I’ve been using Darktable for two weeks now (with help from the manual, this forum and videos). An older photo from my only trip to Namibia always gave me trouble in LR. The RAW file looks gray, but the atmosphere was vibrant. I tried it again in DT, and I like the result better than in LR, where I saw artifacts around the tree. I’m still a bit unsure about the color balance. But so far, I’m very happy with DT. The image is ISO 5000 and I denoised it with nind_denoise. It’s not strictly necessary, only visible when you zoom in, but it works quite well, although nind doesn’t perform as well on elephant skin as it does on bird feathers The latter is more important to me, though, since I shoot more birds than elephants…
Welcome to dt. It’s great that you are already using nind-denoise!
If you want to see how others handle colors, you could add “Play Raw” to the category, attach a copy of your raw file, your sidecar, and include a license such as:
My take. I tried to bring out some of the sunset colors in the darker sections of the scene, without pushing it very far. I did try to take out some of the yellow in the sky using color look up table.
I see what you meant about noise. I didn’t work too much on that. Nice image!
The latter is more important to me, though, since I shoot more birds than elephants…
