Behind The Curtain – Refining and Enhancing ‘Bread’

Great series, Dan! I really enjoyed seeing your whole process, even the matching aspect. Hearing your thoughts spoken aloud as you grade was helpful in adding context to your decisions.

Thanks Dan for this series! Its super helpful for me as a young colorist. I love seeing how you work and hearing your thought process throughout. One question I have is about your node structure. I’ve watched this three part series, especially the first insight, a few times and one thing I’m trying to figure out is do you have dedicated operations for each node? Like your first 4 nodes, where your constantly shaping the image, balancing the image, etc; does node 1 have a dedicated task like exposure so if on any other shot where you need to adjust exposure you always go to node 1. And so forth for nodes 2 thru 4. Do you work in that systematic kind of way? Maybe labeling some of your nodes, for folks like me who are trying to wrap our heads around the purpose and task of each node, would be helpful? Thanks Dan!

Would also like to know this! It seems that some nodes later on had different things added to them..like an offset color balance push where it was previously only used for log shadows, etc

I think I should do an insight to cover this. I guess the short answer is I try to have a system but I’m a little scatter brained and accidentally forget to swap nodes sometimes… especially when matching! I’ll try and record an insight based on this ASAP!

I would call those things happy little accidents. I always try and keep my nodes in a regular structure but sometimes I forget to swap nodes when matching and all the rules go out the window!

Really great and please do more this kind of breakdown as I found repetitive absorbing from the techniques are important for beginners like me.

Great series. Please do more of these!,,