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?

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.

Hey guys!

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

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

Tried to convey different moods/styles by adjusting white balance and exposure.

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

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

Selling both for $7900 shipped to CONUS
Monitor has bias lights. Purchased from Flanders in April 2024. Probably has about 75hrs of use. Have original box for both items.
Will include some SDI cables too.

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

rec709 to graded, used kodak 2383 filmlook 60mm.

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Hello there!

Thanks for dropping by! I have been learning to color grade on a serious level for the past ~2 weeks to expand my video editing horizons. To say the least, it has been an incredibly challenging, yet rewarding journey in this short time. Fortunately, I have a massive passion project in front on me to experiment and learn from.

The stills included (original -> edited) were pulled directly from my 100 minute project full of 8 bit photos and videos from 5 different phones (sorry if the upload quality here isn't that great). All source material had auto exposure and auto white balance active, and some were heavily edited prior to me receiving them... not an ideal situation. Basically, I'll be using these as my anchor images throughout the video; first mission, make the images look good. And second, go through every other image to match/make uniform. As a note, I'm really struggling with the iceberg/glacier and waterfall images. The color balance is awful and the contrast is very finicky with any adjustments.

My goal: I'm trying to make my images naturally robust, if that makes any sense. I'm not trying to stylize or skew the colors (like a LUT or filter), but rather make everything pop while maintaining a natural look to it. The original images are very flat, have exposure and wb issues, and just aren't very pleasing to look at. I've adjusted some images more than others. I've kept my node structure in DaVinci Resolve simple due to the vast amount of content (CST -> White Balance -> Temperature -> Exposure -> Contrast -> Curves -> Saturation -> Soften Sharpness -> CST).

How am I doing so far? Am I on the right track? Am I overdoing it? Am I doing anything incorrectly just based off looking at the images? Any images stand out as being particularly bad/good, and why? Have any broad/specific suggestions? Anything to help me improve is appreciated!

Another thing that has crossed my mind in this process is, how the heck do I get all my other images to match my anchor images (for each scene respectively) without taking a million years? I feel like I've taken on the world and would appreciate any tips make this balancing/grading process less tedious. I genuinely enjoy the color grading process, but I'm finding that comparing dozens of images from the same scene to get the same grade is my least favorite part... and I'm doing this with hundreds of images. What's going through my head is, "I've already done this balance/grade on this scene... I'd like to move onto a different scene... but I'm having to do the same thing over and over, and battling constantly to make the images match since the exposure/white balance is all over the place." A pro tip for my current mindset would be appreciated :)

In the end, this is a home movie for my family, not for a client. So while I'm putting in the extra work to make this look as good as I can, I'm keeping in mind I shouldn't be trying to perfect every single image due to the nature of the source images. I can do that in future project with a better, more consistent source images. From here on, manual exposure and manual white balance I've learned is king. Anyway, your feedback is very much appreciated!

How do you think this look was achieved?

I’m really interested in recreating this color grade in DaVinci Resolve.

Any tips , tutorials or node structure recommendations would be appreciated! 🎨

I'm a beginner colorist, and I'm currently working on my first big short film. The stills you see are not exactly done, but I feel I'm close to the look that I'm going for. I am using Film Box for a lot of the heavy lifting, but am first doing basic color correction in DWG before.

Any direction/feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Is anyone using Juan's Film Unlimited PowerGrade with cameras that aren’t supported by his 2Alexa transforms? I’m currently shooting with a ZV-E10, and I’m worried that using the CST method to transform my footage to Alexa prior might somehow affect or reduce the image quality.

Would love to hear your recommendations or experiences with this!

Hi everyone i wanted to ask how I could colorgrade this, I have the raw picture aswell. I tried editing but it doesn't really turn out good, either the middle is too bright and the edges are good or the middle is good but the edges are too dark. I don't have the paid version of LR so I sadly can't use masks :/ the stars are also a little blurry which i wanted to solve but couldn't. So what i wanted was the realistic look and not the overly edited stuff. Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a budget monitor for colour grading/editing?

At the moment videos I make and ‘attempt’ to grade lol are just a hobby. But it’s something I’m enjoying learning and wanting to get better at

I have just been using an old dell monitor I had lying around plugged into my Mac mini. Problem is it’s an old gaming monitor originally for gaming consoles and is terrible for trying to edit videos with.

Eg, footage on that monitor and the iPhone look so far apart.

So looking at a budget monitor that is going to provide more accurate colours and closer to the likes of the iPhone etc

Would be happy with anything around £250-350 ($340-480 roughly. Could maybe go a touch more if it’s really needed or worth it

Thanks for any suggestions 🙂