Stept colour grading

mt.hemel

mt.hemel

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Hi M&A,

Today I am asking you think Stept Productions generally do in post. I have been set a project to analyse work of various cinematographers and now after finishing all the others I now have Stept to do. I have been trying to figure out for a while what they do but I just can't work it out. If you could help it would be greatly appreciated! Something along the lines of this

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I'm no coloring expert. But to me it looks like they literally shoot a flat profile on a DSLR and not tweak it much at all. I used to use one called Marvel that looked like that with no adjustments in post. Other than balancing from shot to shot.

I could be totally wrong though.
 
Basically exactly this is what it looks like to me. They don't seem to do anything in post for the most part, unless they push the blacks towards gray more than a flat profile does.
 
I know stept does alot of small tweaks but they definitely get most of their color from their in camera profile.

I try to keep color as simple as possible, I get my image mostly dialed in camera and then do minor tweaks, not all color is done in post, especially with dslrs/avchd cameras.
 
IF you get that cinestyle profile installed in your camera, you can turn it on and off right? (probably a pretty dumb question sorry) and I remember people saying that its pretty much pointless to shoot with a flat profile because you can just do it all in post?
 
Stept shoots cinestyle and doesn't do much if any in post- granted they may be doing more this year but I know in the past by and large they dial everything in in-camera.

 
Aside from the wider aspect ratio, I though the eighty six looked much different from any of their previous films. Was this due to shooting in a flat profile or were they doing that before?
 
They did it in weight too, but they did it better in 86. I hope someone from stept chimes in sometime and gives a little more detail.
 
Yes you can have both. Cinestyle is just a picture style you install on the camera regardless that doesn't require magic lantern. Magic lantern runs along side the regular canon firmware so pretty much anything you could do without magic lantern (such as install picture styles) you can still do with it.
 
So do you guys think the all of mutiny was shot with a flat profile and graded in post? Damn thats a lot of grading. Isn't that how most hollywood films are shot? along with shooting everything overexposed.
 
I havent seen the movie yet, but based on the trailer, it was shot similar to the eighty six. It is a flat profile with minor tweaks in post.
 
You don't want to shoot over exposed. Shoot everything properly exposed. If you aren't sure on your exposure, it's better to be a little under exposed instead of over exposed because over exposing washes out the information there and you can't bring it back, but if you are under exposed all the information is there, just bring up the exposure on the computer.
 
if anything shots are slightly underexposed. and color correcting all of your shots and color grading everything to your own style adds so much production value to a piece. i color correct and grade almost 99% of everything i create
 
No, you want to overexpose as much as possible without clipping. Nearly all of the information in your image is stored in the highlights
 
Yeah but they're right, its easier to pull details from an underexposed image. But you're not overexposed if you're not clipping.
 
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