Color Grading For Beginners - Exposure and Contrast
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- To learn color grading the very basic understanding is of how Exposure and Contrast work individually and together. So that's what we are covering in this video!
If you got any questions, don't hesitate to leave them in the comments below.
Happy grading!
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Overview
00:00 - Intro
00:19 - Setting Up
00:45 - What Is Exposure?
01:09 - Shadows, Midtones, Highlights & Exposure
04:00 - Lift, Gamma & Gain
05:08 - How To Adjust Exposure
06:16 - How To Adjust Contrast
09:48 - Recap: Contrast
10:19 - Recap: Lift, Gamma & Gain
11:06 - Recap: Shadows, Midtones & Highlights
11:22 - Recap: Offset / Exposure
11:37 - Correcting For A LUT
12:50 - Outro
So cool explaining the difference between the wheels man, helped me a lot, thanks
Happy to hear that! You're welcome!
I appreciate your style of teaching 😀👌
Super happy to hear that man - and glad that you're learning 🙏🏻
Good job explaining the basics.. enjoyed it🎉
Cheers man! Appreciate it, glad you liked it!
Thanks dude, explained so clearly 👍
Thank you Shane! I'm glad you think so! 🙏🏻
Fantastic explanation!
Thank you! Glad to hear it was helpful 🙏🏻
You are good at this. Thanks.
Thank you!
Great Content! I like ur calm way of explaining
Thank you Midas! I really appreciate that, it means a lot 🙏🏻
lift gamma gain - shadows midtones highlights (are they same or work similarly)
They are not the same but sort of similar.
Shadow, midtones and highlights only touch those areas. Meaning, adjusting shadows won't touch the black point, the midtones or anything else. For specific adjustments in those areas it's great.
The lift, gamma and gain is a bit different. Any adjustment in any of these also impact other parts. Lift is basically moving the blackpoint but in a way so that both the shadows, midtones and highlights are affected. The same goes for the gain but the other way around, moving the white point. The gamma leaves the black and white points alone but adjust both the shadows, midtones and highlights, with more emphasis on the shadows than the highlights.
I hope that makes sense. It was the best way I could explain it in a message here ☺️
@@AlexBjorstorp Thank you! :)
Great video! Quick and easy to understand.
I got into color grading the opposite way trying to learn the hard way first, i did not even know what log footage was or how to record it, i thought i was beggining to understand but every time i record there is always sometime wrong haha.
I have a Canon g7x Mark 2 and nikon d5200 not the fanciest cameras and not really made to shoot log but i still want to color correct, i have started shooting in neutral modes but from my understanding you need to desaturate even more.
My question is what would you recomend me do? I post videos in nature, i want the colors to look good but still natural, should i just stick to basics with exposure contrast etc and ditch rec.709 color transform, i find that it usually looks too saturated if i use color transform what should i do instead? Sorry for the long post but everytime i search for answers i find more questions and i dont really know where to begin or what to focus on, editing my videos takes a long time and i love it i could sit all day but i want to become more productive
I'm not sure I fully understand your question but I think you're asking what to do when you're not shooting in LOG. In this case it shouldn't be necessary to use a Color Space Transform. Instead, if your footage is lacking saturation, I would simply use a node and add Saturation in there - the new Saturation slider in the ColorSlice with Resolve 19 is really good and effective without destroying the image.
If you want to learn more about color grading in a structured way, you can check out my course that runs you through everything you need to know. There's a link in the description below all my videos :-)
@@AlexBjorstorp yes sorry for the confusion TMI. That is what i was asking but im also wondering if i put saturation and contrast on lowest setting in camera would it be possible to use colorspace or you think its better to just use the saturation wheel? Will check out the course, thanks!
@@Makziie changing the saturation and contrast in-camera doesn't change it to LOG, so I still wouldn't use a Color Space Transform, when you're already in the correct color space :-) It's better then, to use the tools in DaVinci to get the look you're after - or applying a LUT you like to make it easier and faster
@@AlexBjorstorp okay, thanks for the help 🙏🏼