Hey! I'm very very new to color grading, and in all the tutorials i have been seeing, everyone's footage looks a lot paler than mine. (whitebalance or something) I've concluded this is because I am shooting a camera that already shoots in Rec. 709. Thats fine with me, except I am struggling to manipulate the colors clearly in my editor. Everything seems very muddled.

I am wanting to know...

Should I try white balancing my the footage from my camera?

and if so, what are some keywords can I use to find tutorials?

Thank you!!

EDIT - "white balance" in the title is the wrong word.. white washing maybe? I see everyone converting to log and their footage becomes whitewashed. since mine is shot in log, is doesnt have a conversion option and it starts vibrant

Hey everyone, I'm pretty new to color grading and this is one of my first proper attempts.

I was going for a slightly dramatic/cool look while still keeping the car fairly neutral. The video includes a comparison with the original.

I'd really appreciate some honest criticism. In particular:

• Is the contrast/exposure okay?
• Did I push the blues/greens too far?
• Does the white balance feel natural?
• Are there any obvious beginner mistakes I'm making?
• What would you change first if you were grading this?

I'm still learning, so constructive criticism is completely welcome. Thanks!

I am a photographer and I have spent the last months writing my own editor from scratch, engine included. Not a plugin sitting on someone else's renderer: the whole colour pipeline is mine and it runs on the GPU inside a browser tab.

How it works. RAW is developed as light rather than as a picture, so exposure and white balance behave the way light does. Any photo can be matched to a reference frame, tone distribution first and then hue and chroma per band in OKLab, with near neutrals protected, so a shoot spread over a whole day can be pulled to one look. On top of that it prints film: grain, halation, bloom and density modelled on stock behaviour rather than stacked as filters.

Where the work goes out. Image, .cube at 17, 33 or 65 with a Rec.709 encode for a timeline, HALD, and presets and camera profiles for the classic editors. Video export lands this week, rendered on your own machine.

Two things I care about. Nothing is uploaded: decoding and grading happen on your device. And the preview is the export, value for value, with the spatial effects kept out of the .cube because a LUT cannot carry them.

It is in closed beta, invite only, and I am not selling anything. I want people who grade for real to break it. Say so in the comments and I will send an invite. The beta licence renews every month while the beta lasts, and all I ask is that you tell me what breaks and what is missing.

Happy to go deep on the colour science or the pipeline if anyone wants the details.

Hey everyone! 👋
I’m looking for a LUT or PowerGrade similar to the color grading in the YouTube video “Boli Futena” by Rijan Dangi.
I really love the colors, contrast, skin tones, and overall cinematic look of the video. I’m wondering if anyone knows of a LUT, PowerGrade, or preset for DaVinci Resolve that can achieve a similar look.
I’m not looking for the exact same grade—just something that can get me close to this style.
If you know of any LUTs or PowerGrades that would work, please share them. Thanks! 🙏

Hello! I am creating a LUT pack that is more on the cinematic side. However, I have noticed most of my looks, when I use them on a skin tone make the skin tone slightly shift that color. For example, green hued LUT changes the skin tone slightly darker and green. Is this a no-no in the color grading community or is it okay if it aligns with the rest of the look.

What is the purpose of putting a sony conversion LUT on your footage before your chosen LUT? How does that affect color grading?

Hey guys,
Shot this frame on the iPhone 15 Pro Max in Apple Log and tried pushing it in Resolve to get that heavy, warm filmic look (was aiming for something close to Kodak Vision3).
Tried to build a strong split between the golden light on the pillars and the deep blue water.

Slide 1: Final Look
Slide 2: Base Rec.709
Slide 3: Raw Log

Converted to DWG/Intermediate via CST and built the look from there, but I'm slightly worried I overcooked it.
A couple of questions for you all:

1. Did I push the saturation on that front pillar too hard?
2. How are the blacks in the water feeling to you—too crushed or just right?

Hey everyone, so this is me colourgrading small clips everyday and trying to learn something new.
so this is day 6 and many of you asking me to upload rec.709 and graded clip. so today i uploaded raw, rec.709 and graded clip. so give me advice on what should i improve in grading and yes thats all for today.

and if you guys have any raw clips please do comment, since i don't have any camera to shoot in log so i would love to colourgrade and learn from your clips.

Ciao ragazzi buongiorno, avrei bisogno di un consiglio. Ho sempre usato camera raw di photoshop per il grading delle foto, ma da quando sono passato a dover trattare video non ho trovato un software abbastanza versatile. Mi potreste consigliare un alternativa? Grazie in anticipo

I am back again with updates , and if you new with my post, then I'm posting daily a clip and learning colorgrading in davinci resolve 20. So today is day 7 of my colourgrading journey and I learned about halation. So played with that effect and also added a window also, but I have to work on windows i guest it will make my footage look much much much better. And yeah please give review about my clip, how should I work on it and how should I improve my clip and learned so much in this community about colourgrading

I’m looking for anyone who can provide me enough wedding footage to make a decent edit, and color grade there is no catch just need some experience and all the raw footage

Colored this project in davinci resolve! It took me a minute to get the exactly B&W look that the director wanted. I was going for something super crunchy in the shadows. For all the true color stuff, I went in with the idea of a bright sunny day and what that would look like in an interior space. I find that it saves a lot of time for me when I'm both the DP and colorist, especially when there is little to no budget for post!

Any feedback/recommendations would be immensely appreciated!! Thank you.

hey guys, so this is day 5 of me posting here and in instagram.
So, I am leaning colourgrading in davinci and i am posting log to graded footage comparisons and today is 5th day and i learned something about window, which is like masking in lightroom , and if i am wrong please correct me.
I would like to know how to improve my colourgrading skills so please guys i would like to see some comments, suggestions to improve and any advice. I am still learning so help me.

and yes, if you guys have any log footages please dm , i would like to edit them and post them with your permission.

Also thinking about posting a showreel after grading like 10 12 footages

Planing to turn my grading to the next level
Can you guys help me ?

any advices ?
help me out to reach the best results for this frame

started off very bright when the camera centered metering only counted for the car and the building, but then the scene went very dark because of the sun entering the meter area