I got inspired to work on a method for emulating film halation in darktable. After a little more testing, I plan to share this method of emulating film halation, because I think it is new (at least to me).
Anyways, enjoy and please share your edited image, BUT NOT the XML. Let’s give people a chance to guess your method.
1Q8A3676.CR3 (18.8 MB)
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Here is my edit to start things off! Remember you don’t need to share the xml/secret if you want people to guess!
Please crop or apply some compression!
Sorry, it is cropped, but the compression was off. I will remove and replace with a compressed version asap.
(I have done it, please let me know if that is good now.)
I think using masks is “cheating”
and not true to whats physically happening to the film as i understand it since there is no hard cut off
I think whatever the situation calls for justifies the method, but I do prefer a more automatic system!
i do to!
in general I want to create a edit style that “just works” for all pictures without fiddling. Like analog film dose.
Tweaking with localized edits are for me a second step.
But this is just like my opinion man 
Of cause everyone is free to do what ever they want and how ever they like it.
Your Edit looks awesome. so the result speaks for you.
Maybe this is just my excuses to not do more or a better job at editing.
but I do some how like limiting myself in strange ways some times.
Setting soft limits can be freeing. It helps me not overthink editing
I confess I don’t share the nostalgic love for film, but here is my go. The vignetting of lens was rarely corrected in the photographic print world so I have kept that there as part of the joy of film.
I find that I usually don’t fix lens distortions or vignette in my photos but every once in a while, it will all of a sudden be super annoying for certain photos 
By default I don’t correct lens issues unless it is causing a problem. I am certainly not a person who has lens correction as part of my initial style.
If I want a film like look, I’d shoot film. I never understood why people are buying expensive equipment just to simulate outdated or cheaper equipment.
So no film simulation, even though I treated halation on my way.
Very gritty, like a true crime show or something 
I think for me, I do it for the pursuit of hybridization, “digital speed and flexibility + film colors and light response”. I like the way film treats the extreames of light, and the subtle way’s that colors get shifted by the nature of the medium. But I also like insane autofocus and editing raw files my way. I view it like getting to create my own film stocks.
Love your submission by the way!
I really like you edit anyways! I like that it almost has a two-tone look with the accentuated blues and oranges.
Absolutely Wild!
Spicy take! 
While the film workflow might be outdated, the look certainly isn’t. Preferably we can have to look without the hassle. During my years on this forum I’ve never witnessed colors looking better than some displayed in samples in @arctic’s Spectral film simulations from scratch thread. I guess a century of tweaking colors — not necessarily to be faithful, but to be pleasing — did something.
Oh wait, was that a spicy take too?
I can really recommend a visit to the Filmbox website to witness some awesome looking film emulations.
Looking forward to hear about what you’ve been up to.
