I was wondering how much better you guys can recover data from the shadows compared to my approach (while maintaining a decent overall look)!
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VERY FUNNY. I can see I know nothing of Hell xD (when it’s in the form of high contrast and underexposure and good taste, dealt with in RawTherapee).
So, I tried and I gave up, rather dissatisfied:
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This one is definitely a candidate for blowing out the sky. Otherwise the tree is always silhouetted. The image falls apart in the shadows because of the noise, and I didn’t really spend much time trying to clean that up. But this is what I got with AgX in the dev build of Darktable.
Darktable 5.1.0:
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But your resolution is rather good, don’t you think?
I know fuji cameras have a lot of tolerance for underexposure but this one is pushing even a fuji past its limits, but here goes with DT5.1.
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Solely looking at noise reduction, etc., yes, it’s not that bad. But from a colour management and overall interpretation viewpoint, I don’t know what to do with this image, and to be honest, I like the hues you’ve achieved in the sky.
And the saturation in your edit also suits the subject.
I hope someone used to this exercise will chime in — I tend to think there’s an approach better than others, for this kind of image, just from a signal processing perspective.
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I agree. I wish there was a mixture of the “for the sky” edit and the “for the tree” edit.
One more item: I notice it time and time again that the saturation is completely gone when having an extremely high dynamic range image. I understand that there is a - let´s call it proximity - effect that if you come to pure black and pure white there can´t be any color information. However, I thought this was a more of digital problem (aka not enough bit depth to give a suitable range of colors) mainly associated with jpeg. But since the raw files also do not contain a hole lot of color information at the borders I start to think about how such situations could be handled more suitably. I know there is HDR mode and that would probably solve this but if I just wanted more color not more dynamic range - is there a way to get that with a single shot?
I much prefer the silhouetted trees and the natural-looking sky, so the original one and the one from @Thomas_Do look the best to me.
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Gorgeous. I will check how you did it.
I have no idea what you are doing. Mainly the tone curve LAB settings and your color calibration is very confusing - how did you come up with this approach?
This is a very basic edit, nothing new compared to the others.
agx, otherwise just denoise (profiled), diffuse or sharpen (2 instances, 2 presets), local contrast.
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The LAB tone curve is mostly me experimenting to see how it affects color saturation, particularly in the Blue and Magenta spectrum, which I often adjust. In normally exposed images, this method can lead to oversaturation, so I usually reduce it using other modules like Color Balance RGB. I recommend turning it off to see how it impacts this specific image.
As for the color calibration, I use it to emphasize certain colors. By adjusting the individual R, G, and B input sliders along with their colorfulness, I shift the overall white balance toward a more neutral look. Of course other module such as Color RGB module or others shall work fine for this purpose too, but the way I see it the Color Calibration module can be used for more “Global” color tone trimming.
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Another variant: tone equalizer to tone down the highlights; one more local contrast to bring out more highlight details.
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(You should really clean that sensor, @DanielLikesDT :-))
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