Hey Nom3n! Thanx for joining our forum!
Thanx for the compliment, I was responsible for both shooting this Vlog and grading it.
We are working together with Dehancer* (post a link at the end of this post) which is film emulating software which can work as OFX within Davincy Resolve. The Kinefinity cameras are completely profiled, simply select the MAVO LF as camera profile, and you can start grading.
I myself used Dehancer in the middle of my node tree in Resolve. First (before dehancer) I get th input to dehancer as clean as possible, making sure the whitebalance is what I like it to be, the tint, contrast , and I most probably did a bit of Noise reduction because that also make the input better color wise (less chroma noise is fun.
Within Dehancer there s a superb tool called Halation Underneath I will quickly explain halation by copy and pasting from some different websites, if you need more specific information your always free to ask and we will try our best to answer your questions.
Halation is a physical effect visible on film as a red-orange halo near the contrasting boundaries of over-exposed areas, as well as a red flare in the middle tones. Usually Halation is produced around bright light sources.
If there is no anti-halation layer, strong light passes through the film, reflects back from the rear surface of the film base, or from anything behind the film (such as the pressure plate or the other internal surfaces) and comes back to the film.
Color emulsion consists of many layers. Basically only 3 or in some cases 4 of them (as with Fujifilm Superia) are involved in the color separation process itself. They are sequenced specifically, and the order determined by the corresponding wavelengths and their distribution in the matter. The closest layer to the lens is responsible for registering the blue light component, then the ‘green’ layer follows, and finally the last and the deepest layer captures the red light.
Therefore, light reflected from the inner surfaces of the camera is usually filtered out from the high-frequency components (blue and green spectrum) and backlights mostly the ‘red’ emulsion layer, which is also the closest to the inner surface of the camera. This causes red halos to appear around strong light sources.
Sometimes reflected light is very bright and not fully filtered by emulsion layers. This allows it to reflect back and penetrate not only into the ‘red’ layer, but also into the ‘green’ layer too. In this case, the scattered light colour shifts to the yellow spectrum, and the Halation effect becomes orange.
Generally, the brighter the light, the higher film exposure and the scene contrast, the stronger Halation effect is and the more its tint is shifted to orange color. In particular, incandescent light bulbs produce quite obvious Halation, but around LED lamps halos may not be visible at all, because the red component in their spectrum is usually insignificant.
There are a lot of discussions about how to mimic halation digitally (look for halation on the famous colorist forum called liftgammagain**)
and it’s actually very hard, and even though you can write your custom scripts it seemed that Dehancer completely nailed halation, they provide you with a lot of parameter to get to look it exactly how you want it.
I will post a youtube tutorial*** from dehancer themselve going indepth with the use of their plugin. Because we are pretty snobbish here at Gafpa Gear we grade always after the film conversion, to get the look even better. We will try to make a tutorial on how we grade with dehancer as film matrix, and how we use Halation.
Please note that you can get 10% off from Dehancer with coupon code GAFPAGEAR
Simply fill it in when purchasing their amazing plugin.
www.dehancer.com (they have a free trial
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www.liftgammagain.com
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