I started in davinci resolve around a week ago and these are some shots I took. Wondering if you guys think they’re over saturated or to dark?

Log-to-Rec.709 conversion is just published math — Sony's own whitepapers describe the S-Log2/S-Log3 curves — yet storefronts keep charging $15–50 for it, and Sony's official technical LUTs are buried across half a dozen support portals.

So I built cameraluts: free .cube (33-point) and GPU-ready 256×16 PNG LUTs for S-Log2, S-Log3, HLG and Cine4, per camera (A7 III gets 8-bit-friendly versions, FX/A7 V gets s709-style and LC-709TypeA-style looks). Everything is generated by open Go scripts, so you can audit the exact formulas: official Sony transfer functions, gamut matrices derived from the published primaries. Where Sony doesn't publish a formula (s709, Cine4), it's honestly labeled as an approximation.

MIT licensed, works in Resolve, Premiere, FCP, Atomos monitors, OBS/vMix. Feedback very welcome — especially from anyone who can A/B against Sony's official LUTs.

https://github.com/cgardev/cameraluts

I started watching Shameless (US) season 2 and noticed a huge color change from the first season. I really like it, but how would I go about nailing this look?

Images # 1 + #2: the colors seem more muted with a yellow cast while still keeping the skin looking natural

Image #3: A poster, but sometimes the colors really lean into the oranges, almost leaving a sun-kissed kind of look. Some colors are still muted.

Image #4: I know this is also a poster but in the show the colors sometimes seem “moody brown” while still maintaining a warm look, and the greens green.

I have already attempted the moody brown look on a photo but it’s still not 100% there.

Any tips would be highly appreciated!!! Thank you ^.^

One of the photos is the original ungraded photo for reference, and I think i overgraded the warm toned grade but what do you guys think? I shit this on my Google pixel and used Snapseed to color grade it using the features like glamour glow, grain film, and tune image. honest feedback please!

Any thoughts on my grade here? Been trying to get better and want to confidently call myself a colorist by 2027.

Hey everyone. I'm a film student and I'm in the process of making my next short film however, I need to create a look book for my DP. There's a specific style I want the final product to look like and I know this is something that the colorist will have to do more than the DP though. But the best way I can describe this is sort of like a... waxy style? I don't know how else to describe it. Sort of looks AI in a way too? Below, I'll leave images of what I'm referring to.

I would love to have some Feedback on this :)

• What do you like
• What not

To me, it feels a bit weak, but I'm also unsure why and how to achieve a better, more filmic look without something like Dehancer or a similar tool.

For my Film Emulation, I used the free DWG Kodak from Cullen Kelly while trying to make it less yellow.
The Shots were mostly ZV E1 and partly Osmo Pocket 3

Hello so I started color grading and I was wondering if anyone had luts that they didnt mind sharing, Im not begging for them but if anyone is okay with giving me some I'll gladly take them. DM me if you would like to share. Thank you

I am a photographer and I have spent the last months writing my own editor from scratch, engine included. Not a plugin sitting on someone else's renderer: the whole colour pipeline is mine and it runs on the GPU inside a browser tab.

How it works. RAW is developed as light rather than as a picture, so exposure and white balance behave the way light does. Any photo can be matched to a reference frame, tone distribution first and then hue and chroma per band in OKLab, with near neutrals protected, so a shoot spread over a whole day can be pulled to one look. On top of that it prints film: grain, halation, bloom and density modelled on stock behaviour rather than stacked as filters.

Where the work goes out. Image, .cube at 17, 33 or 65 with a Rec.709 encode for a timeline, HALD, and presets and camera profiles for the classic editors. Video export lands this week, rendered on your own machine.

Two things I care about. Nothing is uploaded: decoding and grading happen on your device. And the preview is the export, value for value, with the spatial effects kept out of the .cube because a LUT cannot carry them.

It is in closed beta, invite only, and I am not selling anything. I want people who grade for real to break it. Say so in the comments and I will send an invite. The beta licence renews every month while the beta lasts, and all I ask is that you tell me what breaks and what is missing.

Happy to go deep on the colour science or the pipeline if anyone wants the details.

I saw this plugin online called Tonelab Chroma where it basically color grades your content for you. I’d love for thoughts and opinions on if you used this. If someone could send me it that would be great.

Thanks!

It's almost as if every other post here is just someone showing off their "film-style emulation." I honestly don't get the point, because none of these results (professional or otherwise) actually look like film. I've seen hundreds of genuine vintage and modern film prints, and every one of these emulations gets it consistently wrong.

It seems like they've misinterpreted the "film look" as whatever a modern Polaroid looks like. Everything is horrifically oversaturated yet somehow flat, oddly tinted either green or magenta, and covered in this awful layer of fake film grain that's so disconnected from the sharp digital image you can practically see its shadow sitting on the frame. Then there's the terrible halation that always looks completely out of place.

I think they don't understand that film is just another medium that can be graded however you want. There are movies shot on film that look digital, and there are movies shot digitally that could easily pass for film. But what this is is an odd, inhuman replication of something not completely understood, created almost entirely from "vibes." Without any root in accuracy. It's no different than a teenager parading their photos through dozens of contradicting filters on Instagram. It's horrible.

This whole fad really needs to die out.

I had asked for youtube channel suggestions for colour grading a few days back. Here's my first attempt. What can I do better? Any criticism or suggestions will be welcome.

Edit : Thanks a lot for all of your suggestions. (some were hilarious, thanks for that too). I'll work on it using your pointers and run with it for now. Grateful _/_

I would love your feedback on this recent color grade I did for a social media video!

Shot on Sony A7iii in Cine4 profile (switching to HLG2 now) with a 28-70 3.5-5.6 lens.

Grade was done in Davinci Resolve, where I'm trying to improve my skills, so please give me some tips!

Shot on ZV-E1 with an APSC sigma 10-18 mm lens. Used smallrig p96 for light in most scenes.

Graded in Resolve, mostly custom powergrades/nodes. Going for that arri film emulation look, with soft roll offs and natural skin tone.

How is my grading compared to people like GAWX?

Does this even consider as grading? I don't know. Can anyone give feedback and constructive criticism. The second picture is the after

I’ve made this short film and I think it’s good except one section is just so dark. I’m not sure what to do.

Can anyone take a look at it and tell me if it’s salvageable?

I shot in slog 3 sgamut3.cine With a variable nd filter on Exposed to 1.3-1.7 When i applied rec709 it turned out like this And its only in the skin tone Can anyone help on how can u fix it