GRADE MY DNG thread

**AndyGandy** · 10-13-2014, 03:30 PM

He-he! It was fun!

Here is the original file:

And here is the grade:

He-he! I want to call it "From a sandbox to the war!" ©

**NoxNoctus** · 10-13-2014, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by Tom

I love colour grading :-)

Also, as ever, all mine have been done in Resolve 11 - white balance, a bit of LGG adjustment and then finally one of my LUTs

I have to hand it to Adobe, if they had fixed CDNG raw debayering, I wouldn't have stepped into Resolve 11 and seen how wonderful it really is

**AndyGandy** · 10-13-2014, 03:45 PM

I love the way Adobe ACR doing that. But I limited to 2003 process now because of flickering in motion. It is not a big trouble but I miss per--channel curves a lot! Hope Adobe will fix this bug sometime. This way of CG is much easier than rendering a ton of files in Resolve. And by the other hand a lot of photographers can use ACR easily without digging of another complex software. Resolve wins when some tracking or dynamical windows needed.

**Tom** · 10-13-2014, 04:09 PM

Originally Posted by AndyGandy

I love the way Adobe ACR doing that. But I limited to 2003 process now because of flickering in motion. It is not a big trouble but I miss per--channel curves a lot! Hope Adobe will fix this bug sometime. This way of CG is much easier than rendering a ton of files in Resolve. And by the other hand a lot of photographers can use ACR easily without digging of another complex software. Resolve wins when some tracking or dynamical windows needed.

In my opinion, resolve wins in every way - it just takes a bit longer to learn.

**redshift** · 10-13-2014, 05:11 PM

Can I cheat, and make "grade my PNG" post?

Everyone here seems to know way more about grading than I do, which is: pretty much nothing.
I recently shot a music vid here in Tokyo at a restaurant and the only light I had was a small LED panel to light up the singer. The rest was the very-red restaurant lights. I think it looks not half bad with some of Film Convert's presets, but I'm wondering what the magical bmc community could do with it

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...1.Still001.png

**keithlango** · 10-13-2014, 11:40 PM

Here's my Day-for-night on one of Vic's military scenes....
Went for more of a suspense vibe rather than a classic action film grade.

My take:
day_for_night_military_graded.jpg

Original:
day_for_night_military_original.jpg

Resolve 11 Lite Process:

RAW data adjustments (notch down exposure by 1 stop, switched to tungsten WB to add blue to image, popped mid level detail by a bit and clicked the "retain highlights" checkbox)
BMDFilm to Lomo Color Implosion 21 CIN LUT
nodes to grade: desaturation tweak, exposure tweak, vignette, skin tone tweak, more blue/green color
Cineon to Kodak 2383 FPE (D50) LUT

resolve_flow.JPG

**fahnon** · 10-14-2014, 12:14 AM

Hey here's one from a short we shot this summer that's being edited right now. I'll take a stab at one of the others myself tomorrow.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/okdzlt934j...01457.dng?dl=0

**Tom** · 10-14-2014, 02:33 AM

Originally Posted by redshift

Can I cheat, and make "grade my PNG" post?

Everyone here seems to know way more about grading than I do, which is: pretty much nothing.
I recently shot a music vid here in Tokyo at a restaurant and the only light I had was a small LED panel to light up the singer. The rest was the very-red restaurant lights. I think it looks not half bad with some of Film Convert's presets, but I'm wondering what the magical bmc community could do with it

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...1.Still001.png

Not an easy one to grade this, I guess its down to where you are willing to compromise on colour. Balance the background and you have a green singer, balance the foreground and the band are dark and red. I have tried to split the difference here and give the singer a bit of separation.

Graded in R11, no power windows, just LGG and my lut.