here’s my easy LUT-driven take on an old Play RAW image.
the LUT I used can be found here. It’s a homemade Print Film Emulation LUT by a professional colourist from Australia.
seeing as they were developed and used by the film industry in helping to prepare digital intermediates for printing back to film for distribution it seems a reasonable starting point for anything that might be deemed “cinematic”.
_MG_3103.CR2.xmp (15.6 KB)
as you might expect the LUT pushes shadows towards blue and highlights towards yellow, but more interesting - and harder to nail down with your own manual curve adjustments - is the tone mapping.