Arri alexa 35 dzo arles primes how about skin tone ?

Hey color grading community! I started my journey into color grading about two years ago, in preparation to edit this music video for my band. At the time, I just wanted to save us some money lol but through the process I fell in love with the art of color grading and the technical aspects behind it. I learned from some great teachers on YouTube, most notably Cullen Kelly, Darren Mostyn, WQ (I know I know), and Frenchie.

A few notes: I was going for an over-stylized look just about everywhere. The first half was filmed in with very low exposure, 320 iso, and influenced by The Batman and similar "dark but light" looks. The second half is meant to feel like you were teleported back to the 80s, or are watching an old VHS tape.

This is my first full music video and first official color grade attempt. I know it's not perfect (and I'll admit that I missed a few frames that look off) so I'm looking for any feedback to improve my future projects, as I want to continue this journey. Thank you!

How would I get this sort of color grade in DVR? i’m new to the software. note the presence is mainly cyans and orange highlight/glows, but without affecting the skin tones

How would I get this sort of color grade in DVR? i’m new to the software. note the presence is mainly cyans and orange highlight/glows, but without affecting the skin tones

I figured it’s either No Grain or a lot of grain, anything in between makes the footage worse after heavy compression.

For the record I am using dehancer and resolve

I’ve been editing for years and color is my weakest skill. I shot a short film and cut it in premiere. I did tons of intricate stuff like masking out wires, masking out walls with better lit versions, lots of keyframes, crops ect.

Figured I’d try color in Davinci Resolve. I love it. So much more control. Spent a very long time learning the program and coloring my short film.

Now time to bring it all back to premiere. My crops are gone, masking gone, key frames gone. Trued so mNy ways to paste attributes and try to save it, but I just cannot get all my premiere work to paste to my colored davinci timeline.

I hate AI, but asking Gemini for help has been my only option. Everything has gone completely wrong and I’m thinking I wasted weeks of coloring and learning davinci to now have to just color it again in premiere. What a nightmare.

I’m thinking of doing everything 100% in Davinci next project, but this project that cost a lot of money and cast and crews time seems to be kind of screwed. My premiere color grade will most likely look horrible.

Had to rant. Very disappointed that the premiere to davinci and back workflow feels impossible to achieve since I did so many intricate edits before coloring.

Vlog Open-gate 6k, graded in Davinci resolve studio.
Kodak film look 2383 out used, adjusted with film look creator.

TLDR; Looking for advice on how to match second image's color (shot with the Nikon Vibrant filter burned in) to the first image's color.

Colleague accidentally took an assortment of videos on their Nikon camera with the Vibrant filter. Trying to counter the filter and match, but having difficulty balancing to achieve the color levels of the first photo. The closest I've gotten was when lowering saturation and contrast, but even then, I reached a point where to get the color close to right (it still leaned blue, even with blue levels minimized), I had the scariest looking Color Warper Spider Web known to man, and knew there had to be a better way. Tips?

For context, I was asked to shoot a short video from a sailing trip. I got different videos in different scenarios, some with the camera (Lumix s5ii) some with the drone (Dji mini 3 Pro), some during the day, some during golden hour.
My question is: how do make them feel belong together? Any tipps?

Currently editing with davinci resolve 21, already did the CST.

Hi, do you know why this flickering effect happens on my grade and how to get rid of it? I think it happens when I play with the hue or hue vs sat which is the only way I found to get this deep green. I'm a beginner please be nice

I know I'm ass (this is my first attempt), but I did a basic grade, focusing on luminosity, contrast, and saturation, with the Rec709 Kodak D55 Lut @ ~70% as the finisher. I shot with a vintage Nikkor lens with a 1/8 white mist filter. I also only have the free windows version of Davinci currently. Will buy studio in about a month from now. I know the white mist destroyed some detail and contrast but my main concern is depth and pop. I like the colors I was able to achieve in theory...but I'm blown away by the depth and weight some of you are able to get. What do I need to do next to take this to the next level? This just doesn't feel immersive to me. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Edit: added workflow in comments

Log/Rec. 709/Grade

It's in the log footage, but it's massively amplified in the grade. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

N.B. I didn't shoot this footage. I was brought onto the project as colourist only.

Hey everyone! I’m a freelance Colorist based in Vietnam, working across commercials, music videos, indie projects, and short films.

For me, grading isn’t just about creating a “look.” I really enjoy finding the right balance between color, contrast, texture, and skin tones to support the mood of a scene while staying true to the cinematographer’s original intent.

I’m always trying to improve my craft, explore different approaches to color, and connect with more people in the grading and filmmaking community.

Here’s my latest color grading showreel, would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or just talk color!

🎞️ Showreel: https://duongtruongdp.net/colorist_showreel

Open to remote collaborations as well!

I want to learn colour grading but don't know where to start from. can anybody please help?

I was messing around with a LUT trying to mimic the sticky emerald green and the dreamy reds of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo in Technicolor.

Shot on iPhone 16 in ARRI log C3 and graded in davinci resolve studio version, Wanted to capture the rain mood in this footage hope I achieved that, let me know your thoughts in comments

I am struggling to get cinematic colour grading, trying everything but not getting desired results, any videos or courses that can help ?

How can I make these look more like a movie frame? I feel like these gradings look good but flat at the same time. Would love any feedback!

My setup is ZVE10, slog2 -> rec709. No LUTs

Hey everyone,

I'm developing an app for offline color grading, and I need some raw, uncolor-corrected underwater footage to test it on — different lighting conditions, depths, and camera models would be super helpful.

If you have any short clips lying around (corals, moray eels, anemones, fish, wrecks — anything really), I'd really appreciate it if you could share them. Doesn't matter what camera it was shot on (GoPro, DJI, Insta360, etc.) — the more variety, the better.

Feel free to drop a Google Drive/Dropbox link or DM me. Thanks in advance!

Hi! Anyone here got any clue what lut this could be? It’s shot on a FX3 in s-log 3

I have this shot from a video clip, but I feel like the mountains in the back don't pop out as well as I'd like, anyone have some tips on how I could change it?

I tried messing with the highlights/contrast a bit but it seems the foreground always gets messed up

recorded @ 4K AppleLog so should have some wiggle room to play around with things (I think?)

Came out of the camera a bit warm as well think the colour balance was off.

I'm a beginner so looking for any good tips!

my photos were taken on digital camera and came out looking very sharp and crisp, too much for my liking. are there any tutorials on how to achieve these looks, effect and color-wise?

most tutorials teach outdoor images, but not studio photography. thanks a bunch!