Here is my take. Required lots of tuning and patience. Doing this from a sad screen so I don’t know how good or bad it looks. In my estimation, it is average looking compared to the other attempts. However, I hope it recovered enough of the sky and greenery to satisfy @isagalaev.
PhotoFlow
a) Linear Rec.2020 with negative clipping.
gmic
a) Curve to remove linearity.
b) Subdue details (guided smoothing) in prep for #3.
gmic cont.
a) Expose shadows (luminosity mask).
b) Curve to increase contrast + brighten shadows, stretch chroma, recover details (guided sharpening).
c) Prep for sharing (contrast, resize, fp to jpg).
Enjoy!
[Edit: uploaded wrong version. This one is slightly sharper.]
Here is my first take with PhotoFlow. @isagalaev - thanks for sharing this image, it’s an excellent example for testing the various shadow adjustment methods!
My edit is mostly based on exposure compensation + ad-hoc masks, plus some fine tuning with RGB curves:
And the corresponding PFI file: DSCF3284.pfi (84.5 KB)
I have downloaded your .PP3 file and tried to apply it to the RAF file of this playraw, to see how you achieved your excellent result in practice. However, after opening the RAF file in RT and applying your PP3 file with the “Load a profile from file”, this is how the processed image looks like:
Also, if the image still doesn’t match, you might want to checkout a commit from dev from the day I posted that image, as Fattal’s behavior changed over time and I’m not sure whether its behavior from the day I posted hadn’t changed till today. Backwards compatibility is absolutely not supported for development builds, but we do try to support it for stable releases.
Specifically for darktable. Mask features in darktable is what I would love to use and what I am missing in LR. I was thinking about GIMP when I saw tutorials with masks in dt so I decided to give it a try.
There’s still a lot I don’t like about this particular end result, but thanks to you all I now have all the power to do with pixels whatever I want! (Deciding what that is is a whole another story )