On 1 May, we paid a visit to Nordkirchen Castle in North Rhine-Westphalia. The photo was taken in the park. I had to adjust the white balance quite a lot until it looked reasonably good. I’m looking forward to your edits …
Darktable 5.0.1
2505_Nordkirchen-0016.ORF (18,5 MB)
2505_Nordkirchen-0016.ORF.xmp (62,8 KB)
2505_Nordkirchen-0016.ORF.xmp (25.1 KB)
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I left WB as it is, but desaturated the statue instead
RT 5.12 rc1
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I just thought I would play with the new attenuation reversal sliders…I really don’t have a targeted strategy yet as the module is evolving at a rapid pace but wow just two slider adjustments and I got quite a different and interesting result…
I made a deliberate choice to use daylight white balance to bring out the natural green light provided by the tree onto the dog. I can also understand wanting to counter balance this green as you have chosen.
2505_Nordkirchen-0016.ORF.xmp (13.8 KB)
It is a very difficult problem, from memory the parts of the image in the shadow looked greenish. During development, however, I didn’t like the greenish tone at all, so I finally used the RGB primaries module and the colour equalizer to soften the green tones.
The white balance didn’t work the way I wanted it to, probably because there was really a lot of green in the shadows.
2505_Nordkirchen-0016.ORF.xmp (14.9 KB)
Tricky WB on this one, finally took it from the marble on the right border.
My attempt. I couldn’t avoid the artifacts, but let it be for art’s sake 
. The statue must be marble, so I have focused on it to have a brownish tinge
Nordkirchen-0016.ORF.xmp (13.0 KB)
The artifact lines make it look like a drawing with fine black marker strokes
2505_Nordkirchen-0016.ORF.xmp (25,7 KB)
Hi,
Consider the edit a direction not a destination…
Good play, enjoyed that.
