Nice, @iarga. I’ve come to the conclusion that colour is always going to be difficult with this capture because of the tint in the glass I was shooting through. One needs to compromise either by living with the green, or attempting to correct it and getting augmented pink/purple tones. As for grain, the compromise will remain between sharp details and noise.
Would you mind sharing the details of the colour filters that you applied?
I agree with you. My goal was going for a lot of (deliberately exaggerated) contrast and depth. The other renditions have a much more natural color. “My” tiger is more reddish and lacks the yellow and has a less pink nose (the yellow that makes a tiger a tyger ). I didn’t want magenta/purple in the wood below the tiger. I used the G’MIC “Mixer [PCA]” filter and G’MIC “curves”. With the “Mixer [PCA]” filter I reduced the variability in magenta/blue-green/yello. Therefore less green, yellow and magenta, still there is some green behind the tiger. Then I balanced the result with curves.
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I adjusted the raw black points first, to de-bias the green glass.
Local adjustment spot on the face for some increased light. Other spots used to shore up excess chroma which was distracting from the subject.
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