Once again the same spektrafilm settings more or less (spare the exposure), -20% contrast in color balance rgb, then a couple of instances of the new (upcoming soon?) contrast & texture module.
Thanks for all the interesting takes on this river setting which while varied all choose to tackle contrast.
Apologies if my introduction was misleading.
I didn’t intend to disallow anyone from lightening the boats if they wished to or to insist on them remaining lit exactly as in nature.
I am new to this and my understanding is that play raw should allow anyone to do whatever they want.
I have had another go, no doubt influenced by what I have seen in this thread and it is a lot closer to the colours I saw than my first edit and yes, the river really is that brown!
The clouds are pretty close to neutral gray and were quite fluffy so I haven’t loaded them with further contrast. It was a breezy, cloudy summer day, not stormy at all.
The only colour shifting is a bit of a shift in the yellowy greens in a band in the middle of the frame.
Other than that there is a bit of dodging and burning including lifting the boats a touch and dodging the brighter parts of the water.
Honestly, I read the title and your text and looked at your jpeg and my brain just read it as ‘remove cloud shade’ oops.
My first seems too dark anyway so I’ve brightened that, then I reversed my tone equaliser curve to amplify the shade. Same xmp for both, just history item 45 for the brighter version.
Much nicer than my pics of Vauxhall bridge from a few weeks ago btw. DSC00636_01.ARW.xmp (75.1 KB)
Trying darktable feeding into HDR-finisher (export from dt to EXR linear rec2020). AVIF with linear gain map hopefully displays ok on SDR screens and shows HDR where its supported.
This looks pretty great on my phone with a hdr display. The clouds are a bit distractingly dramatic and maybe leave the image a little unbalanced but the range of luminosity is really impressive.
Edit: I downloaded the big version to look on my phone. Looks really 3D somehow, too.
“the problem” - he was talking about the sunny background while the botes were shaded by clouds.
I agree, do whatever you want, but the OP strongly implied dealing with the varied lighting situation. I chose to embrace it and try to emphasize the shadow, while others wanted to have it all brightly lit.
Think your solution perfectly fits this. As we do not have a cue - other than this picture and a couple of words - about what the photographer finds ‘interesting’.
