This is Claire. After 15 wonderful years, we had to say goodbye to her on Monday last week. I’ve spent more hours than I know how to count since then going through photos from the whole 15 years and reprocessing them from scratch.
Mixed lighting photos are always an interesting challenge, I thought I’d let others play with this one as well. Side note: the toy she’s holding is the Clarice character from the old Rudolph Christmas special she was named after.
I’m including an extra photo below just to serve as a more neutral lighting reference for her fur color, just informational (besides, even this one is processed to taste):
Thank you for the kind words, and for spending some time with the photo of my friend.
I think I could not get my colors from the CAT tab of color calibration alone, but had to use some channel mixing on the RGB tabs, followed by some masking with color balance RGB to balance out the blue side-effects I caused. I had fun with it. Feel free to go wild. Claire looks so stately in these examples, but more often was all smiles and motion.
Can’t say I ever bothered figuring out the colour calibration module, and darktable is throwing a warning at me for leaving the colour temperature module on, but I don’t care, I work by eye and this looks pretty good to me.
Thanks for sharing, Claire looks like one of the best good girls.
I’m sorry to read, that such a beautiful creature isn’t anymore. i hope this edit does justice to her.
At least it reads like you had 15 Years of Joy and fun with her.
Here is my take, using RT Dev and starting from one of my custom presets named ‘Bright 2’ (not to be confused with ’ Bright 1’ ). Bright 2.pp3 (16.9 KB)
She is. Funny story though: one time my wife was walking her in the small U.S. mid-western town her mother lives in, and some random resident told her Claire was an Irish Setter (Claire had darker fur than the average Golden). When my wife politely corrected him, he told her she was wrong, ha!
Ironically, my uncles used to breed Irish Setters. I’ve known many, and I’m pretty sure I can tell the difference.
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