This is an interesting test case as I was using strong colored gels on strobes when I was working with dance and theater students a number of years ago. There’s no “natural” look to aim for here as it’s supposed to look like a disco floor to some degree.
The light spilled onto my poorly maintained black back drop so finding the edge where you can hide that and still preserve some detail is tricky. Also, that blue/purple gel gives you a similar effect to the infamous blue LED to contend with. I had a red gel to the left and it’s supposed to look very red, not just warm or yellow.
This is the darktable 3.8 result:
_LGH0064.NEF.xmp (21.1 KB)
I think this is where the filmic approach really shines as I was able to preserve more detail in the hair than I was with the display referred method. Also, I tried with RawTherapee and this is the result there:
_LGH0064.jpg.out.pp3 (11.3 KB)
This could be down to the fact that I use darktable more often and have more experience with its tooling, someone who’s primarily a RawTherapee user may get better results than I did there. I was just using RT 5.8.
Anyway, have at it!
_LGH0064.NEF (15.9 MB)
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