We had a pretty intense rainbow recently and this crow was posing quite nicely in front of it. I always struggle with developing rainbows, so I’m curious to see how others approach it.
20260831-1945-020_0.raf (30.0 MB, CC BY-NC-SA)
Btw: All hail to the mighty IBIS, saviour of these shots, as I accidentally had my camera set to 1/60s while using 192mm FF-equiv. 
The problem is not really with developing rainbows, but with capturing them properly.
Therefore, if you have two cameras (or a camera and a phone), it would be interesting to see if they struggle equally.
“Cool birds don’t look at rainbows”
Lovely thread title and picture!
Colour calibration on the sky top right. It turned the tree/bird orange, and I could have kept them neutral with another CC instance, but I figured it’s sunset so keep them that way. Needed a bit of masking for contrast equaliser’s colour boosts. There’s a green band on the left, that’s not just a CE artifact (xmp has a mask change to mitigate it a little)
Yes indeed!
I eagerly await the book. And the movie.
my try in SRGB:
color calibration - I left parts of the warmth
rainbow - tried to balance the saturation of the different colors with color equalizer, an saturate the rainbow generally with a combined masking
and for HDR screens JXL HLG P3:
20260831-1945-020_0.jxl (438.5 KB)
darktable 5.6.1 xmp:
20260831-1945-020_0.raf.xmp (14.2 KB)
Okay, let’s test another newly announced RAW editor — this time, CalibRaw.
I like that touch of red. Not that obvious rainbow though.
Not sure if I like what I did here
darktable + spektrafilm module
I like it…
Where’s your doubt originating from?
I was trying to go for a warm sunlight glow, but I think I archived an yellow piss filter.
Right, before knowing your opinion I regarded your image as having a warm golden glow. Now I’m not so sure anymore…
Sorry, just kidding, the first part of my reaction is true, the second part just joking.
I think you’ve achieved what you wanted…
Kind regards, Jetze
Here is my DT 5.6 edit. I did a color calibration module measurement of the scene to reset the color from the warm tone captured in the camera. I then cranked up the contrast slider in AgX which raises both contrast and saturation. More work could be done on the edit but I wanted to keep my steps simple so they could be followed.
20260831-1945-020_0.raf.xmp (8.7 KB)
