Not sure if I get your meaning about the darkness and night. If I look at the metadata I see that this was shot at 18:40 on August 21st which is late afternoon/early evening.
EDIT: Interesting how your eyes start to compensate while you edit; Did not see the slight haloing around the mountains (left side). Even now if I look at it for a few seconds it looks to disappear…
very nice shot! here’s my version with vkdt. logarithmic shaper + a bit of contrast, heckflosse’s deconvolution/sharpen, and used a custom noise profile created from only this image and applied wavelet denoising based on that:
I am currently lost in the dt 3.4 methodology with this image. I would appreciate a tip or two.
My understanding is to not use White Balance, but Color Calibration. When I turn off WB, the image goes to a very green cast. Nothing I try in CC makes it correct.
Also, my understanding of CC is to use D65, but the only thing like that that is available is D50.
What am I doind wrong? In my processing settings, I have selected Scene Referred and Modern.
hmm yeah we do this slightly stupid thing in darktable that we divide out the D65 white balance of the adobe dng matrix when loading it. this way you need to multiply the camera wb coeffs and then the rest of the matrix. this makes it easy to apply wb if you want to do the simple CAT with multipliers in camera rgb. in fact the vkdt image i posted above just uses the dng matrix, without normalising the rows and without any white balance coeffs applied. does not usually turn green this way.
My take on this gorgeous scenery, I try to enhance the contrast between the dark sky and the softly lighten peaks. I hope I did not over did it ! I processed the image using darktable and had to use (among other things) mask with 2 instances of the exposure module to process the sky with seperately. I find this a little bit complex to achieve such a simple result but did not find a faster way to do it.
Loved using the new color calibration module even though I just feel like a monkey randomly pushing buttons to see what happen … I have to take time to read @anon41087856 full explanation about this, it feels so powerful !