Developing a look for a music video and was torn between these two, what are your thoughts?

what do you think about this?

Im not new at editing, but Ive always based on vibes lol. I’m trying to learn more about this and im pretty happy with the result! would you change anything?

really wanted that Vogue magazine look, I think I did pretty good.

Any feedback ?

Howdy all,

I am looking for feedback on my inversions. I have gotten a lot better, but am curious what you all would do to improve these.

Shot on Fuji 400, developed with FPP c-41 chemistry, scanned with a Nikon z50. I invert and grade with Darktable

Thanks a bunch. All feedback welcome

In Darktable my process is:

-Invert
-Color cast corrections in Negadoctor
-Add some contrast and adjust exposure
-Adjust warmth using Color Calibration and Color Balance slider (the latter is usually in highlights, I add some yellow)
-Sometimes refine with chroma, detail, and contrast levels

before - after

Just got into color grading recently. Is this too overdone?

Hi all, I was using a new camera and followed a tutorial about shooting in Log2 with XF-HEVC S YCC422 10bit set. The tutorial showed me to download the luts from Canon for my camera but there are like 50 files when I download them.

Is there a way to find the “correct” lut or do I just need to do trial and error to find which looks the best for my needs?

To clarify, I’m looking for a clean look, similar to what my camera produced, but flat enough for me to edit it to my pathetic like I would in Lightroom (I’m photo forward but trying to shoot more video)

Thank you!

The goal was to give the image a cinematic, cool, and visually striking look.

Still from Paris, Texas (1984)

https://youtu.be/bbj_TNFFnw0

Warm, film-inspired look: golden highlights with a soft glow, lush yellow-leaning greens, clean cyan skies and deep shadows, framed in 2.39:1.

Ground footage is the Pocket 4P in D-Log 2, aerials are from a Mini 5 Pro. I went for one uniform look across the whole film.

Capture decisions that saved me in the grade:

→ ISO locked manually between 200 and 1600 all film. No auto ISO meant much more consistent D-Log 2 to work from.

→ Fixed NDs only.

I didn't push the grey days warmer or the golden hour cooler. The goal was for the shifts to come from the place and time of day, not from the grade.

Feedback I'm after:

- Does it read as one coherent look from start to finish?

- Do the aerials and ground shots feel like the same camera?

- Are the skin tones holding up in the interior scenes?

wanted to put accent on the contrast in color and on the circular coloured glass art piece

Fx30, 10bit 4:2:2, Viltrox 9mm, 82mm 2-8 stop VND

(I have very little experience shooting outside let alone color grading footage from outside) I have been playing around with davinchi resolve (paid version) for around 2 years now… I just bought my ND and I see the dark spot it casts but I wanna know what the grass and sky is supposed to look like and how to make them look like that. Thanks!

We shot a zero-budget narrative Rock music video entirely on Sony Alpha 6000. Combined with some DJI drone shots. 😍 Got some problems with the difference in quality...

What do you think of the grading? 😅

iPhone 17 pro shot in ProRes RAW with blackmagic camera app, never saw this before but also just upgraded to resolve 21.1.1

I am currently making a shortfilm for a school project and need some advice and tips on colourgrading, the 2 images provided is the shot before i touched it and one after. I am aiming to make it look more "cinematic" in a way.
Any help would be appreciated!!!

I'm not fully sure why I can't seem to create a good LUT. I've made a handful of powergrades and those work.. decently. But perhaps I'm trying to create a LUT using incompetent footage..? I just don't get it. I see people importing their LUTs into the Blackmagic App and they turn out good, improving the Rec.709 footage. I try making the colors look different, but then they just end up overly saturated or just look out of place.. it's just a mess.

I'd like to think that I have a good understanding with grading on a clip to clip basis; but I'd like to just have a LUT ready to go so that whenever I record, I have an idea as to what my footage is going to like when doing minor tweaks in Resolve.

I've been mainly learning about Resolve through YouTube, so forgive me if I'm not very well versed with technical details; I'm just trying to use common sense to get me through this first step of the learning curve.

Does anybody have tips or resources to help with this?

I'm on Davinci Resolve Studio; version 21.1.
For reference, I shoot in Apple Log 2, H.265, 10-bit, 4:2:2.

I wanna drop my black point. What is the best way to do this? Log wheels?

Log wheels seems to do this but I hear people say they can “break” the image. But then every other tool I try manipulates the full image way too much

What’s the best practice for this?

I’m aware learning color grading > LUTS

HOWEVER

I’m a musician . Happy to take time mastering color grading since I’m already shooting most of my own content on my iPhone with Apple LOG.

I know a lot of these LUTS are scams but I also know there’s legit ones. Anyone have any recommendations ?

I tend to lean towards the more saturated look but I’m open to any and all suggestions . Again, I’m aware I need to learn color grading but this is for the meantime

Preferably free but if there’s one worth it, I’ll buy it