I was blessed that morning, a flock of chamois right on my path, and quite close to me.
And of course, in the middle of the fog… Trentino_estate_2021_0290.CR2 (27.9 MB)
Here my attempted recovery, I spent roughly 10 minutes, didn’t have much time…
Interesting, I didn’t know about this.
Anyhow, I load the jpg as a sidecar, but the result in darktable doesn’t look very similar to the jpg, actually.
It looks like all fine details are gone (as if smaller scales of a wavelet decompose have been removed).
Could it be a difference in the darktable version? Or maybe in the order of modules?
Just remove astro denoise …there was some luma noise in the grass I didn’t like …that likely affects the detail…I will have to go back to the edit and look at the modules added that might impact the detail…I am using recent dev build so maybe as well if your’s is older it might have a slightly different output??
EDIT:
I went back and edited it again…this time I tried to tone the browns a bit…I have not seen these particular animals before so hard to know the right look for them…one done with color zones and one with color lookup I think I like the color lookup one more… (second one) but I just did it quickly at work on an uncalibrated monitor so not sure how it will look elsewhere…
That’s a hard one! I’ve tried my best, combining several different preadjustments I have… Perhaps a bit overcooked, but it’s what I can do in bit more than 5 minutes.
Thank a lot everybody. I really love how this thread is flowing.
And I’ve actually realized that one way to cope with the fog is turn to a film look and add some nice grain, that allows to “cover up” for the foggy look.
I really like some of the interpretations in this direction.
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And added even more with an inverse graduate density gradient.
