Cars and colors in Havana to play with.

[difrkaguilar (Franklin Aguilar Matos)]

Hi,

Cars and colors in Havana to play with.

I have failed miserably trying to recover the colors, especially the yellow and the highlights. I would like to see how others manage to make better use of this image and learn from it.

This is the OCC JPG

RAW (RAF) File
_DSF7627.RAF (48.2 MB)

The files era licensed Creative Commons, By-Attribution, Share-Alike.

Greetings from Havana, Cuba.

[Jean-Marc_Digne (jmdigne)]

Thanks for posting
darktable 4.4.2

_DSF7627_02.RAF.xmp (13.2 KB)

[lightlover]

_DSF7627.RAF.xmp (13.6 KB)

[Zbyma72age]

Fun with GIMP

[Roger.Wilco]

Thanks for the play. My attempt using DT4.4.2

The hardest question to answer was - how red should the red be? Interesting.

_DSF7627.RAF.xmp (16.6 KB)

[age]

_DSF7627.RAF.xmp (12.6 KB)

[lightlover]

_DSF7627.RAF.xmp (17.1 KB)

I gave it a second chance as I wasn’t sure about the hue of yellow.
After some research…

[dqpcoxeas]

My version…

_DSF7627.RAF.xmp (19.7 KB)

[Claes]

Thanks for the play!

Pheeeew… Those were difficult colours; electric red and electric yellow?
Here is result from practising vkdt:

_DSF7627.RAF.cfg (3.5 KB)

I also found you (?):

Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden

[priort (Todd Prior)]

_DSF7627.RAF.xmp (20.0 KB)

I could have likely blurred or cloned/healed out the highlight on the hood… and a small tone eq tweak to the back right corner of the soft top …Great colors and photo…

[Christian-B]

Hello,

Thanks for sharing, it allowed me to test my basic edition.
Here is the first proposal with the basic style to start my treatment…

_DSF7627.RAF.xmp (13.0 KB)

And then some adaptation of local contrast, saturation and brightness, perspective …

_DSF7627_01.RAF.xmp (16.0 KB)
Darktable 4.5
Greetings from Brussels,
Christian

[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

Yes, I love the colors.

dt 4,4,2

_DSF7627.RAF.xmp (10.2 KB)

[Flech (A. Flech)]

_DSF7627.RAF.xmp (8.2 KB)

Darktable 4.4.2 - Tone Curve + Color Zones + Exposure

[josemar127]

Rawtherapee 5.8 + Gimp 2.10.30

[apostel338 (HP)]

___DSF7627.RAF.xmp (12.7 KB)

Edit: I always forget the lens correction on external raws…

[Roger.Wilco]

Yours is definitely the postcard version. I like very much.

[difrkaguilar (Franklin Aguilar Matos)]

@Roger.Wilco

The hardest question to answer was - how red should the red be? Interesting.

The tone of these cars is really saturated. So the yellow and red are really SATURATED YELLOW and RED

@lightlover

I wasn’t sure about the hue of yellow.

This is another picture of the yellow car.

[dqpcoxeas]

Another version…

_DSF7627_02.RAF.xmp (27.1 KB)

[difrkaguilar (Franklin Aguilar Matos)]

@Claes

I also found you (?):

Since I was standing more than 5 meters from the car and the chrome is this shape, it is not reflected. In other words, vampires can resist the sun, but it still does not reflect in the mirrors.

[lightlover]

I saw another car…