Hi Duke, I just went through the first few replies and your response, and this might not be the long term solution but more of a quick fix. What I incur from your query is that you need a hands on grading preset, just the way LuTs claim to be. What I’d personally suggest for smaller projects is shooting a few test shots or images on location or similar setups and testing an LuT on the same. Try mix and match with layers of brightness/saturation. Once done, here’s the tricky advice I’m sure would receive a lot of flak here. Shoot FOR the desired set of LUTs you’ve fixed.
As I mentioned this is not and shouldn’t be the solution but rather a fix. The reason behind suggesting this was that I got familiar with LuTs and their spectral mood swings through this process in the beginning and slowly figured out with constant fiddling over a couple of months.
Hope this helps.
Good luck with the gRADe