Côte d'Azur : Théoule-sur-Mer

Have fun, folks.

This is my over-the-top use of my beloved polarising filter. Zero reflection, a playground for saturation.

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Let me know your chain of thought :slight_smile:, if you have any.
I use RawTherapee, from the dev branch.
The HaldCLUT is one I found here for fuji X-H1 + Astia, it’s a more contrasty base than the one available on github for x-trans III sensors.
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In ART, Rawtherapee and Darktable the image is all green.

haha, not if you switch the WB module on :smiley:

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darktable 5.0.1


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The “as-shot” white balance from the metadata is 0.980,1.000, 0.996, which is bogus, doesn’t even correct the spectal skew of the bayer array. I found the WhiteBalance makernote tag set to Preset1, so whatever you set WB to in the preset is what’s being presented to the software.

In rawproc, I mitigated that with a simple auto white balance, bit too red so I dialed down the red channel. I gave it a bit of color saturation, then applied a very slight S-curve with the control-point curve. Finally, a crop I like:

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Found the reason for all green. Auto White Balance somehow failed in all 3 programs. If I set to Daylight all is good.

ART with AgX (Kodak film and paper):

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Revisited, using the tone equalizer to bring up the foreground.


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It’s intended to be these values — they were obtained via UniWB (essentially a way to get as close as possible to 1, 1, 1 multipliers, in-camera, to allow for (more or less) reliable ETTR. The primary reason for that: I sometimes digitise negatives and I need the histogram to make use of the dynamic range as much as possible. The secondary reason for that: it’s also a nice way to see, in-camera, if a channel is actually close to clipping.

In the end, for real world pictures, I just use the WB module in RT. :slight_smile:

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my version in RT 5.12_rc2:


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Love the image. Screams for X-pan imho. My teal version is maybe a touch too much :slight_smile: .


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Rawtherapee and GIMP

In my teal sky era


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Yeah, I remembered UniWB after I posted, I tried it once and it seemed like too much fuss in the middle of shooting. I’m using my camera’s highlight-weighted metering now, yep, I don’t usually get all the available headroom, but I prefer having one less thing to think about when I’m composing.

@gigaturbo

I quite like the idea of this gradient!
Not having DT installed, could you perhaps tell me a bit about how it’s done?


@Zbyma72age Reminds me of expired Kodak EliteChrome slides: the density, the saturation and how the white balance really is a blue balance :rofl:
The foreground contrast is quite nice, too!


oh so green so green :smiley:


Nicely done, too, very natural. A bit dark (dense), to my taste, for such a bright Spring day.

Thanks for posting the image. I had a good play with RT 5.11 and tried to keep the colours and tones ‘summery’, i.e., kept the saturation temptations at bay, but did fuss a bit with ‘colourfulness’ and a subtle neutral density gradient in the sky. Not sure it was subtle enough :slight_smile:

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DT 5.0. First try here on pixls.us.

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ART, AgX, do not go overboard with blue:

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BTW gorgeous view, can I retire there? :slight_smile:

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Excellent edit! Welcome to pixls.us

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