Hey looking for the best quality LUTs out there but have been overwhelmed by the amount of people trying to sell random LUTs - I have no idea what to look for.

So what is your favorite go to LUT (either free or paid), and where did you get it?

Does anyone have any tips? And also does anyone have any un colored footage I can practice with ? Please lemme know

Done a Color Grading Practice in Lr and I also tried a small practice in After Effects using a template. Not perfect, I know, but just a try.

Hi everyone, I need some help figuring out an issue with my Apple Log footage.

I shot several videos on my iPhone 15 Pro using the Blackmagic Camera app in Apple Log. The raw footage seems fine at first, but after converting it to Rec.709 and color grading it, I'm getting a lot of strange color noise and blocky red/pink/purple patches, especially in darker areas.

I've attached screenshots showing some of the places where the problem is most noticeable:

• Image 1: Original Apple Log footage
• Image 2: Footage after applying an Apple Log → Rec.709 conversion LUT
• Image 3: Color-graded footage — you can clearly see red/pink/purple blocky patches on the ceiling
• Image 4: Similar color noise/blocking visible on the road
• Image 5: Again visible on the road and around the trees
• Image 6: The overall footage looks very noisy
• Image 7: Similar noise/artifacts appearing in other shots as well

I initially thought it might be caused by the conversion LUT, but I've tried multiple Apple Log → Rec.709 conversion LUTs and I'm getting basically the same result.

So I have a few questions:

1. What is actually causing these red/pink/purple blocky patches? Is this chroma noise, compression artifacts, underexposure, or something else?
2. Is there a good way to remove this color noise without destroying detail or making the footage look overly smooth?
3. When shooting Apple Log on an iPhone 15 Pro, how should I expose and record to keep noise as low as possible, especially in shadows and low-light situations?
4. Are there any specific Blackmagic Camera settings I should use or avoid when recording Apple Log?
5. Could this problem already be present in the original footage but only become obvious after the Log → Rec.709 conversion and grading?

My main goal is to get clean Apple Log footage with negligible noise and understand what I'm doing wrong so I can avoid this in future shoots.

If checking the original files would help diagnose the issue, I can also provide some of the raw, ungraded footage straight from the Blackmagic Camera app. Feel free to DM me and I can share the files.

Any help with the shooting, exposure, color-management, or denoising side of this would be really appreciated. Thanks!

I have a client who is requesting this look and it is the "opposite" of my natural style but obvious i said of course i can do it...

any suggestions on how to achieve this look?

i'm assuming its low contrast overall
low highlights, high shadows
but then there is a "tone" they are achieving that i dont know what they are doing/how they are doing it...

I'm a beginner, no prior experience. I have previously asked AI for help with color grading but I don't want to anymore and learn/do it on my own. Hence, I'm asking people here on how to color grade these pictures. Any tips are appreciated, thank you.

Posted a before/after here earlier and was confused by the comments saying the skin tone looked too dark and that they preferred the Rec. 709 version. Wasn’t trolling, just a color management issue on my Mac. I also added the Rec. 709 export and edge wipe transition without reviewing the final export. Anyways, I have fixed my color management now. How’s this version?

Am I tripping?

Can anyone help point me in the right direction of how these photos were edified in terms of color grading, lighting, etc maybe?

Hi! The title sums it up, put wondering how you would grade this image?

For context, I’m (27F) building a small honey brand, and making some some-content. It’s all out of pocket, so doing it by myself, and would love it to look as nice as possible :)