Sell these tomatoes

Can you “sell” these tomatoes better than me?

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The RAW:
2022-08-07t15-40-50_1144.cr2 (22.5 MB)

Embedded JPEG preview:

My attempt:
2022-08-07t15-40-50_1144.cr2.xmp (12.6 KB)

I have managed to get what I consider fairly accurate colours, but would like the red of the tomatoes to be more like the camera jpeg, without affecting everything else. I also can’t quite figure out how to best deal with the magenta highlight on them (which is also in the camera jpeg).

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With Filmulator:

I don’t think the magenta highlights are a problem, that’s just mixing the blue sky reflection with the red tomato.

Settings:

  • Exposure comp +5/6
  • Drama 83.76
  • White Clipping Point 0.719
  • Shadow Brightness 172.5
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Use a blend mode…just on my phone.so I can’t try it but. one of my favourites for this sort of kick is subtract. Add a tone curve module …no curve edit just blend it in subtract and drop to about 10 percent opacity…you can also try multiply…
can try this with a no-op exposure too and try a similar thing or even reverse blend mode…in each case just play with opacity…you can mask but I rarely bother other than maybe a gradient for a sky or something

Mmmmm… tomatoes! Here’s my go. I used a second instance of color balance rgb with parametric and drawn masks to at least partially shift the pink bits towards red. I agree though that these were just due the lighting - not the infamous magenta highlights that have been discussed recently. :grinning:
I also used a bit of tinkering with the channel mixer in a second instance of color calibration.


2022-08-07t15-40-50_1144.cr2.xmp (20.1 KB)


2022-08-07t15-40-50_1144.jpg.out.pp3 (11.6 KB)

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Here’s my go. GIMP

Sell these tomatoes_2022-08-07t15-40-50_1144.cr2.xmp (10.7 KB)

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Difficult :slight_smile: .


2022-08-07t15-40-50_1144.cr2.xmp (18.9 KB)


2022-08-07t15-40-50_1144.cr2.xmp (11.6 KB)


2022-08-07t15-40-50_1144.pfi (65.8 KB)

Thanks for posting this image. I love tomatoes!

dt 4.0
2022-08-07t15-40-50_1144_06.cr2.xmp (16.8 KB)

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Hello everyone,

A good picture to test my new workflow which includes a profile made with a chart for colour correction.
You will find below the basic style which includes the complete workflow as well as 2 small styles which apply to the first one for filmic adjustments and adaptations (MaxRGB, No).

For this version, I used the “default” style, then the MaxRGB Filmic style and just increased the exposure to 1.75 (DT4.0)

2022-08-07t15-40-50_1144.cr2.xmp (12.9 KB)
Défaut.dtstyle (6.1 KB)
Filmique Luminance.dtstyle (996 Bytes)
Filmique MaxRVB.dtstyle (1.4 KB)
Filmique Préserver Chrominance Non.dtstyle (1014 Bytes)

Thanks deepl
Christian

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