difficult photo

These are some crazy highlights.

I would hire some actors to recreate the photo with better light condition. (sorry :sweat: :man_shrugging:)

This is as far as I can get in 10 min.

DT 3.7

Trabajos garage 2021-09-22–10.24.28.dng.xmp (18.1 KB)

I gave ART a try too, which I am pretty new to. But I already think it handles highlights pretty good and so much easier than DT. I also like the whole outcome more.

Edit: Added a little more contrast.


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My quick stab…xmp in jpg

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Since the highlight is not so interesting, I let it blow out.


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ART

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A proposal, from last darktable master:

Sky is quite hard to deal with…

And the xmp:
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Done very quickly in GIMP, using only luminosity mask plug-in.

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Thanks for posting this play
darktable 3.6.1


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Forgot that

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trabajos.garage.pp3 (20.0 KB) RawTherapee 5.8 Development

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Thank you to all of you, before all because you all gave me the hope that something beautiful was possible. I appreciated @baongoc124 's work, which I took as a base for my result in darktable 3.6:


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I like applying the perspective module and cropping independently of original ratio.

Good results those of @apostel338, @gaaned92, @Nilvus (great sky!), @Jade_NL.

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Lol, this is what DxO Photolab shows me for opening the DNG:

Almost feels like it’s a fisheye lens?

DT 3.7.0+1332


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Filmic handled most of the highlights well, except the few where the sensor seems to be clipped (in my DxO-dng version). Just letting them be white helped… but these are only small spots in the sky in the corner and the light hitting the cart next to the chair.

Maybe filmic’s recovery could’ve helped here, but I was happy with this.

Letting the inside of the house ‘be more bright’ was a case of using tone equalizer and boosting the values that matched the inside of the house. But I had to push it quite a bit, and I think there is a bit too much halo-ing for my taste.

I looked up the camera because I was getting curious, but it’s a 1" sensor compact? Knowing that, wow. It’s sharp and shows quite some dynamic range for a smaller sensor.

Trabajos garage 2021-09-22–10.24.28_dxo.dng (56.1 MB)

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24 mm equiv. You must use the Lens correction module

What is DxO getting you that a FOSS processor isn’t in this case?

It’s just my workflow, so I’m just used to it as a first step.

I like it most because of the lens profiles for me, because a lot of my older lenses are not in lensfun or adobe.

It makes tools which don’t have a full processing pipeline more usable , because a lot of the prep work is already done (for example, I don’t have to rely on Affinity Photo to offer support for a lens or camera body if dxo supports it).
It makes Filmulator much more usable for me for example.

On my older a mount glass with a lot of purple fringing , dxo has done a better job or the defringing then what I was able to manage with ACR or rawtherapee (my tools at that time ).

And it helps my old poor Ultrabook a lot if darktable gets an image that is already demosaiced and corrected. Means it only has to do the color and tone mapping. It noticeable quicker in making changes.

I know I use it a lot , but it’s just my weapon of choice as a preprocessor. I like toying with playraws just as a way to get more experience with different scenes and pictures I wouldn’t take myself that often. So even if I end up getting a look that is almost the same as something that is posted before , I still like trying it to see what happens .

I didn’t try this picture as a pure raw in DT. I still might . I think it would allow to get a bit more range in the sky, because of the highlight reconstruction options in DT (with ACR or DxO you have to accept what they have done with partially clipped highlights ), and I think the demosaicing can be better for finer details with amaze or RCD.
And sometimes dxo can be a life saver with it’s denoising … Sometimes you think it’s the greatest thing ever and then you notice that it’s not doing anything other tools can do as well :). (The old high iso playraw or bread is a good example. Pixel peeping I think ‘only dxo can do this’, but when viewing the whole picture you realize it doesn’t really matter ).

I was just ‘shocked’ when I looked at the pure uncorrected image. I have never seen a lens with such strong vignetting and distortion and fringing (except with aspc lenses on a ff body or something ), but I also didn’t realize yet that it was a compact camera at that time :).


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With ART

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