Warm, filmic color and a full set of lighting corrections — built over 22 years of weddings.
BLAINE SIESSER PRESETS
I've spent twenty two years photographing weddings — ballrooms, estates, cathedrals, backyards, midnight after-parties.
It's warm without being orange. Filmic without being fake. Bronzed skin, honest color, and grain that feels like something you'd find in a box in your parents' attic.
It's not a look you apply. It's a way of finishing a whole wedding.
Most presets are built for golden hour on a hillside. Then you get to the reception, tungsten uplighting, a flash on a bracket, a dance floor lit like a parking garage, and the look falls apart.
More than half of this system is lighting scenarios: sixteen presets that handle backlight, window light, overcast shade, direct flash, and six flavors of tungsten. They aren't looks. They're corrections, the unglamorous work that makes a 2,700-image gallery hold together from getting-ready to last call.
That's the difference between a preset pack and an editing system.
WHAT'S INSIDE
The Foundation - BASE — the starting point for every image
Lighting Scenarios (16) Backlit · Window · Overcast Shade · Flash 1–5, 7, 8 · Tungsten 1–6
Built from real wedding conditions. Ballroom tungsten, on-camera flash, dim receptions, flat afternoons — corrected before you ever touch a grade.
Color Grades (8) Bronzy · Bronzy + · Bronzy 2 · Bronzy 2 + · Warm · Contrasty · Teal · Trendy
The Bronzy family is the heart of it sun-warmed skin, rich neutrals, a little patina. Four intensities so you can dial the feeling rather than commit to it.
Finishing (6) Add Contrast · Sharpness & Grain 1–5
Five grain structures, from barely-there to full analog texture.
Color Grading Tutorial with Blaine Siesser - How to color grade and use the system.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Base. Start every image from the same foundation. 2. Correct. Choose the lighting scenario that matches the room. 3. Grade. Pick your color. Adjust the intensity. 4. Tweak to Taste with included reference photos 5. Finish. Add grain and contrast to taste.
WHO IT'S FOR
Photographers who shoot weddings start to finish and need a gallery that reads as one body of work. Hybrid shooters who want their digital files to sit next to film scans without a seam. Anyone who's tired of fighting a reception.
THE COLOR PHILOSOPHY
Color should be true. Greens read green, reds read red, skin reads like skin. The warmth here comes from light, not from a filter laid on top.
Twenty Two years of weddings, in one system.
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