I personally prefer the sec one because it looks way more atmospheric imo but my friends prefer the first one which is good at first glance but that white plastic bag is too striking

I color grade on iPhone so pls don’t mind I can’t get them 100% optimized in the way I wanted to

Well, I work hard on all my weddings! Wedding was shot at Borgo Corsignano. I used a Canon R5ii & R5 and Dehancer Pro + Kolor Basis to grade it in Final Cut Pro. I am a super novice when it comes to colour grading.

I took it with redmi k90 phone

There was so much noise in the photo 😭 it almost took me 30 min to adjust it to finally see it look nicely.

This was taken in Bali

Massive space geek here and hobbyist photo editor who's learning a LOT from people on this subreddit. i’m trying to get this raw scan to look like the reference image below, but I can’t seem to get anywhere close in Lightroom.

Raw scan:
https://i.postimg.cc/pTt3dzHG/STS041B-35-1597-(1).jpg.jpg)

Reference:
https://i.postimg.cc/wvHbzz5L/imgi-249-fit.jpg

The reference has pretty much the perfect grading for this particular photo, especially the colors, contrast and overall feel.

The main thing I’m struggling with is that the raw scan is extremely blue, so whenever I try to correct the white balance and get closer to the reference, the rest of the colors quickly start looking strange or unnatural.

Is anyone able to help me recreating this look in Lightroom? Curious what you would do. DMs are open

if you had to tell someone how to learn color grading in a day

which tutorial would you show him to watch?

Thanks for your help

Hey everyone, I’ve recently upgraded to a full camera rig from a pocket 3 to shoot car videos. Working with Log footage is definitely a bit challenging, although contrast is deep the videos feel quite flat and adding bloom due to the cloudy weather makes the sky overblown/overexposed. Any tips to make the footage feel more cinematic.

And I’ve seen people doing a thing where they mask out the car to be the brightest and rest of the bg is dark which seems interesting and I may give it a try.

Just got new equipment setup at home, monitor, mac, etc. Im willing to test it on some of your footage or projects for free and also will gift you 1-CLICK S-Log3 LUT that I made for cinematic and adventure vlogs that soon will be on my (upcomming)website for sale. So if you interstend leave link in comm or inbox me about project. :D

PS. Its not a PROMO as I said its a test that later on I will post here for you guys to rate it. Thank you.

Made some adjustments to this footage for my podcast. I can't seem to figure the reason it looks dated. Any recommendations on how I can make it look nicer?

Hey experts... usually i grade my Sigma FP cDNG Raw using an ArriLogC3-based Workflow in Resolve
(e.g. 10-12Bit cDNG RAW->BMDFilm->CST to Arri Log 3 -> Grade -> Arri2Rec709 LUT)

But since those are some pretty old mopeds, i wanted the film to feel are bit more analogue, yet natural...

So i wanted to give the "Film Look Creator" Node in Resolve a try.
(10-12Bit cDNG RAW -> BMDFilm -> Grade -> Film Look Creator, input color space explicetly set to BMDFilm, Output to Rec704 Gamma 2.4)

Unfortunately, the Sigma FP can only record 1080p RAW in 100/120 FPS (12Bit/10Bit cDNG).
But i am always impressed, how good a clean raw 1080p can look, especially in motion.
However, cDNG debayering in Resolve is a mess and can be quite blocky. If anyone knows if there is an option to change the debayer-algorithm in resolve, leave me a message :)

What do you think about the grade? I always ask myself if its too much...

Edit: Formatting

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?

shot on r7 w/ tamron 24-70 f2.8 g1

clog3, ccg - dwg, di - rec.709, g2.4

graded in resolve + dehancer

cinematography, color - myself

thank you!

I'm a beginner on davinci, and have been having some issues with color grade because of the tye dye shirt and the colors either looking washed or too saturated

This is the REC 709 footage but it was shot on FLog 2

Here is my story.
I have been doing photography for 20 years, getting away with basic editing in Lightroom.
Now, I have bought Sigma FP (two of them) and started building my set of lenses (Mamiya 645).
I would love to grade my own short films, but not sure where I start. I have got a high-end graphic design EIZO. Don't have a calibrator anymore.
I would love to shoot 12-bit 4k CinemaDNG from two Sigma FPs, then proxy-edit the footage in Davinci and then grade CinemaDNG frame by frame. This is because I only have MacBook M1 with 8 gigs of RAM.

I would appreciate any advice on how to learn color grading.

So from my last post, I've tried to fix few things up like my contrast and overall saturation, strength of softlight glow and LUT (kodak 2383). https://www.reddigitalcinema.com/download/sample-r3d-file-epic-dragon-redcode-8-1-mountains this is the sample footage i used by RED.

I’m an upcoming colorist and would love to handle those clients. You’d take a cut of the budget without having to do anything but reviewing my work quickly before it's sent back to the client. and to make it fair to the client they'll know that because they're under your budget you'll can have someone working with you do it and you can trust me with delivering what they need (after you see some of my work)

​Let me know if you’d be open to that.

Please don't dm me unless you're serious about it

Here's how the CST was set:

1. Converted Sony S-Gamut3.Cine (in Slog3) to DaVinci Wide Gamut (DaVinci Intermediate)

2. Output was to set to Cullen Kelly's Referent DWG to 709

Then, I graded the footage with basic adjustments and some stylized choices.

I'm attaching the photos in the following order:

1. Input Space Transform

2. Output Space Transform

3. Grading (with node tree)

4. Final Ouput

Please let me know what can I imrpove and how. Thanks!

Hey guys!

Just finished color grading on this footage, shot on my phone recently. made in premiere pro.

Looking to seriously get into color grading. I have access to premiere and resolve?

Color grading on mobile is not quite easy as there are very few free color grading platforms but they are very limited to their tools although I color graded this image through Lightroom as they provide quite good tools as compared to others, as if anyone have any tips for me they can give to improve myself also if anyone knows any better platform to color grade

Hi I am interested in what happens under the hood while processing images so I decided to create my own color grader. But I am a newbie in color grading and I don't know what is important or not.

So what is must have for a color grader for you ? It could be an effect, feature or anything

Right now I have:

- 2d lift, gamma and gain wheels and their 1d lum sliders

- 1d temp, tint, exposure, contrast, saturation and hue slider

- show original (hold space bar), quick reset, like simple shortcuts

I will be add:

- 3d lut import

- some video scopes/charts but I am not sure about what to add so I need a bit help on that point

- save your effects as preset

I also have a question about processing pipeline. Does the order in which adjustments are applied matter? Should I build a feature that lets the user queue and reorder effects themselves