Color grading is for bad photographers. That's a very bold statement. Just peel back all those layers and check out if it's really true. First we have to establish what color grading really means. And if you really think about it, say correct, Color grading is a post-production process of alternating the appearance of an image. It can be photo or video, so we call it image. So color grading comes after the process of making your photo. And don't get me wrong, but color grading is very old. I think it's more than 100 years old, especially in photography. It's been used for a long, long, long time. Not as you see it nowadays, but it's been used for a long time. So photography color grading is also very normal to use. Some startups will say that it isn't true to the original subject or person you're photographing. And it's fake. And it reads me to my next subject. Color grading isn't really what you see. So let's compare it to painters. And let's take our favorite painter, Carlton Dutch, let's find go. He was a post-impressionism. He painted post-impressionism. So he's a post-impressionist, probably the right term. He painted what he thought he saw and not really what he really saw. It's a big difference. If you see a painting, is the painting real? That depends if you see a van Gogh. It isn't really what you see. The actual I live is the place where I can go live for a while. A lot of landmarks here are been painting by van Gogh. And although I can recognize it in his sketches or in his paintings, it's still different from what I see in real life. But if you look to the camera and make a photo something, is that real? Well, I think that you can't take a real photo that looks real. You can compare it to something that looks real, but it's never real. Because there are too many variables that make your photo different from the real thing. Like your lens or your color of your camera, the color of your computer, all sorts of settings of your camera. So there's a lot of stuff that makes you photo different. So it's an interpretation of what you see. Same thing with painting, even though painting the painter will try to paint something very realistic. Still, always an interpretation of what you see. Even we as people see things differently. So the way I look at the world and proceed colors and shape of things different from what you see. So there isn't a real thing. It's something that resembles a real thing, but it's never the real thing. It's very important to know. And a painter is also a color grader because the painter is sketching his drawing and he's going to paint over it. And he's color grading his photo, in this case his painting. So it's a photographer than a painter. But you see how complex it is because I've put a photographer isn't a painter, but it does the same thing as a painter because you're painting with light and light ways so that makes you somewhat of a painter. Still, it raises the question, if you made a very good photo and you would color grade it, is the photo better? Or do you make the photo worse? Should we separate the darker in color grading more? So people post a photo and they say I'm the photographer and I'm also the color grader instead of only the photographer. Now the best thing is to do the look at myself. I see photos like I want to show it. So even my tattoo here on my arm, this tattoo, basically says I don't know if you can see it right here. I don't know if I'm focusing on my arm. So this is a doubling of this. So this is the same thing, but it's a copy of it, but it's a copy that's a little bit different. And that's how I see photography. For me, what I photographed, I'm very aware of what I want to show people. I don't care about how it really looks. I want to catch the vibe and the feeling of that moment and make it a little bit better like a beautiful dream. And part of that is my color grading. When I'm shooting photos, I'm already thinking about my color grading process. So even the settings on my camera, if a lot do with the way my presets on my color grading works. So even if I would give my presets to you, the outcome would be very different. Because you don't know my camera settings. You don't know what I do, especially to make my photos have that certain vibe. So one can't live without the other, in my case. So my color grading is as important as my photography. But still, there's a big difference. If I've got interns at my company and they start photography and they make photos and they instantly go into a light room or Photoshop. And just fuck the photo up. I don't want them to do it. I just want them to photograph and don't do light room stuff first. Understand how to photograph and how to make sure that pre-production everything gets in the best way possible. And when you shoot, the things get in the best way possible. And after you start editing, you don't have to do that much. Your color grading comes second. So in my case, it's been well photography is still first. But the color grading is like a perfect sauce on my dish to make it a little more tasty, a little bit more better. Color grading for me is just a tool. Like a camera flash, speed light is a tool. Like AI is a tool. Talking about flash photography, I got a really, really cool course on my YouTube channel. But flash photography, speed light photography, if you want to check it out, it's a three-part course. Very extended. This is everything about flash photography, you want to know. So I've been a little bit tarp for a long time and I know how to use a flash during daylight or evening. Or it doesn't matter how. It's a really cool course and you can find it in my description below. So what I was telling you is like a flash is a tool. Like AI is a tool and color grading is also a tool. A tool I use intensely to make my photos look better. I've used it in my workflow as a star for so workflow is the way I start my photo till the end product of my photo. So when I start thinking of a photo, how I want to make a photo and the end result that I'm letting something in book or something, that whole workflow color grading is a big part of it. So I'm very curious about your opinion about the subject. For me, maybe I'm a little bit in the middle of the road of everything, but I still think you should be a very good photographer. And first, and then start color grading and don't be a color grader first to be a good photographer. But hey, that's just me. Don't take my words for it. 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