Print Emulation LUT
A 2383-style print LUT that imposes photochemical shoulder and toe, so a log file tastes like cinema rather than broadcast.
What it does
A print emulation LUT, typically modelled on Kodak 2383 or Fuji 3513 display print stocks, takes a log image and imposes the shoulder, toe and colour vector of a photochemical print. Emotionally it is the taste of cinema as an object: blacks denser than broadcast, highlights that compress instead of clipping to video white, a slight tobacco or yellow-green in the mids. David Fincher's digital features with Jeff Cronenweth, from The Social Network to Gone Girl, are graded as if they still had to survive a print, which is why they feel like films rather than like television files. Greig Fraser and colourist Dave Cole pushed The Batman toward a wet, print-dense night rather than a Rec.709 comic book. Use it as a finishing grammar on otherwise modest, motivated lighting. Do not stack it on top of a bleach-bypass LUT, a teal-orange preset and a heavy mist filter, or you will have a look with no scene underneath.
The prompt
Replace [Subject] with what you are shooting. Everything else is deliberate: the gear, stock and lighting are what push a generator towards this look.
Works well in
Runway Gen-3, Flux, Adobe Firefly
Pairs with
Tungsten 500T StockDaylight 50D Stock
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