https://pho.tography.org/tags/colour-grading/ Recent content in colour grading on pho.tography.org Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/night-street-photography-on-a-fast-telephoto-the-technical-choices-behind-a-cinematic-frame/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/night-street-photography-on-a-fast-telephoto-the-technical-choices-behind-a-cinematic-frame/ A frame like this one looks like a still from a film, and people usually credit the grade for that. The grade is the last five percent. Everything that makes it read as cinema was decided at the moment of shooting: how far back I stood, what focal length I put between me and the subject, how much of the background I let dissolve, and which of the four or five competing light sources I let win.