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[s7habo (Boris Hajdukovic)]

@europlatus

Hence, I juggle between the sliders to set my black and white points and to get the look I want.

You’ve got it exactly right! Look bite the videos that I have sent.

@europlatus

So, to be more specific in line with the rules of this thread, what is the expected way to set your black and white points if you’re trying to maximize dynamic range (e.g. max black and white without clipping)? Is it even best done in filmic?

Let’s try it this way. I will not be able to explain this mathematically, but as I understand it as a layman.

This is the initial situation without filmic:

Shematically, I only transfer a part of the dynamic range of my camera to the sRGB color space:

Now, I have also set filmic so that there is no compression. The look of the photo does not change almost at all:

If I now increase the exposure by one EV, the shadows are getting lighter and I get the warning that I have left the sRGB gamut in highlights:

So, we have this situation now:

Now with white relative exposure I bring the highlights back into the gamut. (Note that the shadows are affected because of the compression):

Now we have this situation:

Now I want to expand this darker compressed area a bit with black relative exposure until I have enough contrast in this area:

This is how it looks now: