so after taking 20min to upload 25 pics five by five, i’m greeted by a “fuck you, you are new”, so here are 4 pictures… point of the post entirely defeated… cheers
Second time using darktable with a6700 raws. Still struggling a bit but i like it overall.
I used the ooc jpegs for reference and it was a good idea as DT (contrary to my first time using it on a different type of pictures) had a bit of trouble with the colors… Yellows especially was very undersaturated and some blues were “wrong” (compared to sony jpg).
Anyways i’m at a point where i don’t know anymore how saturated and processed my pics should look ^^"… Interested about some feedback on those small pics…
The pictures have been resized and sharpened for web on photoshop, and i used ACR to straighten some as DT’s tool is really not good. Also struggled with chromatic aberrations in DT but i think i was doing it wrong and should look in the lens correction module…
Welcome to the forum. I presume the limitation for first time posters may be against vicious bots. Only guessing. PlayRaw can be a great way to learn how to improve your editing skills in DT.
This is not a great way to start off. We have measures in place to make things as nice as they can be here. Sorry if you found them to be a hindrance, but you were not greeted by. “Fuck you.”
Nice shots, I especially enjoy the last one. The colours are lush and pleasing to look at.
I struggle to judge whether saturation is set right as well but you nailed it in my opinion.
What do you mean by “used ACR to straighten some as DT’s tool is really not good”? Straightening in dt is fairly straight foward in my opinion. Which tool/module did you struggle with?
And I agree with Terry: playraw is a great way to learn. Especially when you post your RAW with a specific question like “how would you deal with the chromatic aberrations”.
And welcome to the forum, maybe dial down the profanity… I am glad you had to select your favourites. I enjoy looking at four carefully selected photos way more then looking through a large number. Kill your darlings ;-).
I use rotate and perspective module, and on those kind of car pictures it is mostly not used, but on architectural shots, it really does not perform really well. Am also guilty of using it too much but crooked pictures bother me esp. shot with UGAs, which to no forgive a lot.
I also agree on quality over quantity but in this case i would’ve prefered to be able to show more for the discussion and evaluation.
And sorry for the big words.
Hey, great shots, and welcome to the forum… nice bit of nostalgia in those last few shots… 1990’s BMW E30 M3 ?? and Corolla ?? (not really sure about the Toyota)
Did you use the module, or the right-click this-line-should-be-vertical shortcut? The right-click-and-draw on a line you want to be vertical or horizontal is fairly foolproof, although I often have to give it a couple of tries — which must be down to how I drew my line.
The full-module geometric correction I do find rather baffling. Just because I haven’t put the effort into learning it yet. I don’t much do architecture!
As well as lens corrections, there is a specific module for Chromatic Aberrations.
I know the feeling. I’ve been using darktable for two or three years now, and probable err towards understated. But I processed pics from one [Indian classical] concert, this week, thought they were good, but when I looked the next day, thought, “Oh my god, this is technicolour! What did I do?”
I like my camera’s jpegs. I’m happy to use them if time doesn’t allow for raw development. Since my first attempt with raw, I’ve given up comparing with them. Some things the camera will do better (Manufacturer’s secret sauce), some things, like multi-complexion skin tones under weird light, it won’t.
No i used the module and edge detection.Vertical shift when using the module sort of works usually but with more complex stuff it loses his mind. Still need to study the module i guess.
Good idea about the line thing forgot about it.
Yeah the module for chromatic abberation did not satisfy me at all (maybe user error). In ACR, you select purple fringe and the size in pixels and its done. In DT, CA module you have red or blue, i played a bit on a picture with heavy purple fringing and it was not doing its job AND removing fringes from good parts of the picture. I read but didn’t try that you have to mess about in the lens correction module for this purple stuff.
I will beg to differ. I use this module a lot. It is excellent at straightening tilted buildings or artwork shot at an angle. Share a shot you struggle with as a playraw and hopefully we can demonstrate how good it is at fixing crooked horizons, and distorted rectangles.
A feeling many recognize … In the end you’ll de cide for yourself whats best.
What I regularly do is make two or more instances of a picture. One with a lot of pop en one with less pop. Time tells me mostly which one I like better.
Depends on the subject a lot too! For cars I would ‘naturally’ use more pop. For nature it’s hanging in the balance with me.
The best results regarding chromatic abberations I get with the lens correction module.
Even if there is no lens data available. In this cases I simple choose a similar lens and manual correction and exclude other corrections.
As written, when no data is there I choose more or less a random lens, choose override and do the corrections with the sliders manually. That works astonishing good. Even though it’s a bit fiddely.
With my new lenses there are all data embedded and they have not much to correct anyway.
