Been a while again since I last opened a play-raw huh?
Just like my first play-raw, here’s another photo of a harris hawk shot last year in Stará Ľubovňa. I struggled a lot to edit this in a way that I’d be satisfied with, but I think I finally got it.
Previously I tried using Filmic as well, but v5 / no combo shifted the yellows waaaay too much, so I came back to Sigmoid.
I think its your WB choice…setting it away from the one you landed on which was for quite a warm illuminant to daylight lands in on a really nice edit using all your other settings as is but I think the blue is coming from your choice of WB…
The blue(ish) eye was the result of me changing it using a masked instance of Color Balance RGB. I rotated the color of the eye 180deg.
The cool wb was originally chosen to maximize the seperation of hues which facilitates masking. If I was making a serious attempt on this photo I would have changed the look later.There were already so many edits which were pretty good that my feeble attempt would just add noise…so I decided on doing something fun instead
All good. I though you might be suspecting some color shift from filmic…the wrist of the glove became a funky color blue with a CA along the border and I though you were querying the “cool” shift…sounds like you did it on purpose…
I was afraid that the way I posted might lead to people to think me more serious than I wanted. Thats why I decided to post a correction. We have a lot of newer people who are just learning darkatable and struggling with how it does things. I decided I didnt want to contribute to misconceptions.
The purple/blue CA is in the original. Your choices in contrasts and color tints can effect it (opposing color will neutralize it to varying degrees). I also didnt really pay very close attention, for reasons I already stated, but its easily fixed.
Here is the same basic photo without the eye color change, better CA correction, and a second instance of Color Cal for the background (to warm things up). This is close to what I would have made if I wasn’t messing around.
Yeah, the often insane blue CA is my least favorite part of this kit 70-300mm… But if the contrast is not too high, it performs decently well and the compact size makes it good for travelling.
Its still 200% better than on my old Canon EF 30-70mm. I am lucky a sony a6500 with an ok lens has been given to me on semi-permanent loan, or else I would still be fighting with CA. I did get pretty adept at “fixing” CA in darktable because every photo had to have major changes…so there is an upside I guess
