What is texture? And how do you add it to your image? While teaching at NAB this year I spoke to some awesome Mixing Light members who…
Tag: theory
How to build complicated node trees (without getting lost) This insight was inspired by a great member and long term fellow colorist Colin Travers. In my previous…
‘Order of Operations’: It’s a term you need to know and understand Nodes are the building blocks in Resolve and often forgotten about. We use them for…
How Color Temperature Sets Mood and Tone Next up in my series on rediscovering the basics is to take a look at color temperature. Color temperature is…
Thinking about how to approach the foundation of every Look Next up in my series on rediscovering the basics is to take a look at contrast. In…
Working Saturation Without Touching The ‘Sat’ Control Welcome back to Mixing Light for 2015! A new year brings a new start and as I was making my…
Do you have 50 shots that need quick and effective beauty work (but no budget or time)? In my previous Insight on this topic I shared the…
Welcome back to almost the grand finale of my series on beauty grading! In the last insight we took a look at how I re-touch my beauty…
I recently had a chance to jump back into the photography studio and take some head shots to help out a friend. It was quite a fun…
In this insight I take a look at an advanced technique for beauty grading. Inspired by the world of still retouching and built by the amazingly smart…
In this Insight we take a look at what options we have available to us in DaVinci Resolve for working with skin tones. Skin tone retouching comes…
They call it color correction or color grading, but I’m convinced that the most important part of our job as colorists has nothing to do with color,…