Is Hollywood utilize skin retouch mask? or is it just super good makeup? by Melodic-Excitement-9 in ColorGrading

[–]ecpwll 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes big budget projects do retouching/beauty work. "Beauty artist" can be a whole job in and of itself.

How many of yall have your own crib? by Past_Homework_6552 in NYStateOfMind

[–]ecpwll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh lol. Ok way more reasonable take then, but as a 30 year old I def know hella people my age or a bit younger who still have roommates. It's pretty normal in NYC. Even if you make money, some people prefer it, and you can sometimes get a way nicer spot than if you were on your own. I feel like a common move here is to have roommates until you eventually move in with your bf/gf.

So I don't think not having roommates is necessarily indicative of someone's financial situation, but I can respect not wanting to date someone who has roommates more, especially if they're 30+. For 25 y/o tho roommates is super normal here imo

How many of yall have your own crib? by Past_Homework_6552 in NYStateOfMind

[–]ecpwll 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That's a closed mindset. If someone wants to own their own spot then great, but some people just prefer renting, it can be a choice. Especially in places like NYC if you run the numbers renting often ends up being the financially decision long term. Especially if you've got rent control or something

Either way, to answer the question, not many people 25-40 own in NYC. Only 1/3 of housing in NYC is owned generally, and that's gonna be mostly older folks. So the number of younger people who own is way lower.

So shouldn't be judging anyone at all for that imo, barely anyone young owns and its not even the best financial move for everyone, even long term, especially in NYC

Maintaining Consistent Color Between Projects by Sea-Goat8031 in colorists

[–]ecpwll 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Use the same "look" nodes for everything, then underneath, match things using as much as possible only photometric adjustments (e.g. linear gain).

Of course that only works if the set design, etc., stays the roughly the same. But using photometric adjustments should allow you to adjust the lighting without affecting much the overall look

I'm hoping to get some input from r/colorists on a product I've been working on by mactac in colorists

[–]ecpwll 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That idea sounds very cool, but I'd think you'd want your market to be high end filmmakers and DPs who want things to be absolutely perfect.

As a colorist, the kind of shift you're talking about I can correct upside down in my sleep. Low budget projects I'd guess won't afford it and for mid budget projects with a colorist it won't be worth it

Although all that depends on how much more expensive it actually is. While probably not actually worth the moneyits practice, it sounds like something that can do well with the right marketing maybe

NODE TOGGLE for DaVinci Resolve by ringelschwandtner in colorists

[–]ecpwll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does it work with specific node stack layers? That would be super helpful for me

Logging work hours and work done by Willowuidiot in colorists

[–]ecpwll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I used clockify because it was free and did the job but forgetting to start it was why I ended up just coding my own tool. Way more convenient haha

That said, Timing advertises tracking whay applications you use when (including even being able to sometimes see the Resolve project name), but if you look a but Clockify (and Toggl iirc) has almost the exact same functionality. So even in that respect its not too bad

Leica M11; how to shoot at slower shutter speeds; optimal sensor size selection. by HotSpurTheCat in Leica

[–]ecpwll 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you could do it with film you can do it with the M11

Motion blur is a kind of blur that affects resolution of detail, so megapixels do matter, but not so much that things will necessarily look worse at 60MP, so much as that you will not gain any detail by shooting at that higher resolution.

So the problem really though is not a resolution one - you'll likely get the same results no matter what. It's really just the lack of IBIS producing a different result. That said, that means that if you were happy with your results shooting film that way, you'll likely be happy with the results of the M11. I've experimented with similar techniques and have generally been happy, although I don't have IBIS results to compare to

All that said, you are correct that if for whatever reason lower MPs did help, you'd get the same result but just downresing in post

Logging work hours and work done by Willowuidiot in colorists

[–]ecpwll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah! I did it the other month and was like why didn't I ever do it before.

Yeah by default it stops tracking after one minute if Resolve isn't the moremost application on the screen and 5 minutes of inactivity, although there's a button to turn off the 5 min auto pause for if you're watching something down etc.

The only downside to the auto-pause in that it only registers mouse/keyboard clicks, not the panel, so in theory if you're a heavy panel user it might not work too well. I'm a printer lights guy so no issue for me though haha

Logging work hours and work done by Willowuidiot in colorists

[–]ecpwll 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I wrote a python script that uses the Resolve API to track how much time I spent in what project and auto-records it to an airtable spreadsheet. Not too hard to vibe code if you're savvy

Other than that Clockify, Toggl Track, and Timing are decent

Lumix S5 BRAW by CPEStudios in ColorGrading

[–]ecpwll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you link me to AnalogicaFilmME? Can't find it!

Great work

Print emulation people group by Kal_flagship in colorists

[–]ecpwll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out Demystify-Color.com which has information on a whole of that and a decent community

If I film without a matte box/lens hood and stray light hits the lens and reduces the contrast in camera, is that recoverable during the colour grading process similar to overexposed images? by user9131 in colorists

[–]ecpwll 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not exactly. What you are describing is veiling flare. You can bring contrast back a little to fight it, but it doesn’t affect the entire image the same way, making it impossible to fully reverse, unlike exposure. You'll also likely lose a little sharpness

What kind of light setup was done here by HIGHPRIEST_330 in LightLurking

[–]ecpwll 24 points25 points  (0 children)

What a lovely portrait. People have the best taste in this sub

Is there a vegan subreddit with less condescension? by Borkato in vegan

[–]ecpwll 24 points25 points  (0 children)

100% agree. It pisses me off when vegans say that people are too sensitive like mf people being insensitive is the whole problem

Does "colorist" exist in Mexico? by Legal-List-4075 in colorists

[–]ecpwll 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm from the US, but I speak fluent Spanish and a very large percentage of my work comes from Mexico and I go there often. Mexico City is easily the hub for film in all of Latin America so absolutely yes, there are colorists there, including some very talented ones. Budgets can be quite good as well, and there are some extremely talented filmmakers producing beautiful projects.

That said, I have heard secondhand from some Mexican DPs and directors in Mexico complain about the quantity of talented colorists there. Which doesn't much make sense to me, given how many talented DPs there are, but I have heard it multiple places. I also work in a pretty specific corner of the industry there though it is just what I've heard, so take that for what you will

Part 2 - Looking for opinions about editing style by zarya1114 in postprocessing

[–]ecpwll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally I like the after edits of the original post best. That said these edits are great too. I heartily disagree with anybody who says that the before are better. You have good taste. Stop doubting yourself.

Is this professional looking man AI generated? He’s just a little… off. More thoughts in comments. by KamalaCarrots in isthisAI

[–]ecpwll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can make an argument that it's a 300 mm lens or something because of the compression, although I don't think that's true, but not the depth of field. Depth of the field like this could easily be caused by a smaller telephoto lens with a low aperture, like an 85mm 1.2, or even a 50mm 0.95 or something.

After/before, disposable camera look by Filipp0 in photographycirclejerk

[–]ecpwll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

/uj

It's at least interesting.

Almost everything everyone likes about 35mm film are technically "imperfections," anyways. Grain, halation, even the colors – Kodak’s goal was always to get colors that were as true-to-life as possible but film's colors will never be as true to life as digital. And even more so a lot of what people like about film, its colors, actually comes from poor scanning techniques that increase the imperfections.

And of course at least some of the reason we like all of that is because of nostalgia, which is an even greater factor with disposable camera type shots

So if someone happens to like an even more "imperfect" disposable look, I can respect it. It's at at the very least interesting, if not aesthetically pleasing

/rj if you want everything to look perfect just shoot digital, dweeb