A very quick play in GIMP using only colours that exist in the original.
This was a very difficult task, because you had to do a lot of corrections before you could do the color task. And the result is accordingly rather bad.
Based on the original colors, I think a tetrad with a primary pair (pastel blue-green) and a complementary pair (saturated red-pastel brownish) fits here:
My try:
sunset_04.cr2.xmp (23,6 KB)
I agree with @s7habo , the trickiest part is at the correction stage, but here’s my try
1st variation:
sunset.cr2.xmp (40.2 KB)
2nd variation:
sunset_04.cr2.xmp (45.6 KB)
dt 3.7
Thank you everyone for the helpful examples of how to process this challenging photo!
A little late, but anyway…
Simple tools, I just cranked up the HSL saturation a bit, and used a second white balance to crank down the blue and crank up the red. A contrasty filmic, and 'ere y’go, in rawproc:
Got a weird upper-left and bottom-right vignette going in the raw; if I were industrious, I’d take it to GIMP and do a proper vignette…
Another attempt in GIMP. I made a selection of the sky and then gradually increased the saturation of various regions using my saturation mask plugin. It is slightly more realistic than my previous try, but I am still not convinced by the result!
@s7habo I’m not sure what you exactly do to come from a paletton palette from their website to the exact adaptions in darktable, but that didn’t keep me from trying it by:
- clicking together a suitable set of colors and color harmony on paletton website
- trying to come as close to the colors with darktable modules color calibration and color balance RGB - but just using my eyes
Is there a more “scientific” or measureable way of changing an image to meet an color harmony created on paletton?
sunset_06.cr2.xmp (9.2 KB)
Please do not! Use the color harmony only as orientation / inspiration. Do not limit yourself unnecessarily. You will already recognize yourself whether the colors fit or not.
Hi, this is my attempt with complementary colors (hue 20 and 200) e without seagull (too difficult to manage for me).
sunset.cr2.xmp (15.2 KB)
Interesting challenge!
Here is my attempt:
sunset.cr2.xmp (11.8 KB)
I did almost everything with color balance rgb and with masks (4 different instances, to get the colors I wanted in the sky, in the water, and the warm reflections in the water)
Nice, I like the orange reflected in the waves!