My wife asked me to take a picture of the blue sky between the mountains and the clouds. When I took the picture I didn’t look at it in the camera. When I loaded the RAW a day after I immediately wanted to throw it away. But then, my wife wanted to see a picture. I took a closer look. It turned out that I find it difficult to get it developed in a way that gives enough contrast to the clouds and the darks in the foreground. Fortunately dynamic range is sufficient.
In addition this picture was shot wiht electronic shutter (12 instead of 14 bit) and stored in cRAW (compressed format). I never found this to be a problem, though.
And a last one from me. Sorry for this flood of edits but I’m testing at the moment heavily with this AgX Mapper to come - this one is as well done with it.
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This is actually my first playraw post using darktable (I’ve been using ART and RawTherapee usually before). Much more of a learning curve with darktable, but I feel the effort is beginning to pay off. What I really like in darktable is that it is possible to have multiple instances of any module.
Harri
This is one of my first attempts of playing with the color look up table. This module which is new to my personal workflow and seems to work in a similar way to color zones and color equalizer but as with most modules in DT just a little bit differently. I liked that I could get a blue sky in an overexposed region of the sky. I also doubled up on using color equalizer to help out here. I have made myself a preset to add blue chroma and darken blues to simulate the look often achieved with a polarising filter.
Although some might think of me as a dedicated dt-basher, I am highly impressed by how dt has “restored” the blues and the blown raw highlights, as opposed to RawTherapee in which I’ve tried and failed several times for this topic!
I have the same problem as @cedric
Retinex brought a hint of blue, and with Selective Editing it finally somewhat more than the first hint. But far away from the DT results!
