Colour Me Confused:

This colour grade exercise was both and enjoyable and frustrating. As someone who loves regularly taking photos and editing them, I’m keen to learn more about how to do the same with my videos. However one major frustration that cropped up during this exercise, was the serious lack of image quality for video files, which leads to a serious lack of nice looking colour grade options. However, you gotta work with what you got. Below is a video that features multiple examples of various colour grades, plus a breakdown of each colour grade used.

 

Colour Grade Video: Rosie Being Rosie

 

Colour Grade 01 – Original Colour Grade – Unedited

This is the original colour grade of the video footage, completely unedited.

 

Colour Grade 02 – Pink Hue

Lumetri Color > Basic Correction

Temperature: +30

Tint: +12

Contrast +30

Highlights: -70

Shadows: +54

Whites: -9

Blacks: -17

 

Colour Grade 03 – Film Style

Lumetri Color > Creative

Look: Fuji F125 Kodak 2393

Intensity: 50%

Faded Film: +20

Sharpen: +20

Saturation: -4

 

Colour Grade 04 – Blue

Lumetri Color > Creative

Look: SL Blue DAY4NITE

Intensity: 100%

 

Colour Grade 05 – Sharp Yellow

Lumetri Color > Basic Correction                                      > Creative

Temperature: +149                                                                      Faded Film: +25

Tint: -106                                                                                           Sharpen: +100

Contrast: +30                                                                                  Vibrance: +70

Highlights: -10

Shadows: +27

Whites: -8

Blacks: -3

 

Colour Grade 06 – Beaut Edit

Lumetri Color > Basic Correction                                         > Creative

Tint: +2                                                                                                   Sharpen: +99

Highlights: -38                                                                                   Vibrance: +70

Shadows: +7                                                                                        Shadow Tint: Red/Orange

Whites: +11                                                                                         Highlight Tint: Red/Orange

Blacks: -8

 

Overall:

Getting to experiment with different colour grades was pretty cool and it’s nice to get more comfortable with Premiere Pro’s color correction software. I think overall I like my ‘film style’ edit and ‘beaut’ edit the most as the look the most natural, however the ‘sharp yellow’ is pretty sick also. I often like colour edits that are either hyper natural or super extreme, so it makes sense that I like those three. If I had to pick one I’d probably pick the sharp yellow cause its a bit wacko.

 

Until next time,

Louise Alice Wilson