Reds are very often a challenge in digital photography. I found these articles to be of great help:
Personally, I always have to resist the temptation to push my reds too far — overly vibrant reds often look more attractive to me; people with orange faces, though… not so much!
So here’s my version in darktable 4.2.1. I guess the main takeaways are I tweaked white balance with a second CC module where I reduced the blue channel until the white T-shirt was exactly white, then backed off a bit since the image felt too warm. Then Color Balance RGB masked to the red jacket, reduced brilliance and tweaked the hue a tiny bit towards orange. I also masked out the red clothes and bags in the shop and reduced their saturation, so they wouldn’t compete with the foreground.
I also never saw any hint of pink highlights. I always autoapply Highlight Reconstruction module in Inpaint Opposed mode.
With this stack (dropped exposure, disabled filmic; highlight reconstruction using inpaint opposed), you see some tint:
Raising the exposure and enabling filmic v6 in maxRGB mode:
Same, with legacy chromatic adaptation (white balance = as shot, color calibration disabled):
Absolutely, I don’t doubt that. My point is more that it isn’t necessary to be bothered by them anymore. I don’t remember seeing them at all unless I explicitly do something to get them since before 4.0.
Very nice. I’m on my tablet at the moment but will have a look on my laptop later. Thanks.
