Just in case you don’t know how to do that, I would do the following:
1 - Uncheck Clip out-of-gamut colors box
2 - Check Highlight reconstruction box
3 - Move the Highlight compression slider to your taste.
I’m a Darktable user, but when it comes to highlights recovery, I get better results with Rawtherapee: after recovering in RT, I just export a 32-bit REC 2020 tif, then I do all the rest on DT.
You’ve got some pretty nasty artifacts on that region, but the overall edit that you did is pretty close to what the scene was, in terms of lighting and colors.
My edit was purposely dark to represent my vision of that scene: the watermelon and specially the light reflection beneath pop up in front of me.
@DxO-user also open my pp3 (below), go to the Advanced Tab and look for the Wavelets section.
There you have much more control on noise reduction.
My settings in there are just an example of a very quick tweak to reduce noise, but FAR from good, just a starting point. I couldn’t reduce almost any luminance noise, but, at least, some chrominance noise has gone. CRW_4166.DNG.pp3 (11.1 KB)
Yes , I’m editing the RAW file - But I have to use local adjustment to get control over the blown out highlights in the melon.
As a newbie to RT , I have to use to this kind of adjustment.
If not using RAW , I have to save as a tiff and do the rest in Affinity ( have never used Affinity in this forum)
@gadolf
My first take with PhotoFlow.
I have been testing some experimental tone mapping code on your image, and this is the best I could achieve so far… I will add the photoflow .pfi file once the new code is committed on github.
I have made 3 control spots ( appears as an elipse )
Inside each elipse there is a small round circle. Hit this small circle and you can move the control spots up/down - right/left to your likings.
In this case I used thwe control spots to adjust the exposure …
Best result I managed was rawpeeparis’ sacrificing natural looking (contrast) highlights to a Log munch scream puddle in exchange. Where is? I could swear I’ve been there.
I also didn’t like the resulting geometric shape after highlights recovery, so I choose to find a half term and reduced a little the recovery effects. (now looking at my edit I realize I should have reduced it more, the shape is still there)
As for the location, well, it’s the Glória neighbourhood, a small and very crazy and exotic place in RIo (but you have to live here to fully realize how strange it is, it’s not so evident at first sight). On Sundays, cars and buses give place to this market. So this is Feira da Glória (Glória’s market).
and it fits perfectly!
