Best practice for "unexpected white balance coefficients" in darktable

[ggbutcher (Glenn Butcher)]

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The idea of an objective color correction style for my camera separate from reusable creative color styles was appealing. However, I don’t know if that’s really realistic for the example photos I posted, which involve nighttime and multiple low-CRI lighting sources. Now that I understand how crazy subjective and context-dependent color can be, maybe I just need to fiddle with each photo until I like the result.

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Snow is white...

There is a standard example in theories of truth, which reads, “The statement ‘snow is white’ is true, if and only if, snow is white”. I was out early this morning looking for a good sunrise (didn’t happen, complete cloud cover). However, I did get this shot. The lights at the end of the bridge are old-fashioned sodium ones. The question is, should I correct the lighting to make the snow a blue-white colour, or should I leave it as it was illuminated? [_CTW7361] _CTW7361.NEF (49.1 MB) _CTW7…