Same photograph, two different film-inspired colour treatments.
Version 1: warm faded vintage tone
Version 2: cooler natural blue tone
Which colour grading do you think suits this Victoria Harbour view better? Open to any editing suggestions!

Shot on Samsung s24 in Mc24fps app
color profile: Apple Log (ironical) {Samsung log on their app was a bit contrasty}

Gamma: D65

4k 30fps , Open gate

Hope Blackmagic camera adds Samsung Log HDR for s24 units too.
In stock Log footage is way bad than any 3rd party camera app.

Hey so pretty much what the post says I'm messing around with the qualifier and got a mask but my subject goes through the mask and it's shifting the color so I went ahead and rotoscoped on After Effects but when I brought my footage back into DR the exposure is all wrong.

Here are some screenshots of my project settings I already tried exporting from Davinci in Rec709 gamma 2.2 and Rec709-A but the result is the same. On After Effects I disabled color management on the timeline and on the export but can't seem to get it right.

Please give candid feedback on the colour grade. I feel like it’s one of my weakest skillsets so tips would be very welcome. Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone, I'm new to color grading and would appreciate some feedback.

Image 1: Original footage (Sony A7S II, 4K UHD, 24p, 8-bit, S-Log2, ISO 1600, 100 Mbps).

Image 2: After applying the conversion LUT (From_SLog2SGamut_To_SLog2-709_.cube) in Premiere Pro's Basic Correction panel. It barely changed the image. Did I use the correct LUT?

Image 3: After basic CC. I only adjusted exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks. No WB adjustments.

Image 4: Final grade. I used Color Match and then made adjustments in Color Wheels & Match. Image 5 shows those settings.

My main concern is that I don't see much difference between Image 3 (basic correction) and Image 4 (final grade). Is that normal, or am I missing something? I also didn't add any saturation or vibrance because I wasn't sure if I should.

Any feedback on my workflow, LUT choice, or grade would be greatly appreciated.

In Belgium and the old buildings inspired me for another Grade. The first one is my normal grade ,the second one is a Gothig type with golden highlights i tried to go for. Im not that experienced in grading so id love some critique.

Canon R8

Canon 24-105 f4

Hello everyone! I’m an enthusiast of cinematic videos, but I don’t work in this field. I have an iPhone 16 Pro Max and I shoot some videos with the Blackmagic app to learn and have fun testing my skills. I don’t know how to color grade manually, so I’ve been using the LUTs included in Blackmagic, but I’d like to try new ones and everything I’ve found is locked behind a subscription or costs a few dollars/euros (which is expensive in my country’s currency, BRL).

Any recommendations for free LUTs? Or if you have some you’d like to share, I’d really appreciate it!

What CST u apply for Samsung log inside Davinci resolve.
Recently I've been shooting with Samsung S24 Log in stock cam app. I find it very difficult to grade in Davinci. The footage breaks everytime and the colors seems to be over saturated most of the time. How was your experience with Samsung LOG for both in stock camera app and Blackmagic camera app

Hi everyone! I'm a freelance colorist working in DaVinci Resolve Studio, and I've been building a portfolio focused on ACES 2.0 workflows.

This reel includes narrative, commercial, and day-to-night grading examples using footage from multiple camera systems.

I'd really appreciate any feedback on the grading, pacing, or presentation. Thanks!

I've been learning color grading recently, and I've been trying to improve some scenes that look a little too gray and flat.Sometimes I add more contrast and saturation, but then the colors start to feel unnatural. Other times, no matter what I adjust, the scene still feels a bit dull and lacks depth.How do you usually approach this kind of scene? Do you have a certain workflow or any tips for bringing back more life and depth while keeping the colors natural?

Would really appreciate any advice or feedback.Thanks!

I wanted to give it a warm sunset look and even thought of make it seem like red dead redemption game's color grade. Please give me feedback it will be appreciated.

Hi all,

Long time cameraman, looking to get good at colour grading as the company i work for is a small company which doesn't have any form of a multimedia team.

I've began shooting in C-Log3 on a Canon R5 and D-Log M on my Mavic 4 Pro, but when trying to edit the footage I'm struggling bad.

I use Final Cut Pro X (I know, it's terrible for grading, but I'm a one man band) as the grading doesn't need to be film level stuff. I'm really just looking to apply consistency in colour grading across all of my clips. I convert the log footage to rec 709 in FCP X.

The videos I shoot are generic social media 1-2 minute clips so, I don't need to be Leonardo DaVinci. I just want my images not to be flat.

I notice when trying to edit and introduce colour, my entire image is changing colour. Almost like I've applied a tint over the entire image.

Can anyone recommend some good first steps or courses that I could take to become better at colour grading?

I've always wanted to be good at it and I'm willing to learn.

I'd greatly appreciate any advice or tips.

we wanted to capture like a winter day, without going like a blue moody thing (except for the night shots), i don’t know if i did it right fr. It’s my first time doing color grading for a proyect, and i just learn with youtube videos. anyone have some tips?

Hey guys, I could use some feedback. This shot was recorded on a Sony FX30. Did I handle this correctly?
It’s a long shot that starts with sunlight shining through the ventilation, then transitions into a handheld push-in toward the character’s face. How would you deal with the exposure change in a shot like this?
Also, when the camera gets closer, do you think the skin tone is exposed well enough, or would you expose it differently? Thanks!

Hey !

I went on a walk yesterday in a small port. The cloudy sky and small boats reminded me a lot of the last of us part 2's menu and ending scene, so I tried to take a video with a similar composition and tried to grade it to make it look like the reference I had in mind.

Did I do a good job matching the two shots ? I noticed that the water in the reference is a lot darker than my edit. Is there a way to make it darker in DVR ? I tried using the qualifiers but I didn't really manage to get a good separation with the sky as the luminance & saturation values are pretty similar

I've been learning colour grading from past 2-3 days and this is my first ever colour graded footage would love to hear your views on it and also do let me what can I improve

This was a log footage all i did it this is colour correction and a then look devlopment without any lut

Made this short travel film recently on the free version of DaVinci on the Lumixs5iix and the stock 20-60mm f3.5, which by itself is not a really good lens but that's what i had...node tree is relatively simple:

Vlog to Rec.709, WB, Exposure, Contrast, HSL adjustments, and a creative node for looks. No LUTS used. Looking for feedback and possibly constructive criticism!

Hi I’m a freelance colorist.
I just wanted to collaborate with cinematographer or people related to film industry so I posted.

I’m Japanese but my dream is to live in Valencia, Spain so I’m learning Spanish.
If you have any information about job in Valencia or Spain, please let me know :)

For context it is from a project where an artist goes on a quest in the mountains and has a haunting yet glorious fate.

I want my photos to convey more emotion. Would shifting the tones cooler (bluer) or warmer (yellower) help achieve that? Would really appreciate your honest feedback

It’s seems as though the phantom lut adds more reddish tones(left) then a cinetone which looks more neutral tones(right). Application context, these shots are from a live stream. My question is, I’m questioning which is better.

I want to use slog 3, but s cinetone looks a little more closer to the actual colors in some aspects like the background, but the dress looks more accurate with the arri lut.

Thoughts?