Hi @gadolf ,
very nice shot!
In my opinion, this is a scene where filmic and color balance modules alone are not enough to emphasize the motifs. Interesting for me are the two salesmen, who are separated from each other by the column. The column itself makes a beautiful separation between these two worlds.
So, the task during the editing for me was not only to correct the dynamic range and colors, but how I can draw the viewer’s attention to this motif. Accordingly I have tried to darken the picture as a whole and to brighten up the two people a little bit:
CRW_4221.DNG.xmp (16,1 KB)
I also used color grading for this purpose. A kind of teal and orange makes the darker areas cooler and brighter warmer and thus the skin colors are even more accentuated.
At this point I think that it would be very practical to have a possibility to have selective adjustments at local areas of the image with the help of control points, similar to Viveza from NiK Collection or Selective Adjust from Snapseed.
@anon41087856 or @David_Tschumperle : Would it be possible to have something like this in darktable or G’MIC?
As far as desaturation is concerned, darktable has a very good color zones module with which you can easily desaturate individual color areas.