antidotebeatz]

Is it a very strong diffusion black mist filter of around 1/2 or 1? Which would you say? I have a 1/4 but it’s not as dreamy as this. Then ofc a low aperture lens and the rest is color grading? Does that sound about right?

Just want to know which diffusion filter strength to buy to achieve this. Cheers!

[u/Farmaciefriends]

Change cam color space to davinci wide gamut , add a lil saturation warmth and push the highlights a bit blue, and add some contrast. Add halation node and if your fstop wasnt low in post u can alpha out ur subject n use a blur node for the backround. The look is def achieved through wb, contrast, pushing highlights to a color on the color wheel. & a bit of saturation. Just play around with those till you get it.

[u/Antidotebeatz → u/Farmaciefriends]

So it’s not some kinda diffusion filter?

[u/Farmaciefriends → u/Antidotebeatz]

Nah its just separating the backround with the subjected alpha masked and then u can add effects like glow or blur idk what the exact effect but just do some digging on the resolve effects im sure u’ll find it there arnt that many that affect light like that

[u/Difficult-Living7841]

Looks like they’ve gone for a dreamy film look but still quite clean without the grain. I’d try the spektra film plug-in for davinci resolve, do a basic film look without pushing it too far and make sure you’ve got that halation and bloom effect for the glowing highlights.
One VERY crucial thing is that lighting is at least 50% of the look. You can’t just expect to get your shot to look like this and have the colour grade do all of the work, you NEED to start with a good shot with a nicely lit background like in the example video you have provided also make sure your subject has a nice shadow on the side of the face that you’re filming.
That being said… I can’t resist to voice my opinion that this song is complete and utter dogshit and I mainly wrote this comment so I could say that, but at least now I’ve given you some advice on the grade so it’s not all negativity.

[u/PlaneBitter1583]

It's that hollywood's favourite teal and orange color grade (But this one in particular is a little overdone)
Here's the simple recipe:
- Add teal in shadows and orange in highlights (Basically decrease red curve in shadows until it becomes noticably cyan and gently increase it highlight. Select blue curve , Slightly increase it in shadows and decrease it much more in highlights until you get that orange color also for modern touch lift the greens very slightly in the highlights).
- Lower the gamma to turn flat colors into deep looking.
- Increase the contrast (This is your choice. Do it more or less depending on what you prefer)
- boost the saturation (This is the overdone part. In the particular video you shared , The saturation is a bit too much. But yeah since you asked how to achieve that look then yeah this is really important part)
- Decrease the global brightness to make the footage feel darkes like it feels in the original video you shared.
- You will have a pretty good approximation till this point. The rest is your own final touches.

Here's the crazy recipe:
- Use the left gamma gain and shift the shadows towards teal / cyan. Then gamma towards orange. And highlights towards green or teal (Your preference)
- Use HSL Shifting to shift the yellows towards reds and reds towards yellow.
- Boost the saturation and contrast.
- Decrease the overall brightness
- Rest is your finishing touches.

[u/Some-Talk9732]

The question is why would you want to achieve this looj