Sunset in Corsica

Hello everyone,
some time ago “s7habo” recommended that if I get stuck with Darktable, I should contact me here.
I have a problem here that I just can’t get any further with. Maybe you could maybe help me a little. That would be great. I don’t get a clean, attractive picture from the file.
Thanks in advance.

P1150686_Pointe de la Parata.RW2 (22.4 MB)
P1150686_Pointe de la Parata_02.RW2.xmp (1005 Bytes)

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P1150686_Pointe de la Parata.RW2.xmp (47.2 KB)

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@Mc-Marcus Welcome to the forum! Thanks for sharing your photo!

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Thanks for sharing.
Photoflow, basic usage, but didn’t succeed in reducing noise.


P1150686_Pointe de la Parata.pfi (47.7 KB)

With an experimental Filmulator build that has non-local means noise reduction, plus RawTherapee’s impulse denoise (which I haven’t pulled into Filmulator yet).

Other Filmulator settings:

  • Profiled CA on
  • Profiled Distortion on
  • Exposure Comp -1/6
  • Film Area 63
  • Drama 65.4
  • White Clipping Point 0.73
  • Shadow Brightness 177
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P1150686_Pointe de la Parata.RW2.xmp (16.8 KB)

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I love Corsica so, so much. It’s ridiculously beautiful and that picture is a great example. :slight_smile:

I don’t work with Darktable though (yet?) so this is with RT5.8 dev.


P1150686_Pointe de la Parata-1.jpg.out.pp3 (19.7 KB)

My version of this very nice snapshot (Darktable 3.5):


P1150686_Pointe de la Parata.RW2.xmp (10.8 KB)

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sunset.in.corsica.pp3 (20.3 KB) RawTherapee 5.8 Development

Tricky one. Keeping the noise in check while trying to get detail back in the hill(s) is harder then it looks.

Thanks for sharing this one!

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P1150686_Pointe de la Parata.RW2.xmp (31.0 KB)

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Thank you for the play:

With RT, GIMP/G’MIC:

A very nice picture from a place with a lot of atmosphere!
Developed with Darktable 3.4.1.
Thanks for sharing :grinning:


P1150686_Pointe de la Parata.RW2.xmp (13.4 KB)

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DT 3.5
P1150686_Pointe de la Parata.RW2.xmp (12.2 KB)

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Wow, that noise is even worse than with my variant. Madness.

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Corsica is beautiful. A very breathtaking landscape. It’s just a shame that the Corsicans find it so difficult to speak English. Communication was sometimes incredibly difficult.

Yes exactly. I totally despair of that with this photo. Great, thank you very much for the effort.

That’s actually how I imagine it. But I personally lack the know-how how to best get to this goal, with tolerable noise. Many Thanks.

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Yeah… I never managed to achieve significant results with PhF NR module.
If it were just luminance noise, I’d be satisfied, I kinda liked the grainy shadows in this rendering.
EDIT: Your comment about noise made me try another attempt, unsuccessful though. But I gladly found out that module tonemappingv3 behaves better and seems to be more flexible than the later one. I could render a more colourful sky, and less pissy-yellow as Aurélien uses to mention it. So here it goes.


P1150686_Pointe de la Parata.pfi (44.0 KB)

this is a vkdt render. hard to strike a good balance in this one… tried to bring out the foreground without loosing the hazy look. could probably use some more contrast/sharpening, but i think that’d probably not be what it looked like. if you don’t like the haze, this might be a candidate for @heckflosse’s rt haze removal.

this image: combination of curve + local contrast:

param:filmcurv:01:x0:0
param:filmcurv:01:x1:0.1
param:filmcurv:01:x2:0.9
param:filmcurv:01:x3:1
param:filmcurv:01:y0:0
param:filmcurv:01:y1:0.0268
param:filmcurv:01:y2:0.9
param:filmcurv:01:y3:1
param:filmcurv:01:black:-3.37732
param:llap:01:sigma:0.18351
param:llap:01:shadows:0.76289
param:llap:01:hilights:0.80412
param:llap:01:clarity:0.38557

darktable 3.5.0~git2429


P1150686_Pointe de la Parata.RW2.xmp (9,3 Ko)