Feedback on Color Grade

[Mally Dangerous]

Could I get some feedback on the grade of this shot?

Raw from the HVX-200

Graded with Apple Color

Thanks!

 

[Beat Takeshi]

I like the raw footage better because you can see more details in the jacket unless its a music video, then crushing the blacks seem to be the order.

 

[Mally Dangerous]

Yeah, it is a music video.

 

[Shooter]

Dont forget to paint out the light reflected in the screen door

 

[PatrickLawler]

I like the second one, it makes it much more stylized and as always the vignetting makes it look more filmic and less digital video. I personally am a huge fan of higher contrast images and crushed blacks.

 

[Ted Spencer]

I like the low black level and desaturation, but at least in this still the vignetting is causing too much detail loss in the jacket/lower right corner for my taste, and I find it very distracting in the upper right. It's a bit too much of a "hey look at this cool effect" thing to me, even for a music video.

I'd try either reducing the vignetting's black level or lose it altogether.

 

[Jimmy Moss]

I like the colors, but I agree, the blacks loose to much detail. Could just be my computer monitor.

 

[DePalmoNewMedia]

the color graded render of your shot looks much more filmic. The crushed blacks and low saturation level make the shot more pleasing to the eye, imo.