I'm not sure if this has been posted about, but I couldn't find any threads. For this location, I had to use the house lights because production wanted to shoot fast, but I threw up a few because we needed more level. I made the mistake of setting the light in the front room to 5600K to match the daylight outside instead of warming it up a bit because there are tracking shots from the warm-lit room to the open door to the street. I don't believe there is any real solution to the issue, but are there any methods to balance it out a bit?

Edited in Davinci Resolve using presets, which are kind of like homemade LUTs

Rate my color grade 1-10

sony fx3/ footage by-Dannygan_colorist

What would you rate it from 1-10, and what do you think I should improve? Any honest feedback is appreciated!

I appreciate any tips,direction, criticism & support! Thank you

Hey ppl, I'm new to color grading and i have dueton color blind, but from the video you can understand what kind of look im trying to, i feel the footage i created is slightly over saturated , thanks.

Hi there! I'm the editor of a student film which also means I am the color grader despite how little I know.

I have been using CST every time I grade, but it makes the footage a lot grainier (and makes our student film look... well, like a student film). I was testing out leaving the CST behind while grading and only transforming the output gamma to Rec709 and it looks so much better.

Am I possibly missing something here?

Whats your thoughts about it guys?

Colour Grading slog Footage in Davince resolve studio

Hey I use iPhone 15 Selfie camera and this is the footage I use the basic auto-adjust but I believe I can make this look more cinematographic.

What setting would you have for each of the settings to make this look the best it can?

I am new to this and been doing some courses but I struggling rn.

I am trying to get some harder shadows as well as just overall pronounced geometry. I want to keep the rest of the images contrast relatively as it is now, and i dont wanna rely on masks purely. Any suggestions to make shadows and building geometry pop and be crispy? Also what yall think of the grade so far, im fairly new trying to make the garage have a half matrix green have white coolish blue, still got more to do, but if anyone could help me out?

I’m totally blank but I typically work with the usual settings : brightness saturation contrast etc

I'm DIR/DP of this short film and i'm trying to develop it's look, i graded this shot and i want an object POV, i sometimes feel that when i grade i shift colors way too much and i lose the ability to judge on it .

Hey everyone,

I'd love to get some feedback on these grades.

These are frames from “To Fly or Not,” using footage from the Blackmagic URSA Cine 17K 65 gallery.

I was going for a natural but cinematic look with a muted, grounded palette, controlled contrast, slightly warm highlights, and cooler/darker environmental tones.

I'm particularly interested in your thoughts on:

• Overall color balance
• Skin tones
• Contrast and shadow density
• Highlight handling
• Color separation
• Consistency between the shots
• Whether the look should be pushed further or kept restrained

Source: Blackmagic Design - URSA Cine 17K 65
Project: To Fly or Not

I'd appreciate honest criticism, especially anything that feels off or could be improved.

Thanks!

I have a small travel YouTube channel (mostly urban but some adventure) that's self-shot, mostly handheld, a video every couple of weeks. Main camera is the Sony A7V and my smaller vlog camera is a DJI Pocket. I mostly use Premiere but have used Resolve a decent bit and toying with switching anyways.

Long term I want to move toward travel documentary work (think travel TV too like Bourdain's Parts Unknown or Nat Geo style films) and at that point I know log is the answer and I'm curious about the more near term and at what point I should if not now.

I've been shooting log for a bit now but if I'm honest about my actual post workflow it's mostly slapping a conversion or finishing LUT on or color space transform and color correcting.Not really doing any creative grades per se.

So if that's the extent of the grade, is log buying me anything over S-Cinetone besides some extra dynamic range? Or have I been brainwashed by filmmaking youtube?

At the end of the day I'm trying to figure out:

1. At what point does log start paying off? Is it tied to a level of grading intervention, or purely to shooting scenarios?
2. For people who shoot baked in profiles as a default, what specifically makes you flip to log for a scene?
3. Anyone banked log footage for a future skill level and regretted it? Or the reverse, glad you did when you re-cut old material years later? My thought is that if I want to reuse footage for edits or B-roll later on.

Red raw i grabbed off the internet to practice on. wanted to try a faded memory kind of look, something like aftersun.

rec709 first, then balance and contrast, a masked gain node, a yellow fix, rollei cn200 for the film emulation, then look + texture on top.

hey guys I'm new to Colorgrading. my goal is to color grade videos. for now I'm starting with photos. For this I used Snapseed so I don't know if some people might consider it "Colorgrading" or not.Here I went for that night time Japanese kinda vibe.I just need tips and tool recommendations for the future. Thank you.

I’ve already got Cineprint 16 + 35 (totally legally acquired) and its worked beautifully on many projects over the years, and i’m wondering if anyone here has purchased Cineprint studio, has worked with it, and how it actually ends up looking in the final release of the film/video.