From The Grading Room – Wonderful Life

The lenses play a big part as well, specially anamorphic bokeh.

Thanks for sharing what your learned in your conversation with Jean-Clément. Very interesting about the No LUTs and generated grain. Looking back, every job I’ve used a LUT does look similar, no matter what i do.

Looking forward to more of this kind of material, thank you Dan!

Interesting that you give the example of star wars as a feature that was shot on film yet looks crisp and nice. A lot of the times I see a film I like, like star wars for example, and I see a lot of contrast and a lot of beautifully beefy saturated color, but a lot of the times in my personal experience the clients for some reason don’t want that. More often then not they choose muted colour raised blacks and and low contrast vs the healthy saturated healthy contrast looks. It’s a real problem for me to the point that I sometimes think my tastes are not right for the industry that I work in. After all what is the point for me to research all these beautiful filmic grades if in the end of the day clients don’t want but want to be closer to the log c look.

Did he mention how long it took him to grade this ad?

Wow, that Ikea ad is incredible.

Hey Dan, this is a wonderful share, thanks so much!
Hoping to see new insights based on your research very soon!
cheers
Nurali