A bit off topic, but If I understand you correctly, you mean that in order that have a visually pleasing exposed jpeg SOOC, you have to underexpose the RAW by 1 stop??? So you want to decouple somehow the effect on the jpeg from the RAW exposure.
I am migrating from Fuji to MFT + FF and playing with a Pana GX8. It has what they call image effects. One of them is called low key and underexposes quite a bit. You can also set the contrast curve. By adjusting the highlight and shadows downwards you underexpose the jpeg picture but lose contrast of course.
Other brands have similar settings, but I can’t think of anything else to decouple the jpeg appearance from the RAW exposure.
Ohh! That’s movie time with the wife for me. If I watch this tutorial instead, I’ll have to sleep on the table, in the dark.
I’ll catch it on YouTube tomm
I was recommending darktable to my friend. We are both programmers and do photography as a side hobby. He was trying darktable this week but was not really positive about it. As a last effort I proposed him to watch yesterday live. His comment went something like this:
this program have so many options and mostly I heard “ups, not this”
Are you sure your friend is programmer? I’ve rarelly heard about programmer wanting to put LESS options in or have less controll
Joking aside - yep, darktable has a bunch of stuff going on, but as @anon41087856 showed there’s still room to improve and with current set possibilities to get results “perfect” are there and don’t take much time.
As an aside: I have semi-pro photog friend. Who claims that he hates Adobe with passion and bought Affinity… and still uses lightroom because doesn’t “have time to learn” app he paid $$$ for. It’s a time skunk-cost: why learn something else when what I already know gets me the results I can predict?
Thanks @anon41087856 for the new screencast, again very interesting. I’ve got a follow-up question: Do you consider the edits you did corrective, i.e. setting the baseline for adding a “look” in the next step, or do you consider them final?
You know what? Maybe we are less programmers and more like integration engineers.
After many years of all stuff constantly breaking at the smallest change (MySQL breaking backward compatibility in small update, operating systems breaking after every upgrading, over engineered tools “giving you choice” by having so many configuration options that you need to spend weeks to make it work “acceptably” looking constantly all around docs and internet searching for “why the hell it’s not working?” - OpenStack anyone?) I’m starting to long for simple tools that just works and you don’t need to read enormous manuals and weeks of configuration tinkering to be productive.
More, I’m even more happy to use tools that actively take away my “choices” if this mean I’m more productive (love gofmt or prettier code formatters, code from everyone in every project looking exactly the same and after 3 years fixing bugs in 6M loc in C++ project and trying to understand what “magic from 1234 page of C++ specs” some programmer use this time I run away to Python and then later to Go that give even less “choice” with “only” 120 A4 spec that is understandable by most programmers and not only compiler devs).
Before getting day job I loved tinkering with Linux or programming for myself, now I hate it and I started getting afraid of upgrading Linux to new main versions… Or maybe I’m getting old (34y)?
