Meet my black-and-white dog. His name is Exposure Challenge.
Getting good detail in both the black and white areas white fur is tough on a good day. I was looking at posts like this and this on how to handle it. This scene is giving me a lot of trouble.You can see in the histogram that I’m clipping a lot in the red channel, but it’s under-exposed a lot.
Not necessarily, it depends on the photo. In your example, I had to make a lot of corrections (overexposure, colour cast, backlighting) which made the editing more complex.
In order to save you a lot of work afterwards, I would recommend to pay attention to these problems already when taking the photo.
Thanks for the link. I’ve seen that Boris has videos, but I’ve mostly been watching Bruce Williams and Rico Richardson.
As a noob who only does photography for a hobby (i.e. limited time), it’s hard to decide who to watch and which ones.
I’ve noticed a lot of content uses display-referenced modules and workflow. When I see a video using DT 2.x-series, it’s tough to decide whether to watch or skip. Sure, a lot of it is relevant, but you don’t know how much until you commit to watch it. Since I’m learning on 3.8, seeing content using mostly scene-referenced modules seems more helpful.
The other issue with trying to consume massive amounts of video content is trying to find something that’s likely on-topic to photos in your collection or a specific photo. Do I really want to watch a video where the sample is street photography if I just imported a snow day outside with the dogs? For having a specific amount of time available to watch videos, you have to be selective about it.
I used to hate sitting down to watch YouTube instructional videos (still do). But the video format is great for all of the “worked examples” and steps. And the Play Raw section is nice to browse. I do appreciate everyone’s contributions.
It’s a long standing thread…while you are correct there can still be useful content in older videos…Boris’s thread span quite a long string of videos. his last 10 or so are really a must watch…your time will be well spent working your way up the thread from the end towards the start
If you simply want to have an instruction, it’s a waste of time - but the also using darktable is a waste of time.
To benefit from the capabilities of darktable you need to know, how to deal with different issues that might occur also in quite different scenes.
The more instructional videos explaining the tools are great to get a basic overview on darktables capabilities. It’s like explaining how to use a brush and paint by an users manual
The more practical and workflow oriented videos are great to learn how to use these in practice by example. Becoming experienced isn’t a result of watching videos but practicing and transferring the guidance of videos into own experience
@ akgt94 I think the original overall mood is quite good. May just add a little bit of sharpening. The white re-balance kills the mood IMHO.
@ gaaned92 I think it’s too greenish.
@ age Nice.
There seems to be a desire here for warm tones in the picture. I tweaked my previous image with some color toning and ciecam. DSC06731-2.jpg.out.pp3 (32.2 KB)
