curious what everyone's process looks like after they land. i feel like this is something nobody really talks about in depth, everyone talks about camera settings and flight technique but the editing side is kind of glossed over. i shoot d-log on my air 2s and then i just kind of fumble around in premiere or resolve trying to make it look normal and sometimes it comes out ok and sometimes it looks greenish and weird and i cant always figure out why.

do you use luts? make your own? i downloaded a pack once and half of them looked way too cinematic and orange for what i was going for. also for stills im in lightroom and i have a rough preset i made but i keep tweaking it every single time which defeats the purpose of having a preset i guess. just wondering if anyones got a system that actually works consistently

the greenish thing in d-log is almost always the white balance being slightly off before you apply your lut ? d-log is really sensitive to WB and if the footage is even a little warm or cool before you color grade it the lut just amplifies whatever's wrong. i always set a custom WB on the ground before takeoff now instead of relying on auto, makes a huge difference in consistency.

for luts i eventually just made my own in resolve by grading one shot i was really happy with and saving that as a starting point. it took a few attempts but now my stuff at least has a consistent look across a whole project which is all i really wanted. the bought lut packs can work but you have to think of them as a starting point and dial the intensity way back, like 40-50% opacity max otherwise yeah it looks like a netflix documentary about arizona

honestly for stills i just stopped trying to have one universal preset and instead made like three ? one for golden hour, one for overcast, one for midday harsh light. each one is tuned for the light conditions i actually shoot in and now i spend way less time tweaking. the tweaking every time thing is such a time sink i totally get the frustration with that