GH4 Best settings for skin tones?

It looks fine. Both versions are actually within tolerance. Your lighting, composition and exposure are just fine. Given that viewers will actually be paying attention to the content and not pixel-peeping like us GH4 owners, I don't think you have anything to worry about.
 
My conclusion:

Skintones can look amazing on the GH4 (especially on CineD and CineV). But you have to use the right settings (No highlight/shadow and iDynamic or iResolution) and have to grade it properly (hue vs. hue curve is essential), built my own LUT in Resolve for the following settings. :)


My settings:

CinelikeD
Contrast: -1
Sharpness: -5
NoiseReduction: -5
Saturation: -5
Hue: +1
Master Pedestal: +15
Highlight/shadows: 0/0
iDynamic/iResolution: OFF/OFF (blocky noise)
0-255 (full 8 bit)

For Low Light CinelikeV with the same settings, except for Contrast: -5

Two examples from yesterday using my LUT (sorry for the motion blur):
 

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mmaller said:
Although Harry may be right in that your original might have a slight greenish cast, I think your 2nd correction went too much the other way.
Also, although technically all skin tones fall into a specific range on a vectorscope, each person has their own particular hue and saturation so to speak.
Without knowing how that person in your shot really looks in person, it's hard to determine what the correction should be.
Although the shot can be balanced correctly given the exposure and the profile you used, that may not equal what he really looks like in person under those lighting conditions.

Sometimes it comes down to just a matter of taste as long as you are in the correct ballpark. Not everyone is going to agree on your color correction as each persons
color perception is not equal.

I think your shot looks generally very good. You have nice depth behind the subject with a soft non distracting graphically interesting background.
I don't think you need to reshoot.
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Thanks for the feedback! As I said, although the first image was more saturated than I normally like, I thought it had a pretty good basic interview look. I also like the way the background looks for this video. This is the first video I have shot with the new camera, so much more experimenting ahead!
 
dvbrother said:
It looks fine. Both versions are actually within tolerance. Your lighting, composition and exposure are just fine. Given that viewers will actually be paying attention to the content and not pixel-peeping like us GH4 owners, I don't think you have anything to worry about.
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Appreciate your response, looks like I did ok then. The whole issue of color has been the hardest part of shooting for me so I relieved to have a few positive comments on the way this looks. I don't do this professionally but use video for my company promotions that we post online and have been a devoted GH user since the GH1.
 
DeeZiD said:
My conclusion:

Skintones can look amazing on the GH4 (especially on CineD and CineV). But you have to use the right settings (No highlight/shadow and iDynamic or iResolution) and have to grade it properly (hue vs. hue curve is essential), built my own LUT in Resolve for the following settings. :)


My settings:

CinelikeD
Contrast: -1
Sharpness: -5
NoiseReduction: -5
Saturation: -5
Hue: +1
Master Pedestal: +15
Highlight/shadows: 0/0
iDynamic/iResolution: OFF/OFF (blocky noise)
0-255 (full 8 bit)

For Low Light CinelikeV with the same settings, except for Contrast: -5

Two examples from yesterday using my LUT (sorry for the motion blur):
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These look great! I did try the CinelikeV and CinelikeD first but they just looked either too muted (D) or too dark and and dense (V) when I shot the interview test. Both Natural and Standard was more pleasing to my eye. But with your LUT, these images really work. I have never used a LUT but I did just download a few sample LUT's to test out.
 
larrys - I agree no need at ALL to reshoot... even the 'green' version is more than good enough for non-peepers.
 
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DeeZiD said:
My conclusion:

Skintones can look amazing on the GH4 (especially on CineD and CineV). But you have to use the right settings (No highlight/shadow and iDynamic or iResolution) and have to grade it properly (hue vs. hue curve is essential), built my own LUT in Resolve for the following settings. :)


My settings:

CinelikeD
Contrast: -1
Sharpness: -5
NoiseReduction: -5
Saturation: -5
Hue: +1
Master Pedestal: +15
Highlight/shadows: 0/0
iDynamic/iResolution: OFF/OFF (blocky noise)
0-255 (full 8 bit)

For Low Light CinelikeV with the same settings, except for Contrast: -5

Two examples from yesterday using my LUT (sorry for the motion blur):
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With all due respect neither of these samples would lure me to use your settings, particularly the second one which looks to me as though either:

A. Too much pedestal in the settings.
B. Optical flare, which may be the case with the kick coming off that wall to camera-right.
C. A combination of both A & B.

The skin tone is just ok, sure seems like a lot of cyan in all of the whites though. The blacks in this image ( the second sample with the couple) remind me of what used to happen on film if you moved the exposure up enough to cut off the toe. The first image just looks underexposed and brought up in the grade. This is all subjective, and just what I see, maybe these are both exactly what you have been aiming for.
 
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