I’ve tried a couple of highlight reconstruction settings, filmic RGB recovery, even low pass, soften and bloom filters, I cannot get rid of the darker ring surrounding the centre of the Sun’s disc:
I’ve just realised the uploaded JPG + XMP have weird filmic settings, but my best attempts were not much better, either. I can, of course, blow out the Sun completely, but it’d be nice to preserve a hint of colour – so close to the horizon one can actually look at it.
Looks like a good image to play with. Not yet for me; I have stuff to do; I really should log off. A quick suggestion is to look at PlayRaws (and a few other threads) with sun and people’s sidecars or remarks there. This issue is actually pretty common and fairly easy to handle.
Hi @kofa, I’m a little late in the game but tried this one with @jandren 's sigmoid/crosstalk. Crosstalk delivers a smooth gradient without inversion artefacts.
Others are: white balance with color calibration, a separate instance of exposure to light up the sea a bit, lens correction, crop for the horizon and a bit of chroma-punch with colorbalancergb.
A quick suggestion is to look at PlayRaws (and a few other threads) with sun and people’s sidecars or remarks there. This issue is actually pretty common and fairly easy to handle.
