Darktable's Filmic RGB defaults render this desaturated

Your edit is quite OK. I know the JPEGs aren’t always truthful. Maybe I’ve chosen a bad reference image because nobody but me was there on the scene and even the JPEGs tend to be right, sometimes.

However… everybody knows what a person looks like. :slight_smile:
P1210174.RW2 (18.9 MB)
My fast render (looks human enough to me):


P1210174.RW2.xmp (7.2 KB)

Filmic RGB defaults (looks like it’s about to die soon):