davinci resolve color grading not in delivery

Often latitude is conflated with dynamic range. Latitude is how far you can recover a picture from over or under exposure. Much more than any capture system can deliver currently. A 16bit EXR file can handle 32 stops of range. It just needs to yield the picture that helps to promote the story you are trying to tell in the shot.

There is no right or wrong way to set this range. We can shift the exposure to be weighted towards the shadows, the highlights, or the Goldilocks sweet spot in the middle. Our imaging device in this example can only handle 8 of the 16 present stops.

This goes from the darkest shadow to direct hot sun. Let’s say you had a scene range of 16 stops. Depending on how you set these variables you can move the total range up or down in the scene. This includes aperture, exposure time and the general sensitivity of the imaging system. The way we expose a sensor or a piece of celluloid changes based on a combination of factors. Someday we will be able to account for every photon in a scene, but until that sensor is made we need to work within the confines of the range that can be capturedįor example if the darkest part of a sampled image are the shadows and the brightest part is 8 stops brighter, that means we have a range of 8 stops for that image.

Davinci resolve color grading not in delivery