Cuckoo - Problems with color balance

Whether or not that is the intended use, it seems to work fairly well. I am still trying to see what the downside is.
This is the image with just neutral profile, auto-match tone curve, and exposure compensation.


DSC00178-neutral.jpg.out.pp3 (14.9 KB)

Now here is the same thing with +10 Red and +40 green.
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just zoom in for about 200% and have a look at her hair…

this won’t happen by carefully using the poor man dehaze of @heckflosse, giving the black-point-params -8,9,-10 in this case.

@lightlover, i think your edit already takes out the greenish tint very well
here my try with RT dev:

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You pushed it farther than I did. Try +10 red and +40 Green. Hair looks fine.

ahem, thats your pp3 on my screenshot…

Ah, the 1st one. Sorry.

@priort or anyone - my knowledge is limited. Maybe I misunderstood or mis-remember the comment about correct white balance.
Is it the case that if you use anything other than “Camera Reference” in White Balance module then you are changing the primaries, which invalidates assumptions in some modules, and results in less colour fidelity?
Whereas if you use cam.ref. and do the white balancing in Color Calibration (as I’ve been doing until quite recently) then there’s no issue?

dt 3.9

I did a lot of tinkering, so there is a long history, but you can always compress it.

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Nope…check your original post…very obvious…in the hair along the forehead

screen clip from that …

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Although I am not sure we are all talking about the same edit anymore :slight_smile:

@priort BTW, this is a good crop if you would like to take another stab at the Play Raw.

Ha Ha…just a quick windows snippet I did with zero thought to show the hair issue but you are right its not a bad crop now that I look at it…and a good example that really the rest of the image doesn’t offer that much, has a lot of the cast in it and shrinks the subject compared to what you would get in this crop…

IMHO the original edit was already quite good in terms of reaching a neutral colour rendition, which could be a good start for further colour grading.

I also tried to achieve a very neutral look by only using “color calibration”:

  • sample neutral gray from eye (as mentioned a couple of times already)
  • fine-tuning illuminant manually
  • mix some green to the red and blue colour channels in order to remove some of the green tint from the skin and the bark

Additionally I used the tone equailizer to tame the high dynamic-range.


DSC00178.ARW.xmp (21.4 KB)

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