I’ve never really messed around with the tonemappers in Darktable before, but my first edits of this photo resulted in a much pinker sunrise than I had seen when taking the shot. Never really swapped off Filmic before, but gave Sigmoid a shot since I’ve seen words like “sunset tonemapper” used with before. Sigmoid fixed some of the issues I had in the photo, but made other portions less appealing when doing a 1:1 swap. Would definitely be curious to see how others play around with the tonemappers, and when to “apply” those tools when starting an edit.
DSC06909.ARW.xmp (23.6 KB)
(just turning off Filmic and turning on Sigmoid makes the sunburst “right” to me, but the sky washed out, and not the happiest with my recovery efforts. Personally like the more dramatic sand that came along for the ride, but will acknowledge it may be a little much for some)
First stop was comparing highlight reconstruction modes, because they can over-pink things.
I then tried some variations with sigmoid - preserve hue first; then specifically red attenuation.
This one is the “neutralize colours” auto optimizer in the color balance module. It does reduce the pinks to non-existence, probably much more than you wanted! It looks much better - and less de-pinked - full-size on my callibrated monitor than in small jpeg here. I may yet have another go in a compromise between this and a too pink rendition.
You can also go to v5 of filmic with no color preservation and then do your own gamut management with the color tools…the pink can happen in v6 and v7 of filmic as there is code in there to control for hue shifts…you might also get it sorted in v7 with the highlight saturation slider but that doesn’t always work …
Throw the old color reconstruction module at this edit of yours just for fun…if you tweak that you can often dumb down and blend in that blown out area in a pleasing way…
Here is my attempt using Filmic V5 with no chrominance preservation which is the method I would use for a sunset/rise with filmic. DSC06909.ARW.xmp (11.5 KB)
