Night yellow teint

Slhoka · October 6, 2025, 8:18pm

Hello there,

I’ve come to ask for help.
I’ve made some pictures at my brother weedings however it was at night and I got a yellow teint.

I discovered Darktable (I’m using the 5.2.1) a few weeks back and I tried to play around with some module but the best I’ve got was something too grayish with the module Color Calibration.

Maybe some of you can point me in the right direction to get something out of this picture.

night_shot_at_wedding.CR2 (24.6 MB)

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Best regards

Jiyone · October 6, 2025, 8:39pm

Doing the CCT eyedropper on the white shirt gives a quite good neutral image.

Tim · October 6, 2025, 9:25pm

night_shot_at_wedding.CR2.xmp (8.1 KB)

cedric · October 6, 2025, 10:46pm

In RawTherapee white balanced on the front teeth, so now a blue tint, duh:

night_shot_at_wedding.jpg.out.pp3 (14.9 KB)

So next on the white stars:

atmbl · October 6, 2025, 11:12pm

night_shot_at_wedding.CR2.xmp (7.7 KB)
Darktable 5.2.1

automatic workflow with sigmoid
adjust color calibration white balance with whole picture area detect
turn on lens correction
turn on contrast equalizer sharpen&denoise for the focus “correction”

priort · October 6, 2025, 11:45pm

I would get this from the shirt…

This from the whole image…

Flipping that selection to give the custom controls and dropping the chroma a little you can make it a bit less neutral and stop when you like the look… but the shirt was a pretty good thing to have in the image from what I can see in my first image…

Terry · October 7, 2025, 6:06am

I am presuming white balance was set to daylight in the camera. Auto would have been better. I have done a simple edit and did a color area sample in the CC module on the white shirt.
night_shot_at_wedding.CR2.xmp (10.6 KB)