BRANDON LI’S LOW LIGHT SONY A7SIII TEST

Another project I color graded for Brandon Li this time testing low-light Slog-3 footage from the newly released Sony A5SIII with ISO ranging from 640 – 1250. Brandon wanted to go for a David Fincher Fight Club look so the footage made perfect sense here.

Lit exclusively with available artificial lighting this look needed a bit of massaging, but again the Sony A7SIII 10-bit color depth footage helped to preserve shadow and highlight detail.

I have to say that this really was a fun look, primarily because color grading low light footage from prosumer cameras cannot be typically stretched much before falling apart, let alone dealing with noise, but this Slog3 was shining.

SourceBrandon Li
EditorBrandon Li
Color Grading – Gabriel Bucataru