Bee macro -- always having trouble with colors in darktable, especially macros (sony a6400)

Great capture :+1:


MJD04337.ARW.xmp (14.7 KB)

I did use the input profile of my A7iv, but that shouldn’t make too much of a difference. Otherwise I applied some (rather sloppy) masking for sharpening, because I normally don’t want to sharpen the noise, but just the main features of the insect/flower/…

Other than that, hmm … oh yes, I made sure that the beatiful colors don’t get bleached by filmic, balancing the white relative exposure, the highlight saturation in color balance rgb and using the tone eq to dim the highlights.

All in all a quick and standard edit. The picture didn’t need more to shine.

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