How I Grade Backlit Interiors With NO Lights

Описание: Backlit shots are one of the hardest situations to grade. You're either blowing out the window or losing the subject. There's not always a "perfect exposure" if you're on set without lights. All you can do is try and recover what you've got.

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This was an unplanned shoot. No lights, no bounce, just a window blowing out behind the subject and a messy table we didn't have time to clear. We shot it anyway.
In this video, I walk through the full C.R.A.F.T. workflow applied to a real backlit interior — from color space transform to print stack, skin tone correction, saturation, grain, halation, and split toning. No paid plugins. Just DaVinci Resolve.
If you haven't watched the C.R.A.F.T. Framework video yet, start there first. This one assumes you know the system.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - The shot (before & after)
0:23 - Starting from zero (duplicating & resetting the grade)
1:17 - Applying the PowerGrade base (Fuji vs Kodak)
2:00 - Color space transform walkthrough
3:57 - Exposure with HDR wheels
5:21 - White balance using the qualifier tool
7:02 - Contrast adjustments
8:00 - Saturation (HSV technique)
9:20 - Adjusting the print stack tone
10:22 - Film grain (35mm 200T)
11:39 - Halation
12:54 - Power window vignette
15:19 - Split toning (blues in shadows, gold in highlights)
16:26 - Applying the grade across the sequence

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