Other: Slog is fine - it's more than that. It's coloring

eddavid

eddavid

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The most important thing to learn is coloring.
At a certain point, what seperates good from bad is coloring - it's not camera, lenses, filtration, etc etc - it's how good your colorist is.

S log
C log
Arri log

RAW, 12 bit, 10 bit

COLOR COLOR COLOR
 
Adding to this...

The most important thing to learn....is how to control and manipulate light. Coloring benefits from this.
 
yes but coloring can fix bad lighting - but yes good lighting is very important and getting good exposures where you need them
but jeeze is the frame maleable
 
Ed, if you have the time, I would love to know your workflow of choice for coloring. Always interested in others approaches. have you adopted the Aces method yet?
 
You can save a LOT of time if you get lighting right to start. It's going to be a few decades before we stop needing gaffers and makeup artists.
 
Of course it's good to get lighting right and make up and wardrobe and set direction - I'm a professional DP

but it's amazing how flexible Resolve is - using it more and more is blowing my mind away of what is possible in Log or Raw or RGB images

I do primary color corrections
then convert to Cineo
and from there go to a film print emulation.

I'm using impulz luts right now - I think the fuji 200 one is really nice.

but I'm into using any lut I can find for the job.

I don't use ACES - I have no clue how that all works.

What I have now is good for me - but yes I am curious about scratch and all that stuff.
 
eddavid said:
The most important thing to learn is coloring.
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What do you mean, exactly? Color correction? Color grading?

As to the "most important" I'm going to stick my nose in and say it's composition. If the image is poorly composed, no amount of color correction will help.
 
Welcome back Ed.

It's really not one thing alone. Just like a good film isn't "just the camera" - it's the directing, acting, set design, camera, lenses, sound, food on set, editing, mixing, colouring, etc.. when will this damn list end...

I do agree that colouring is essential though. Something I have take the time to learn over the past 3 years using Davinci Resolve. I use to think that colouring was adjusting some curves or fast cc on a premiere timeline, or color control in FCP… boy was I wrong.

Like editing can help a director hone his craft, I feel coloring and grading your own work will make you a better DP and especially when it comes to lighting and use of light modifiers.
 
I think color is where the magic happens. That thing you just can't exactly put your finger on that makes the images take on a certain life that isn't expressly conveyed it the lighting or the framing and composition.

I think color plays on this more than lighting because lighting will change from scene to scene and shot to shot, as it should, but color can set a tone or a mood or a feel that we're not even aware we're experiencing.

It connects heavily to our emotions in ways most of us are not aware of - but when the color has been shaped in a way that matches and/or enhances the emotion trying to be conveyed - then what we end up with is something that really WORKS on us. It impacts us more strongly.

It adds an extra dimension to how deeply we experience the imagery.

Thanks for bringing this up Ed.
 
Color is one of the biggest reasons that people choose the F65 / F55 cameras with their extra wide gamut color filter arrays. While many will say that the available colors goes beyond the needed spectrum, the reality is that just like over sampling in resolution can give cleaner images in a down sampled output so can the color pallets of a project be that much more enhanced with essentially what amounts to over sampled colors.
 
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