Maybe a little to yellow/grenish. But I did a very fast edit.
Edit: This might be somewhat better:
2022-06-26–12.07.26.CR3.xmp (9.5 KB)
Maybe a little to yellow/grenish. But I did a very fast edit.
Edit: This might be somewhat better:
2022-06-26–12.07.26.CR3.xmp (9.5 KB)
Nice challenge!
I did not crop the vignetted upper left corner to leave the church hall intact and not to cut the foot of the kneeling gentleman
you may use colorbalancergb to add vibrance, contrast and linear color grading or perceptual saturation
There are two aspects of this scene that, in my opinion, make the photo pale:
The illumination is very diffuse and even. Diffuse light is actually very good for portraits because you don’t have harsh shadows, but if it’s too even (without soft shadows), it lacks the necessary depth.
The color of the light and the walls (with corresponding diffuse reflections) is very similar to the color of the skin, which also makes it difficult to separate people from the background.
The task here is to make this separation afterwards.
By white balancing I first got the color separation between people and background. Then I lightened the skin color a bit. Contrasts increased and with the help of channel mixer and color balance rgb tried to imitate the original color mood of the room.
2022-06-26–12.07.26_02.CR3.xmp (13,5 KB)
darktable 3.9.0~git1798.baa74228-1
I decided to try a different approach to give this photo more punch. RAW extracted using Filmulator (+1EV). In GIMP I used my saturation_h_m_l.py plug-in (as mentioned in the thread on vibrance) to boost the areas of medium saturation - particularly flesh-tones.
Working on a new warm-ish RT preset (I know, I know…) at the moment and I kind of like how that one came out. Thanks!
RT5.8 dev
You are far more analytical… I cheated… I took a guess the floor might be grey and include any color cast. WB on an average of the floor…the dog looked pretty good and the skin tones seemed okay so I went with it
In my job as an event photographer, I struggle with such lighting conditions very often:
With hundreds of such photos you slowly develop the view and the rutine in handling.
Nice scene and tricky to handle the colors.
Here’s my try in RT_dev:
2022-06-26–12.07.26.CR3-1.jpg.out.pp3 (14,8 KB)
Ya nothing beats experience…here I might try to cheat again on the desktops just to see where it lands or work to a pleasing skin tone…I often find just fixing or getting a good skin tone yields a nice overall wb for the whole image… but again I am a rank amateur…
Alternative version without shadows/highlights, this one is just white balance as shot, rgb per channel tone mapping, unsharp mask and LAB vibrance
“In my job as an event photographer, I struggle with such lighting conditions very often:”
From my professional photography experience I would suggest you can save a lot of grief by getting a photographic grey card or a color checker card and taking a photograph with that under the lighting conditions you are working under. Takes but a moment to do. Then this would let you workout the white balance correctly for the development of the whole shoot which you could save as a preset or style in DT.
2022-06-26–12.07.26.CR3.xmp (10.6 KB)
Here is my version using DT version 4.10 which is soon to be released
I do a lot of photo restoration and I find GIMP auto levels so much more pleasing than auto levels in DT.
How would that function be different if you are just pushing the histogram?? Just curious
@priort when I look at the histogram for levels in DT it stretches all the way from left to right, but in GIMP there is space on the left and right of the histogram. Auto levels in GIMP raises the contrast and does a color balance by stretching each channel across the histogram. Often this produces a very pleasing result. Sometimes the contrast is a little high so I tweak the output levels to control this.
Compared to GIMP, DT’s auto levels are not as helpful for me.
This is a color space thing…in DT your working in the working profile…you have exported in srgb…so then GIMP gets it as srgb and can boost it…
Do the same thing in DT…import your tiff…now you will see the working profile in DT is likely still Rec2020…change that to srgb to match GIMP now try auto levels…nice and bright like you see with GIMP…