How to achieve this look?

[Sascha Haber]

You light correctly, you use proper lenses add a ton of CGI

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[Clark Bierbaum]

Production Design, Art Direction, and, as Sascha said, Lighting, Camera and CGI.

Don’t let clients bring in poorly executed crap and blame you for it not looking like a TEAM of PROFESSIONALS shot it. Some of my easiest sessions have been the highest budget productions. ALL of my worst sessions were triage on poorly planned, poorly executed, “fix it in post” shoots.

Not being a smart ass (much) but there is a lot more than just color grading going on here, bet the initial “look” only took three to five nodes / layers, before windowing.

[Sascha Haber]

Clark, is need to pay a beer or a few for those words…
Story of my life 🙂

Resolve 11.3 – Smoke 2015 EXT1 – Sapphire 8
Colorist / VFX Guru / Aerial footage nerd
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[Marc Wielage]

The best way to achieve that look is great cinematography, lots of skill, and lots of time.

My observation is that hue vs. sat curves can be very powerful. Look at it this way: consider emphasizing what you want, and deemphasizing what you don’t want.