Colour Grading

Underwater Video

"Colour conveys meaning. We use it to define our sensory experience, to describe objects, express emotion, and evoke a response. It is descriptive beyond what we see."
Learn To Colour Grade Underwater video

Colour Grading Underwater Footage

Does your Underwater Footage Lack Colour?

Colour grading underwater video will elevate the quality of your videos.

Are the colours of your underwater videos dull, lacklustre, and not what you remember them to look like while underwater?

Using the power of Davinci Resolve’s unique colour processing program, you will learn to extract colours from your underwater footage that you may have thought impossible. The results will astound you.

This is a practical, hands-on course for people wanting to develop colour grading skills. You’ll gain confidence in using the free version of DaVinci Resolve to achieve your creative intensions.

Learn about colour theory, and how to manipulate colour and light to contribute to your narrative. Gain skills in using DaVinci Resolve and understand the grading workflow.

Our colour grading underwater video footage course is suitable for Cinematographers, Editors, Filmmakers and Post-Production specialists who wish to gain colour grading skills.

You need not have extensive experience using Davinci Resolve Either!

 

In fact, this one-day Colour Grading Underwater Video course was designed for beginner through to intermediate level.

In one day, you will learn to use the basic colour tools within Black Magic Designs-DaVinci Resolve colour grading program. Allowing you to enhance the vibrancy and bring back the colours of your underwater video.

The results you will be capable of after this one day colour grading underwater video course will amaze you.

Underwater video lights are critical for bringing out the colours of an underwater scene. Read about the importance of high CRI lighting in our blog post here.

Colour grading underwater footage

Manipulate Light & Colour Like You Have Never Done Before.

Colour grade underwater footage course

Colour Grading Underwater Video Course Topics Include:

  • Understanding Scopes – a visual representation of colour
  • Balancing using a colour chart
  • Transfer Grades between Shots
  • Make Primary Corrections to balance the shot
  • Use the RGB Mixer Tool
  • Colour Wheels, lift-gamma-gain-offset
  • Resolves node structure.
  • Add Contrast-Saturation
  • Finessing the image with Secondary Corrections
  • Working with Curves: Hue vs Sat – Hue vs Lum – Lum vs Sat – RGB Custom Curves
  • Using the Qualifier Tool for Finessing the Grade
  • Adding Neutral Density Gradient Filters
  • Sharpening with mid-tone detail and blur
  • Shapes and tracking objects

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Introducing Davinci for Divers

Davinci for Divers is THE COMPLETE post-production training series for the underwater videographer.

Improve your video editing and color grading underwater video skills.

Spanning several modules including, video editing, color grading, audio editing, fusion, and advanced training, you will learn the craft of high-end video editing and finishing for your underwater videos.

Covering everything from folder setup, organising your projects, polishing audio to creating visually stunning videos while extracting eye-popping color, Davinci for Divers has something for every underwater videographer, no matter what skill level you have.

Learn more about Davinci for divers here

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About Your Instructor

Highly regarded in the industry, Peter Lightowler is one of the most helpful and knowledgeable instructors to learn from.

Peter holds diplomas in video editing and color grading from AFTRS. He has worked on many TV shows and films. These include teaching at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, and filming the Uber Mini Submarine for Tourism Queensland. Peter has even shot underwater sequences for The Amazing Race TV show.

When Peter is not teaching underwater video courses or underwater filming, we usually find him teaching workshops on RED Digital Cinema Cameras and Davinci Resolve.

Peter has spent years mastering the art of colour grading underwater video footage. Take advantage of Peters knowledge and fast track your learning today.

Being the only Master Trainer for Davinci Resolve in Australia, Peter will teach you to the highest of Blackmagic Design’s standard of video editing.

To book a one-on-one online training class, click here

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Peter Lightowler from LightPost Media & Training,holding a Gates Underwater Housing

Advanced Training

If you would like to learn more about colour grading underwater footage and become a certified Davinci Resolve end-user, you can take the entire Davinci Resolve training series with Peter.

As Australias only Master Trainer for Blackmagic Design, Peter will teach you to the highest standards of Blackmagic. Peter also brings a wealth of real-world experience to his classrooms. Not only will you learn how to use Davinci Resolve but Peter will impart knowledge from his field experience. Helping you to become a better editor and colour grader.

If you need Peter to take care of the grade for you, then use the contact form below to get in touch.

If you want to learn more about underwater filming and become a sought after underwater videographer, consider taking the Underwater Video Course.

Register Your Interest In our Colour Grading underwater Footage Course