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Samyang / Rokinon 35mm T1.5 Lens Test
~T5.6, ISO 800, 1/50th sec shutter - 2560 x 1072px version | R3D download The Samyang 35mm T1.5 is here. It’s a cineivsed version of the popular, low cost, manual focus and manual aperture DSLR lens....
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Blackmagic Design Cinema Camera Colour Grades
I’ve been closely following the development of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera and have been looking forward to grading some of it’s raw files. The other day I stumbled onto this post on Fstoppers.com...
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Recovering Highlights with Davinci Resolve
Ok so it’s not really recovering highlights, cause if they’re blown out, they’re gone. It’s more bringing near blown out highlights back into a useful visible range. A few people on bmcuser and reduser...
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Scarlet + Davinci Resolve Colour Grading Breakdowns
Reduser member Philipe Ratton posted some awesome R3Ds from his latest short film currently in production. I couldn’t resist grading these. You can find the original Reduser post with the R3Ds here....
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Blackmagic Cinema Camera + Davinci Resolve Colour Grading Breakdown
BMCC + Davinci Resolve Colour Grading Breakdown from Juan Melara on Vimeo. BMCuser.com member Kholi posted up some Blackmagic Cinema Camera raw DNGs the other day. So I thought I’d have another go at...
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5D MKII + Davinci Resolve Colour Grading Demo
5D MKII + Davinci Resolve Colour Grading Demonstration from Juan Melara on Vimeo. BMCuser.com member Ervani posted a request for members to try their hand at colouring his footage. Contemplating a...
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Print film emulation LUTs for download
Kodak 2393 Emulation LUT Test + LUT Download Link from Juan Melara on Vimeo. What is a LUT? A look up table (LUT) mathematically translates a set values in your image into another set of values. For...
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Kodak 2393 LUT – Alex Montoya Real World Examples
Kodak 2393 LUT Alex Montoya Footage Breakdowns from Juan Melara on Vimeo. So how do the LUTs from my previous post look when used with footage from a serious production? Below are some real world...
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Summer Blockbuster Tutorial Sneak Peek
I’ve been busily working on the first tutorial in my video tutorial series. Here is a sneak peek of what I’ve been cooking up. I’ll be updating this page over the next 2 weeks with more sample images...
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The Summer Blockbuster Colour Grading Tutorial
01 The Summer Blockbuster Colour Grading Tutorial from Juan Melara on Vimeo. Introduction I’ve received a lot of requests to share the techniques I use to achieve the various grades on this site and...
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Basic Resolve Node Structure and Order of Operations
What I really like about Davinci Resolve is the flexibility offered by the node based workflow. There are seemingly endless ways to setup the structure of your grade. And while I sometimes setup some...
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Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera – ProRes Resolve Grades
Earlier this week John Brawley made available the first ProRes files from the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera. Being a fan of it’s bigger brother, I had to take a closer look at them… If you want to...
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Deep Water Short Film
It’s been a while since my last blog post, I’ve been super busy shooting and grading various projects over the last few months. Luckily some of these are starting to see that light of day so I’m able...
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Based On True Events Short Film
Based On True Events from Gary Allen on Vimeo. Late last year I had the pleasure to grade Based On True Events a short film directed by Gary Allen, with cinematography by Zakaree Sandberg. It was shot...
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Necrophilia: A Love Story – Short Film
In October I graded a great little short film titled Necrophilia: A Love Story. It was written and directed by Michael Millichamp. It’s currently doing the festival circuit, so it’s unlikely it will be...
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Midnight in Paris – Reverse Engineering the Grade
Alexandros A. Apostolos on the Lift Gamma Gain forums posted this thread asking how to achieve the look of the Woody Allen films Midnight in Paris and To Rome with Love. Not seeing anything...
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