Difficult orange flower

[dqpcoxeas]

My version…

5D3_0104.CR2.xmp (19.2 KB)

[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

That is excellent, except for the upper stem being completely blue.

[Popanz]

VERY tricky!

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[hanatos (jo)]

just to refresh everyone’s eyes so you can better tell the shades of red/orange apart:

[qmpel (blends colors 🎨)]

Very cool to see all the slighty different edits…

5D3_0104_01.CR2.xmp (16.3 KB)

[Thomas_Do (Thomas)]

I think my edit from Sept. 2021 is ugly:

So I tried again (to fail better).

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[age]

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[chaimav]

Wow, this was a tough one.
5D3_0104.CR2.pp3 (18.1 KB)

[lightlover]

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[xpatUSA (Ted Cousins)]

@ilia3101

Very difficult orange flower pic.

My workinprogress program, preserving tonality (but failing to preserve colourfulness, unnaturally pale):

Rawtherapee 5.8 auto-matched curve, 4400K, very posterised:

Lightroom, also 4400K:

I would say lightroom’s average shade of orange looks most like the actual flower, but this is just a case of lucky clipping.

While how a capture opened and edited with various apps looks is interesting, I like to look at an original image converted by RawDigger which allows no editing at all:

Looks pretty good to me …

[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

@xpatUSA

I like to look at an original image converted by RawDigger which allows no editing at all:

Good idea. I did the same with Image Magick, and got a similarly good rendition.

[Roger.Wilco]

Despite the age of this Play_Raw - this has been quite a learning curve.

My (simpler) 2nd attempt using what I have learnt from other folks *.xmp
My original *xmp was (37.0 KB) whereas, this one is only (15.8 KB).

5D3_0104_02.CR2.xmp (15.8 KB)

[Roberto_Vacchi]

ART 1.20.2
Greetings. Roberto

[Donatzsky (Nis Donatzsky)]

Fairly basic edit. The main thing is that I used gamut compression in color calibration to bring the red channel under control.

Same as before, but I then used the channel mixer to make the flowers more orange.

Both done in darktable. Use the JPEG as sidecar, if you want to see how I did it.

[priort (Todd Prior)]

[sguyader (Sébastien Guyader)]

With ART:

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[aleksandar.mali]

5D3_0104.CR2.arp (24.5 KB)

Did my best in ART

[okke (Olli)]

Tough. Don’t know whether I prefer the flowers red (with filmic) or more orange (with sigmoid)

5D3_0104.CR2.xmp (14.4 KB)

[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

My try with Filmic RGB, custom Local Contrast filter, and masked Color Balance RGB. dt 4.4.2

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[difrkaguilar (Franklin Aguilar Matos)]

Another round…

Pink… why not?

5D3_0104_02.CR2.xmp (14.1 KB)

Greetings from Havana, Cuba.