I can’t stay quiet anymore, I have to scream!<\/p>\n
I’m a member of a number of colour grading groups on the net and they vary from the great, LGG, to the unbelievably bad.
\nI made a comment a long long time ago that the way to tell who was a dailies colorist was to look for the white stick and the dog.
\nIt seems that now everyone is a colorist and most of the so-called colorists are either color blind, partially sighted or completely blind.
\nI see examples posted online asking for comments, I have refrained so far.
\nMy only comment would be “go and find an optician!”
\nGuys, you need to start with a good image. If after loading your work into your software of choice ( usually Resolve) set the workflow to ACES and use the relevant IDT & ODT. If after this your work doesn’t look pretty good you have fucked up the shoot! go and start again.
\nGreat grading has to start with material the colourist can work with, yes a really good colourist can rescue crap work but there are limits.
\nIf you give them good work to start with…
\nPlease notice I am saying that you should give your work to a good colorist, not that you should do it yourself.
\nIf, for whatever reason, you end up doing it yourself then shoot it right and don’t do a lot in grading.<\/p>\n
It seems that everyone using grading systems for the first time finds the 11 setting before anything else!<\/p>\n
I am so fed up with seeing oversaturated images with crap skin tones and weird contrast. Learn to do it right first. Don’t use the “I am an artist” excuse to cover up bad work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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