Thanks @jorismak for the nice photo!
I wasn’t sure what I’d find here - I don’t take many people photos so I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect.
I first used sigmoid, and got a result I was happy with pretty quickly. I should mention at this point that whenever I use sigmoid it’s almost always in the ‘per channel’ mode. The other (rgb ratio) seems very similar to filmic, but with less control, so I haven’t done much with it.
I more or less just increased the contrast in sigmoid, and fiddled with exposure and tone eq until I liked the result. Using sigmoid (in the way I do) I often don’t need to add any saturation in color bal rgb, in fact sometimes I back it off a little.
Then I went back to original file and started again with filmic, and was a little surprised to find it more difficult to get a result I was happy with… v6 max rgb left the lady’s face very flat, although I could have got away with no tone eq at all… I ended up using tone eq with the gf medium preset (same as in the sigmoid image), filmic v6 max rgb with a bit of fiddling in the look tab, color bal rgb for saturation, and a bit of local contrast only on the highlights to restore… um… depth? texture? to the highlights.
And I’m happy with this result too! But I found it harder to get there.
P5020458-filmic.ORF.xmp (11.4 KB)
P5020458-sigmoid.ORF.xmp (11.0 KB)