I’m really excited playing with the improvements of darktable 3.2.1 as well as trying to switch to a scene-referred workflow using filmic v4. (I’m still in the process of wrapping my head around this.)
Here is a photo of a hill that I took around sunset (the sun was setting behind me).
When I was out there (IRL), the hill had some nice red-ish glow, but I was unable to recover it in darktable. (I still have a lot to learn and photography only has recently become a hobby for me).
I hope that maybe some of you will have a shot at getting more out of this raw, so that I can learn from it.
The majority of the colour editing I did came from the color balance module with a little bit from the color zones module to lighten up the red on the hill. I’m a big fan of using the color balance module to selectively introduce colours to the shadows/midtones/highlights. It takes a bit of practice but I’ve been very happy with the results.
Many of the module-combinations are still well outside my comfort-level and probably I won’t start using them for a while. I definitely have to read up about some modules in the manual and start using them in my own edits. I’ll probably come back to your history stacks at a later time.
Once again thank you all!!! Thank you, bedankt, merci und danke!
Yes, got a bit carried away and went up some blind alleys. I wanted to make the glow on the hill more orange without changing anything else. Used Color Zones for the first time though I don’t know if that’s the best or even a good way to do it.
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