DT 3.2.1
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Nice girl. Happy belated birthday!
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Already posted a darktable version, but I’ve been trying out RawTherapee (5.8) and came up with these:
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In my opinion it is well exposed, just a bit noisy and the background is brighter than the girl.
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A D750 shouldn’t be showing so much noise at iso1600, right?
@zhopudey : The base RAW file isn’t all that bad to be honest. You can, however, create noise during the edit.
If you want a sort of reference: I made a whole bunch of test shots a while back, not for ISO comparison, but I did cover a wide ISO range. Here’s the 1600 ISO RAW version from that set: D75_0633.nef (28.9 MB)
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The area on the wall behind her left shoulder really bothered me. I had no success getting rid of it, so I gave up trying. In B&W it’s not so objectionable, IMO.
EDIT: I made a few changes. This is yet another time in my life where I look at something I did and said to myself, “Boy, what was I thinking?”
@zhopudey Thanks for sharing. Your daughter has a confident smile. Her expression seems to show she is proud of you, and I am sure you are of her as well.
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I’m recently interested in ‘colorimetric’ color, that is, colors as rendered through a camera matrix or LUT that was created from either a target or SSFs, no ‘looks’ or other color processing. In that regard, here’s a rendition made with rawproc, camera blackpoint, camera whitebalance, ahd demosaic (amaze is doing something goofy of late, need to troubleshoot that…) and just a bit contrasty filmic curve, using the z6 LUT camera profile (all the recent Nikons are similar, and I can’t find the D750 profile I made a few weeks ago… 
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In the full-resolution image I don’t see noise worth addressing; indeed, even at ISO 1600 you’ve got a shutter speed and aperture such to give the sensor decent exposure, and it’s a D750 after all. With respect to the color, only the red shirt changed substantially when I changed from the matrix to the LUT profile, skin tones remained the same. Mine are middle-of-the-road compared to most others; your side-by-side comparison between your edit and OOC pretty well defines the range. Whitebalance probably has a lot to do with the cooler renditions, although I wonder how the OOC camera gave such a blue tint when the camera-supplied numbers didn’t reflect that.
Nice color exercise!
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No, same here
@Underexposed Not sure what happened. When I uploaded the 2nd edit they were visible. I just redid it and all seems to be OK now.
To be honest I think I prefer the full-frame shot (or close to), but thought I’d go for a crop anyway. Always tricky to try and get right.
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@ggbutcher
Are your profiles available somewhere? I would like to try
Playing with darktable 3.2.1
The XMP is rather messy, I poked quite a few modules without aim.
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