Problematic sunset light

I’m generally not a fan of overly pushed colors, but for some images it can sometimes be required to get a ‘natural’ result. As I said, I took these photos just as a reaction to the insane colors I saw out my window. This last edit of yours feels to me very much like my memory of the moment…

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My version…

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Thank you all for the great edits and inputs, truly awesome :+1:

I think this will be my final edit of this one, at least for today.

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ART

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Filmulator handles it easily, retaining the color in the warm sky and also leaving the clouds gray.

  • Highlight Recovery 2
  • Exposure Comp -1.5
  • Shadow Rolloff Point 0.0147
  • Drama 56
  • White Clipping Point 0.587
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Very nice edit :slight_smile: Filmulator has surprised med everytime I’ve looked at it. I havent tried it in a long time now though, maybe I should install it again.

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This is my version:


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This is my attempt:
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DT 3.8

“quick and dirty” with my standard set of tools in dt 3.8.1

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As I mentioned in other threads, I’m a sunsetlover and have hundreds of sunsets. Several times I complained about colorshifting, e.g. orange → magenta. This is caused by “preserve chrominance” in filmic. Until today, I don’t understand this, just as desaturating blacks.
Actually, Aurelian has made a YT-Video about this.
I have to watch this Video serveral times - I’ not the most clever human in the world :wink:
In the video he repairs colorshifting remaining “preserve chrominance”.

Many thanks for that.

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my try with RT and Gimp

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Vos photos sont magnifiques, il y a une ambiance particulière qui nous transporte

I had to use Google translate for that one, thank you Google, brilliant service.

But thank you @Domii , I’m humbled :blush::pray:

One year later …

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That’s actually really nice, well done :+1::grinning:

Thanks for posting.

DT 4.0.0


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Washed out the sky to maybe not enough for what I was looking for… thanks for sharing the photo…

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One without filmic and sigmoid, using tone EQ instead.


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Really nice. You actually managed to keep the intensity in the sky and still keep the clouds fairly neutral, i have dig these up again and take a peek at your xmp. Well done