Skin has to hold.
Faces cannot feel muddy, plastic, or accidental. Clean skin makes the room feel controlled before a word is spoken.
Mount Up Media: Tampa Colorist for HDR and Dolby Vision Finishing
Mount Up Media is the Tampa colorist room led by Dee Mount, a Blackmagic Design certified and Dolby Vision certified colorist. The room delivers HDR mastering, color grading, and finishing for brand films, commercials, documentaries, music videos, and feature work. Dee is the Director of Photography on Ring of Fire, a feature documentary and Sundance invitee releasing June 2026.
The color services include full-pipeline DP and color grading on Mount Up Media productions, plus standalone color finishing for outside footage shot on RED, ARRI, Sony, Blackmagic, and Canon cinema cameras. Typical brand and commercial grades deliver in three to seven business days from picture lock. Feature work is scoped per project. Service area is Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Sarasota, Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville, and remote color delivery anywhere in the United States.
Index / Color
Tampa colorist for Dolby Vision finishing and HDR delivery.
Dee Mount is a Blackmagic Design certified and Dolby Vision certified colorist in Tampa, FL. Color grading and HDR finishing for brand films, commercials, documentaries, music videos, and outside footage. Color is where the image decides how expensive, honest, and intentional the brand feels.
Blackmagic Certified
Dolby Vision Certified
HDR Delivery Ready
01 / Why Color
The offer has to read.
Liquor, apparel, cars, food, and interiors all need color that feels premium without breaking what the product actually is.
The frame has to survive the screen.
HDR finishing protects highlight detail, shadow shape, and color density for premium displays and clean SDR versions.
The Color Room
The camera negative is only the start.
Every look on this page is built to show the same frame in three states: Log, Rec.709, and final grade. When the media is ready, this becomes a proof page for what changes in the grade, not a vague style board.
02 / Compare
Camera negative.
The flat source frame with room for exposure, contrast, and color decisions.
Clean transform.
The technical baseline for review, client notes, SDR exports, and approvals.
Buyer-facing image.
Contrast, color density, skin, and brand tone shaped for the final placement.
Color grading services
Show the client what changed.
Every card becomes a sales tool. Raw shows the capture. Rec.709 shows the technical baseline. The final grade shows the image the buyer judges.
Book color review →03 / Looks
Bleach bypass
Lower saturation, heavier contrast, stronger texture.
Orange and teal
Warm skin separation against cooler shadows and environments.
Low con commercial
Soft contrast, clean product reads, and controlled highlight rolloff.
High contrast dramatic
Deep blacks, carved light, and stronger subject separation.
Bold saturated
Color-forward frames for music, product, and launch work.