Post-Production : Looking for books/resources on colour grading recommendations by Martina Cook

Here's a great book that helped me tremendously: https://www.amazon.com/Color-Correction-Handbook-Professional-Techniques...

Here's a great article on color correction, grading: https://www.thehurlblog.com/cinematography-online-7-tips-for-hd-color-co...

That’s great! Thanks :)

MixingLight.com, LowePost.com, LiftGammaGain.com

Thanks! :)

if you are using Premiere Pro: https://blog.frame.io/2018/05/21/premiere-lumetri-guide/

Learn the importance of correctly balancing your monitors. Learn what Pluge is. Learn to have access to color bars with Pluge that are properly displaying so one can learn how to balance a monitor.

I'm getting a screen calibration kit for monitor balancing, do I also need color bars tests?

Not only do you need color bars on your screen, you have to verify they are displaying correctly by using a Waveform and a Vectorscope. Plus you need color bars that have pluge. So many projects end up crushing the black levels its somewhat surprising to me.

Alexis von Hurkman's book includes a section on how to do color calibration correctly. There's more to it than just buying a probe, and if you get a bad probe you won't get reliable results. And without a color management system that works with your NLE and/or color grading software, you won't get reliable results.

Check out the SpectraCal and Light Illusion web sites. The are the best in the biz (Technicolor uses SpectraCal's tools its color management for example). Light Illusion's software is less expensive, but SpectraCal's is easier to use. Both offer start small and move up options, and both also sell reliable color probes.

Have been meaning to pick up Alexis von Hurkman's book, Rakesh Malik. Thanks for the recommendation.

Martina Cook, I once did a podcast interview with a colorist who worked on films like 12 Year a Slave, Iceman, Percy Jackson, and the conversation helped me get a better sense of a colorist's workflow: http://podcast.nsavides.com/BradleyGreer

Thank you all, great stuff :)