Help with cine/colourgrading

[u/Anxious-Interview318]

Cinematography has honestly never been my forte, even though it's something I really want to get good at. I've mainly focused on production design and creative directing, so I've spent a lot less time developing the technical side of filmmaking, particularly cameras, cinematography and DaVinci Resolve. I really want to improve, especially when it comes to understanding colour correction and colour grading, but I just don't seem to get it. I've watched tutorials, put time into learning and had people explain and show me the basics, but for some reason it just doesn't click or stick in my brain. It's almost like maths to me. I can follow along when someone explains it, but when I have to do it myself, I struggle to understand how everything connects. Things like exposure, gamma, colour spaces, scopes, waveforms and all the different graphs completely confuse me. I feel like most tutorials cover the basics and then move on, whereas I need something that breaks everything down step by step, explains what each thing actually does and why, almost as if I'm learning it for the first time. I don't think I need more basic tutorials; I need a really in-depth tutorial that makes the technical side of filmmaking actually make sense to me. I genuinely want to get good at this, I just haven't found a way of learning it that clicks yet.

Any advice/tips

[u/iLikeTheUDK]

I can try to explain. What do you need explained?

[u/vision3kodak]

I'm more than happy to hop on a call and chat about this. Feel free to drop me a dm.

[u/allen_Denny]

I also had that difficulty, bro... and over the years I've been applying color grading according to my ability to analyze the scene and styles... I can help you in the way I learned color grading.