[Play Raw] Kensington Market, Toronto - High Contrast Evening

stefan.chirila · December 31, 2018, 5:05pm

Hey guys, here’s another [Play Raw]. Once again there’s a hidden agenda on my part, evil laugh, which is that I would like a good starting point in nicely editing evening/night shots. I’d like to have your takes on it

RAW FILE (LG V20 phone - not well supported in RawTherapee, sadly)
1230181640.dng (22.1 MB) - licensed as

(below) - And here’s a sample of what I did in Lightroom for Android

Another RAW I’d like to make available from the same shoot is this:
1230181401a.dng (22.1 MB) - licensed as - Preview below.
1230181401a.jpg.out.pp3 (11.6 KB)

I think I caused a bunch of confusion among you good people, with my confused descriptions and such. What I guess I meant to say from the start is that I’m trying to figure out the ins and outs of what it is that makes dark edits look good; from creamy orange highlights to subtle blue shadows. I think I’m a few steps closer in the sample below, and I really appreciate all the collaboration I get from you all!

Also here’s a few other ones I did in RawTherapee last night, but I feel there’s something missing about them…

Update:
I’d hope for something like this but don’t think that’s necessarily possible.

paperdigits · December 31, 2018, 5:07pm

Please attach the raw file and give it a license! A jpeg preview would be nice too!

EDIT: Please explicitly license your files, @stefan.chirila

Thomas_Do · December 31, 2018, 5:51pm

My version

1230181640.dng.xmp (6,1 KB)

shreedhar · December 31, 2018, 6:06pm

Since you processed the image on the phone, I too tried Snapseed on it. Here is the result.

DxO-user · December 31, 2018, 6:31pm

RT 5.5

Joan_Rake1 · December 31, 2018, 6:56pm

Without faux-QAM:

With faux-QAM:

msd · December 31, 2018, 7:06pm

Two edits here, both using darktable.

McCap · December 31, 2018, 9:18pm

I don’t get where you want to go with the images…you posted one evening shot and a couple of daytime shots and then said you wanted those to be like the rainy night time image at the end??

McCap · December 31, 2018, 9:44pm

Here’s a version.
In RT:

Dynamic range compression
Exposure
RGB curves
Perspective correction

In Gimp:

contrast curves for lights and shadows separately
saturated the sky, the blue less
added a color toning to the darker parts:
– shadows = cyan/blue,
– midtones = magenta

shreedhar · January 1, 2019, 7:17am

Here is a serious version using RT 5.5. I wanted to see how much detail can one bring out from the dark areas in the top right corner. Once again, it is amazing how much this raw file from a tiny sensor can be pushed without artifacts.
1230181640-1.jpg.out.pp3 (12.1 KB)

ADDED
Here is a shot from a 70’s film in which the three dudes are about to abduct the lady trying to enter the Mafia owned shop

1230181640.jpg.out.pp3 (11.8 KB)

age · January 1, 2019, 3:53pm

1230181640.dng.pp3 (12.9 KB)

ggc · January 1, 2019, 5:21pm

Here is my tryout.

@stefan.chirila what are the problems with that phone and Raw Therapee?

Btw, seems to me the dng is already heavily processed by the phone itself.

1230181640.jpg.out.pp3 (12.4 KB)

HIRAM · January 1, 2019, 11:41pm

1230181640.dng.pp3 (11.4 KB)
RawTherapee 5.5-dev

stefan.chirila · January 2, 2019, 12:14am

I was just cringing at the extreme distortion of the wide angle lens raw files. But I suppose it’s meant to be considerably cropped anyway.

kevin_tee · January 2, 2019, 1:08am

Maybe you want something like this PIXLS.US - A Masashi Wakui look with GIMP

stefan.chirila · January 2, 2019, 1:26am

thanks

HIRAM · January 2, 2019, 10:17am

If lensfun had calibration data for your mobile you would be

\LARGE😿\ ➡️😺

The only LG mobile in Lensfun now is the G4

github.com

lensfun/lensfun/blob/883cb3512a8c3fb2a349ce9dd592d1f523241612/data/db/misc.xml#L349-L359


      
          <maker>LG</maker>
          <model>LG G4 &amp; compatibles</model>
          <model lang="en">fixed lens</model>
          <model lang="de">festes Objektiv</model>
          <mount>lgH815</mount>
          <cropfactor>6.34</cropfactor>
          <aspect-ratio>16:9</aspect-ratio>
          <calibration>
              <distortion model="poly3" focal="4.42" k1="0.00306"/>
              <tca model="poly3" focal="4.42" vr="1.0000246" vb="1.0000556"/>
          </calibration>

iarga · January 2, 2019, 8:58pm

A loose try to match the wished style…

kakashy · January 26, 2019, 9:55pm

My contribution with darktable 2.601230181401a.dng.xmp (6,6 Ko)

afre · February 3, 2019, 12:47am

The streetcar photo is more appealing to me, so I will start there. This is my workflow:

1. PhotoFlow → HL mode (blend) → AMaZE → linear Rec2020 (no clipping) → reduce oog (curve 0→1) → linear sRGB 32f

2. gmic → filter pixels → crop (1.5:1) → sharpen (high freq contrast) → HLG (curve) → blend (Retinex) → adjust brightness, contrast (curves) → recover sky → adjust brightness, contrast (curves) → local contrast, sharpen (guided) → reduce chroma (curve) → sharpen (LoG) → resize (1800)

3. darktable → perspective correction (auto, rotation) → JPG

Zoom 100% and enjoy!