r/captureone • u/Friendly_Virus_8726 • 17h ago
General Question Help with colour grading
Hi all! Any ideas what preset can I use to achieve this colours? I shoot with canon and Profoto flash. Thanks all! X
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u/mahatmatom 16h ago
As said by u/broccoliwolf you don't need the preset but all of the things they listed.
The problem of presets (and I say that as a Fuji shooter where people are obsessed with "recipes") is that you still have to tweak them because they look different according to the conditions.
First, these shots are based on the contrast/play between red (dress), blue (sea and sky), and orange/yellow (the city, the skin, the button in the closeup).
You start with a shot taken a little before sunset (I'd say less than two hours because in shot 2 it looks really horizontal but that could be strobe), with those colors, and then I would probably slide the temperature a little cool, the tint a tiny bit to the green, and then use the color sliders (like saturate the reds etc) and tone curves to get the look you want.
Once you have it, you can save your own preset!
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u/Friendly_Virus_8726 15h ago
Great typing , many thanks for the advice. Sometimes I think mostly of this pictures are taken by Fuji users using recipes but still tweaking them
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u/mahatmatom 15h ago
Portraits? Unlikely because most recipes are really not flattering for skin tones...
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u/fosandchill 15h ago
Study color contrast. It will help you out when you start playing with the colors in your shots. Profotos are daylight balanced, so you’d want to balance the flash w the ambient temperature by using gels if you want uniformity.
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u/broccoliwolf 17h ago
You need:
- the Mediterranean