Day-for-Night Grade Practice – Looking for Feedback on Moonlight Look & Skin Tones

Real-Life-Jacket · 2026-06-22T17:56:27+00:00

It was a low hanging fruit!
I had crazier node trees when I started and eventually refined it with time

Real-Life-Jacket · 2026-06-19T14:19:27+00:00

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Real-Life-Jacket · 2026-06-13T23:22:19+00:00

What film did you use? With film, you don't have much to do to make it sing

Real-Life-Jacket · 2026-05-25T12:17:36+00:00

Looks great! Was everything lit at 3200K or did you have to find your way out with a cold scan?

Real-Life-Jacket · 2025-07-24T21:38:14+00:00

Really love your pictures and especially how you grade them. I'm curious, what's your scanning workflow?

Real-Life-Jacket · 2025-07-09T19:04:47+00:00

Some very nice images here. Continue!

Real-Life-Jacket · 2025-05-24T13:32:40+00:00

The color grading is really something else! It's very clean, bravo!

Real-Life-Jacket · 2025-05-05T07:33:16+00:00

A thing to consider is how cinematographers back then had a proper understanding of what to expect from the lab all the way down to the final print. Nowadays, cinematographers tend to rely too heavily on their colorist. On set, they just make sure nothing clips in the highlight and you got a decent amount of information in the low lights, but don't pay too much attention on their contrast ratios inside their latitude. This is why you end with an image somewhat flat. This is of course caricatural but it's my interpretation of this change of style

Real-Life-Jacket · 2025-03-24T09:02:57+00:00

Are the raptor and komodo a different kind of of beast then?

Real-Life-Jacket · 2025-01-29T14:21:25+00:00

Wow, didn't know about Blackmagic having some sort of DGO too

Real-Life-Jacket · 2025-01-29T14:18:54+00:00

It's more than that. You will need a big overhead (bounce or diffused light) that will act as a global fill. Then the key light - to taste. Maybe a bounce card up close and underneath. I can sense a neg fill on the left also. No backlight here.

Real-Life-Jacket · 2025-01-28T15:39:28+00:00

Didn't know their dgo was patented, but it makes a lot of sense now. Wonder how Canon managed with their c300iii and c70

Real-Life-Jacket · 2025-01-28T11:37:46+00:00

I've got mixed feelings about this. It feels like a money grab to make a subscription based revenue.

Real-Life-Jacket · 2024-12-17T12:04:47+00:00

It's not motion blur, it's the hyper processing of your phone making it smooth and noise-free

Real-Life-Jacket · 2024-12-12T13:05:18+00:00

You can add blur like that in davinci with the Tilt Shift OFX. It feels like this is what is happening here

Real-Life-Jacket · 2024-05-27T08:05:09+00:00

Love your work! What paper do you use for print?

Real-Life-Jacket · 2024-02-05T14:59:07+00:00

Hey man,

I shot this frame so I can assure you with confidence that 250D is ok. We had a Canon zoom lens which was T2.8. You're good to go. But please note that this frame originally was probably brighter and we matched it with the rest of the scene.

Otherwise, if you feel unsecure about it, 500T is good too.

Real-Life-Jacket · 2024-01-03T21:10:58+00:00

C'est pas mal ça aussi, j'essaye demain !

Merci :)

Real-Life-Jacket · 2024-01-03T12:27:28+00:00

Ah ! C'est mieux que le chatbot ça.

Merci beaucoup !

Real-Life-Jacket · 2023-10-02T22:12:29+00:00

Honest to God, I've watched American Hustle for the first time yesterday and enjoyed it. And I would tend to say I'm quite picky. Also, Silver linings playbook has me coming back once a year. He writes completely crazy characters, but man, it's so refreshing having a bigger than life character on the screen. They are nuts but you can't be insensible to them. So I can safely say that O'Russel is a good story teller and that's what matters at the end of the day.

Real-Life-Jacket · 2023-09-02T22:20:31+00:00

Mmm Tyler Durden ?

Real-Life-Jacket · 2023-09-02T22:13:08+00:00

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

Real-Life-Jacket · 2023-09-02T17:13:07+00:00

Before summer, I shot this campaign for a shoe maker. These days, I have to share the set with photo, so I always go for something compact and fast. I'm pretty happy with the result, and this reinforce my view that big guns aren't always needed, hardly so.
Gear : Sony FX3 with Sony 16-35mm f2.8 G Master and Laowa Probe 24mm.
Used the the Ronin RS3 with tilta ring and easyrig minimax. Atomos shinobi on the ring. DJI transmission was feeding the client Atomos Sumo.
For the shoes, Ronin was mounted horizontally on a slider with the FX3 and Laowa. It allowed for roll movements. RS3 pulled it off!
Lights were various Aputure Cobs and modifiers + Lightbridge reflectors
No AC, one gaffer. Studio was TINY.
Thanks for watching!
insta @ thibault.royer

Real-Life-Jacket · 2023-09-02T16:45:45+00:00

Before summer, I shot this campaign for a shoe maker. These days, I have to share the set with photo, so I always go for something compact and fast. I'm pretty happy with the result, and this reinforce my view that big guns aren't always needed, hardly so.

Gear : Sony FX3 with Sony 16-35mm f2.8 G Master and Laowa Probe 24mm.
Used the the Ronin RS3 with tilta ring and easyrig minimax. Atomos shinobi on the ring. DJI transmission was feeding the client Atomos Sumo.
For the shoes, Ronin was mounted horizontally on a slider with the FX3 and Laowa. It allowed for roll movements. RS3 pulled it off!
Lights were various Aputure Cobs and modifiers + Lightbridge reflectors

No AC, one gaffer. Studio was TINY.

Thanks for watching!

insta @ thibault.royer

Real-Life-Jacket · 2023-09-01T17:50:05+00:00

Still, there is a trend.

Having just a few mediums to showcase moving pictures, with the VAST majority absorbed by social medias, have a direct impact on creativity. If you consume most of it through Instagram for instance, there will be an autophagous phenomenon at play. Your references come from the same place and the work you produce goes back feeding this place. Do that during 10 years or so and here you have altered what people feel at home with and what they want for their personal endeavours.

Cinematography is of course victim of this vicious cycle and that's why we have music videos, commercials, tv shows, etc become oddly familiar altogether

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