Highlight recovery teaser

[KristijanZic]

@Iain could you try recovering highlights on this photo:

3.4 Scene-referred workflow bad bokeh highlights reconstruction

Been having trouble with Darktable 3.4 and the new scene-referred workflow with the “modern” chromatic adaptations and reconstructing bokeh in the backgrounds of my images. Here’s an example raw file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l5UZpQdzznWFZQxAAmDorRpNjPP4zM-k/view?usp=sharing (hereby CC BY-NC licensed) When I open this in dt the bokeh in the background has all sorts of weird artifacts [Screen Shot 2020-12-30 at 1.37.24 AM] For reference, here is how Lightroom exports it with Vivid Pr…

and this photo:

A study in blue

Here is my take with darktable master (color calibration to compress gamut, filmic with highlight reconstruction that blooms) i tried to preserve as much as possible the blue mood and to get smooth transition between shades of blue [RPN_Kick-In_20180830_3392] Another attempt, using the “colorfulness” tab of color calibration with a negative value on blue instead of gamut compression [RPN_Kick-In_20180830_3392_03]