The peer-to-peer colour grading thread

[xzobinx]

5 hours ago, Deadcode said:

What was the camera and settings?

 

P4k. Braw Q5. Iso 1250. I can’t remember the wb. Would need to check the meta data when I get home

[Anaconda_]

Here's my take, on the bassist. @xzobinx, what lens did you use?

[xzobinx]

3 hours ago, Anaconda_ said:

Here's my take, on the bassist. @xzobinx, what lens did you use?

 

I used MIR 35mm F2 with a focal reducer. 

I love your natural grade. Would you mind sharing the process ?

[heart0less]

And a small addition from me:

[Anaconda_]

9 hours ago, xzobinx said:

Would you mind sharing the process ?

Thanks! Yeah, I'll have to remake it for screen grabs, but it's all in Premiere with Lumetri, just noodling sliders. I don't like overly stylised footage, just try to make it look a bit thicker than real life, if that makes sense? 

I don't know if it's good practice or not, but in the curves, I also like to cut off the highs and lows, but then adjust exactly where and how it cuts off depending on the clip. It does make the blacks more dark grey though, so be careful.

(this is a really quick example, probably too extreme for actually using his curve)

  

[kye]

22 minutes ago, Anaconda_ said:

Thanks! Yeah, I'll have to remake it for screen grabs, but it's all in Premiere with Lumetri, just noodling sliders. I don't like overly stylised footage, just try to make it look a bit thicker than real life, if that makes sense? 

I don't know if it's good practice or not, but in the curves, I also like to cut off the highs and lows, but then adjust exactly where and how it cuts off depending on the clip. It does make the blacks more dark grey though, so be careful.

Interesting technique, and it goes to show that curves can be tremendously powerful.

Therefore, I officially announce the...  Curves-only Grading Challenge!

It's totally optional, of course, but it's a fun challenge, and learning the fundamentals can be very helpful.

Rules:

• You can only use curves to adjust the image
• The only exception is that you can use a Colour Space Transform plugin to change colour space and gamma

You have unlimited nodes, and combined with keys, layer modes, etc you can do many different things

I'll definitely be trying it

 

[Anaconda_]

Sounds fun - here's mine, 

I only used the RGB curves in Lumetri.

[thephoenix]

what gamma do you calibrate your monitors ? have the benq pv270

[heart0less]

Non-calibrated here, AOC i2369VM.

[kye]

For my curves-only attempts, I'm limiting myself to the Lum-vs-Lum curve, so no fancy Hue-vs-Hue or anything like that.

Curves-only challenge #1, a softer more film-like grade:

Curves-only challenge #2 - a more contrasty grade:

Normal grading #1:

That was quite an interesting one to grade.. very contrasty and that clipped red channel was tricky to recover in a natural way.  Plus the strong red light made the denim jacket an awful colour if you tried to WB it 'correctly'.. the jacket on my first attempt looks ok to me, the second looks awful, although I managed to balance the green-magenta ok using the curves, and the last one is more just embracing the fact it's stage lighting and not meant to be compensated for.

[kye]

and just for fun, here's one where I partially desaturate the image, then tint it back to being red:

It evens out the colours a bit, and "de-muds" the shadows nicely.

[BrunoCH]

I am color grading my last short film. What do you think of this pictures ?  

If you want to try something.you can get a trim copy (a few secondes) of original F-Log with this link :

https://we.tl/t-LofgsAXmnn

 

[kye]

@BrunoCH looks pretty good to me!

Why is the boom operator in your short?  Maybe @IronFilm can be a movie star after all!!

[heart0less]

Yup, these are fantastic.
Blacks are black and neutral (just the way I like it), but there is still a lot of detail in the shadows. Skin tones look superb.

Since you are already grading it, I assume you finished cutting it? When do you plan on releasing it?
Can we count on some shooting and editing first-hand experience?

[BrunoCH]

@kye

Thanks for the comment. It’s a father daughter story. The man is a filmmaker kind of no crew no money, nothing.

 

@heart0less

Thanks for the comment. Editing is finish. Color grading will be ok in a week, I think. But I need time for sound and music. I  almost understand english but I can’t easily write and speak. It's too long and hard to share what I do.

[funkyou86]

On 3/12/2019 at 2:30 AM, Juxx989 said:

A new shot it saved it in TIFF hope that's right

This is P4k Prores 1080p LT  

 

Drummer_1.25.2.tif 11.87 MB · 16 downloads

Tiff to take a stab @ it.

 

Here's my take  

[heart0less]

17 hours ago, BrunoCH said:

@kye

Thanks for the comment. It’s a father daughter story. The man is a filmmaker kind of no crew no money, nothing.

 

@heart0less

Thanks for the comment. Editing is finish. Color grading will be ok in a week, I think. But I need time for sound and music. I  almost understand english but I can’t easily write and speak. It's too long and hard to share what I do.

Sure, it's all right!

Be sure to post the finished result here.

( :

[kye]

On 1 February 2020 at 6:59 AM, BrunoCH said:

I  almost understand english but I can’t easily write and speak. It's too long and hard to share what I do.

Write it up in your native language and we can put it through google translate?  Language isn't the barrier it used to be and shouldn't get in the way of talking about what matters.

[PannySVHS]

Hot thread. Let's keep em coming! 🙂

[BrunoCH]

On 10/16/2023 at 1:50 PM, PannySVHS said:

Hot thread. Let's keep em coming! 🙂

Here's a Flog shot with an XT4 (trimmed copy of the original file).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1atTlmtWQYmRevkfXwsM4ihnyR7ARMLvf/view?usp=share_link

And my grading suggestion.