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Anonymous03/23/25, 10:54No.4417170White balance vs color grading
What is the difference between "wrong white balance" and color grading?
I'm not picking on this guy or trying to make a point about leaving analog colors untouched. But you can clearly see that him fixing the white balance of 800T ruined all the mood. On the other hand you can clearly see that picleft does not look like one of these insanely well colorgraded pics?
So what gives?
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Anon03/23/25, 11:04No.4417172
There's no wrong or right way of doing it when it's your stuff, it's your own personal style
You should in theory do it right in photojournalism and product
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Anon03/23/25, 11:08No.4417175
that doesn't even look like medium format
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Anon03/23/25, 11:20No.4417177
looks better on the left
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Anon03/23/25, 11:23No.4417178
>the mood
you mean the fake-nostalgia? kill yourself
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Anon03/23/25, 11:36No.4417179
There's mixed light there, he fucked up by not acknowledging that. He seems to have applied a global white balance adjustment.
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Anon03/23/25, 13:59No.4417196
cinestill is vision 3 which means its literally film that was specifically fucking designed to be scanned and then color graded. all cinestill films, all vision 3 kodak films and all of kodak's professional line filmstocks were specifically designed to be scanned into a computer and edited with some form of editing program
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Anon03/23/25, 14:09No.4417201
White balance can be a part of color grading, but color grading can involve much more
White balance is literally how do your whites render
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Anon03/23/25, 19:16No.4417283
when you shoot film under fluorescent light magneta filter cc10m or cc20m should be used.
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Anon03/23/25, 19:58No.4417292
fixed
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Anon03/23/25, 21:12No.4417308
>What is the difference between "wrong white balance" and colour grading?
Colour grading is just adding a colour cast to specific tones. Most people just do it by choosing one colour for highlights, one for midtones, and one for shadows, but those three are arbitrary and you can to it do any section of a tone curve so long as your software supports it. That's just the easiest way of doing it in lightroom so that's what most people go with. You also don't need to add a cast to all sections of your tone curve if you don't want to. Wrong white balance changes the temp of your whole image, not just tonal sections. So this limits you to only making your colours warmer or colder, rather than adding a cast like in colour grading. It also applies to the whole image automatically, rather than just sections, unless you mask it I guess. Generally making your white balance off on purpose looks ugly, but then so does colour grading.
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Anon03/23/25, 21:30No.4417311
"wrong white balance" is step one of "color grading"
step two is a broad color transform to stylize the image, usually to limit the overall palette to a few colorsin the end it doesnt matter what you do with color as long as it's not grossly unnatural (like un-graded panasonic/sony/fuji/vision3 is) because subject is king and if your best model is uggo your photo is automatically shit to everyone but you, them, and their mother
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Anon04/11/25, 20:31No.4421775
problem is that is a shitty subject in a shitty location, thus anything left to discuss about is how much blacks are capped or not...shitty photo and garbage exercise desu imho
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Anon04/14/25, 10:15No.4422306
as for me, the blue tint of that film just werks
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Anon05/04/25, 06:27No.4424494
To my hobbyist eyes looks like the edit is just "Remove green cast from tubes, which is fine and then add too much saturation, which is not."
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Anon05/19/25, 02:49No.4427934
since cinestill is tungsten balanced he could have used an FL-W filter, right?
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Anon05/19/25, 04:18No.4427948
THE PROBLEM IS THAT YOU ARE PARTING FROM A FALLACIOUS PREMISE: «MOOD» IS NOT A TECHNICAL FACTOR, NOR AN ARTISTIC ONE; YOU SUFFER FROM Z00MER BRAINROT.
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Anon06/07/25, 06:39No.4433311
Unpopular opinion but the raw 500T look or the "Twilight-Look" go hard. Especially in a collage/set of 4+ photo.Fuck whatever nerds call "correct".
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Anon06/08/25, 07:25No.4433662
>shoot film
>Remove all filmic quality and make it look like a modern photo
what was the point?
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Anon06/19/25, 15:50No.4437736
white balance cannot adjust hue ranges separately, but a good base white balance does mattercolor grading is more micromanagement