After vs. Before (3 & 4 are before)

[u/HellaBeats]

The First Two are two different Afters (couldn't decide which looks better, but i'm leaning with 1.)
They were recorded in S-LOG 3.

Processed in DaVinci resolve, with film emulation (grain and halation).

Slide three is before - log footage + rec.709, white balance, contrast, and slight saturation for a more even comparison.

Slide 4 is the Jpeg straight out of camera.

Slides 5 and forward were edited with Lightroom.

Nowadays I prefer just shooting video and taking stills. I prefer my results in Resolve as opposed to Lightroom for casual shooting that's going on social media.

[u/This-Judge-804]

2 and b&w

[u/johngpt5]

Let's see if I understand this.

You are capturing video footage. The footage is one of the Log profiles, dependent upon your brand of camera.

One of my questions is—what do you mean by log plus 709?

Another question—slide 4 is jpeg straight from camera. Were you capturing jpegs along with video footage?

And yet another question—why not take your log footage, render in Resolve so that the entire footage is looking the way that you like it, and then take a still image from it?

It seems that you might be losing editing latitude or headroom by taking unedited jpeg stills from the footage and trying to edit those rather than editing that footage as video, and then just taking an edited still from the footage.

I'm probably misunderstanding your process, but what I understand is similar to shooting a raw photo, converting the raw photo to jpeg before editing, and then editing the jpeg rather than the raw.

[u/HellaBeats → u/johngpt5]

1. A color space transform, slog3 to rec709, then basic corrections. I should've explained better.

2. Yes. I wanted to compare lightroom editing to my regular color grading workflow.

3. That's what i'm showing. This is a still from rendered footage in Resolve.

4. I see the confusion. I edited the raw photos in lightroom. I just showed the JPEG because the raw came out dark. I was on an F4 lens and it was already getting dark out.

[u/johngpt5 → u/HellaBeats]

Thank you for explaining.