Sunday, May 19, 2013

VisionColor Cinelooks mini review

I've been looking for a color profile that doesn't need grading, one that looks good straight out of the camera. I've tried a few of these profiles and none of them gave me what I was after. Most seemed flat with little to no contrast and the colors didn't pop. 
I recently found http://vision-color.com/ 
and they offer a few different color profiles. VisionColor and VisionTech both are meant to be graded. Cinelook is a profile that needs no grading and can be used straight out of the camera with nice looking results. Visioncolor and Visiontech come buddled for 6.99 and Cinelook is also 6.99

I recently had a BTS shoot and I decided to use my Canon T3i with Cinelook profile for a quick turn around, since it would be just dropping the files on a timeline with no grading. Since this was a BTS I had no control on how I would've lit the scene and I had to squeeze around to get my shots. I have to say with the minimal lighting that was used on set this color profile did an excellent job with its color rendering. The shots came out looking very good, with nice skin tones and overall cinematic image. Overall I'm very pleased with the CineLooks profile. I finally found a straight out of the camera profile that needs no grading. I look forward to trying all the VisionColor profiles and write reviews on them. 
Here's a few of the frame grabs straight out of the camera and only resized for the anamorphic lens I was using.





Bath Salts BTS

I was asked again to shoot BTS for the web series Bath Salts. Shot on a Canon t3i, 24mm 1.4 and used Visioncolor Cinelooks

Bath Salts BTS footage:
http://youtu.be/wbna6pKKysU