Warm colorful day in fall

Processing Play Raw
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My take with ART

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I wonder, if theese bus stop signs have some physical properties (e.g. reflective coating) that gives rise to problems to keep the colors in gamut.

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My effort…compressed the highlight/shadows a bit tweaked the sign a bit and took a white balance from the smaller sign that was in the sun…the one with the white border…

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ND800_0005626_anonymized_tree11061×7386 15.5 MB

Bit more punch with contrast eq
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ND800_0005626_anonymized_tree_0111061×7386 19.5 MB

EDIT After looking at the areas the OP cited lack of detail it seemed that the examples were reflecting washed out hightlights…so I took another run at it this time using filmic with a preset using the linear curve slope of 1 and latitude of 99% as documented in the manual. I used this sometimes when I don’t need filmic to do too much…

I have again gone the route of keeping strong shadows and not done any elaborate masking and the like…focus was the yellow sign and the leaves…

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ND800_0005626_anonymized_tree_0411061×7386 14.8 MB

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ND800_0005626_anonymized1619×1080 1.65 MB

ART, ND800_0005626_anonymized.tif.out.arp (10.8 KB)

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ND800_0005626_anonymized1618×1080 1.26 MB

Darktable 3.7, ND800_0005626_anonymized_01.NEF.xmp (11.6 KB)
with filmic trick (thanks to the forum). DT results often have a greenish tint, corrected here. I see oversaturation here, maybe colorprofile problem, I’ll leave it for now.
No chance for requested sharpness/clarity. Maybe CaptureOne “lies” a little bit?

Very interesting picture for studying “color correctness”.
Happy editing!

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thanks for posting
darktable 3.6.1

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ND800_0005626_anonymized_2k_012000×1336 1.1 MB

ND800_0005626_anonymized_02.NEF.xmp (16.8 KB)

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With darktable 3.6.1

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ND800_0005626_anonymized7374×4924 14.8 MB

ND800_0005626_anonymized.NEF.xmp (9.1 KB)

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Colors and saturation look fine to me. :+1: I have to inspect your sidefile.

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You are lucky here to have that smaller sign with the white border being in the path of the light. In this case though you might actually not want a neutral wb but you can use it as a starting point. In a photo like this I would wb using CC on that white border and then change the drop down to custom. Then using the chroma slider remove some of the correction to bring back just enough color cast to give the light the right feeling. Adding chroma makes the correction stronger if DT doesn’t add enough but usually I find it can be a bit neutral or cold in a photo in bright sunlight so reducing the correction slightly can bring back some nice lighting… I actually have used this with skin as well. Sometimes the skin has a cast created by the lighting. I will use the picker on the skin which neutralizes it and then I will take the chroma down bringing back the skin color to taste without as much cast. Sometimes this leave the global lighting just right esp if you don’t have a good neutral element in the photo…it may not be a technically correct approach but it gives a nice result to my taste…

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Many thanks for explanation.

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ND800_0005626_anonymized-photoflow-GIMP_LAB3687×2462 4.11 MB

photoflow-GIMP 2.10.28-LAB

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My attempt at something somewhere between realistic and graded with a red tint. Forgot to turn off night mode so hopefully the colours are alright :upside_down_face:

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ND800_0005626_anonymized.NEF.xmp (11.3 KB)

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I just like that there is a square and a bus stop named after Dietrich Bonhoeffer!

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Beautiful image.

This is the first edit I’ve really tried in several weeks. Maybe I did ok. dt 3.6

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ND800_0005626_anonymized.NEF.xmp (8.6 KB)

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Very nice image.
This is my take with dt 3.7.x

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ND800_0005626_anonymized.NEF.xmp (10.7 KB)

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I tried to stick to your original image as close as possible, without spending too much time on it though.

You will be able to apply the full extent of the XMP settings only in darktable 3.8 (out in a big month).

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ND800_0005626_anonymized2048×1368 1.13 MB

ND800_0005626_anonymized.NEF.xmp (38,4 Ko)

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Hello,

Here is my suggestion with DT 3.6.1.
Beautiful autumn day
Christian

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This is my take with DT 3.6

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ND800_0005626_anonymized.NEF.xmp (13,3 KB)

Thank you for this picture

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Here is my take using RawTherapee Dev and this LUT converted for use in RT.

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ND800_0005626_anonymized-17370×4916 25.3 MB

(Image uploaded full res to showcase clarity)

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Thanks to everyone of you for your edits.

To wrap things up, I am posting an updated comparison for all the images that were posted at full size or that a came with a Darktable 3.6 settings file.

I cropped with

magick convert input.jpg -crop 400x400+4374+2079 crop1.jpg
magick convert input.jpg -crop 400x400+4868+2014 crop2.jpg
magick convert input.jpg -crop 400x400+3480+1860 crop3.jpg
magick convert input.jpg -crop 400x400+3206+4132 crop4.jpg

Concerning the clarity of the details we have:

  1. reference, Capture One 11:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_ref_crop3 ND800_0005626_anonymized_ref_crop4

  2. Thomas_Do, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_01_crop3 ND800_0005626_anonymized_01_crop4

  3. Jade_NL, RawTherapee:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_Jade_NL_crop3 ND800_0005626_anonymized_Jade_NL_crop4

  4. CarVac, (FIlmulator and RT):
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_CarVac_crop3 ND800_0005626_anonymized_CarVac_crop4

  5. age, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_02_crop3 ND800_0005626_anonymized_02_crop4

  6. gaaned92, ART:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_gaaned92_crop3 ND800_0005626_anonymized_gaaned92_crop4

  7. priort, ___:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_priort_tree_02_rescaled_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_priort_tree_02_rescaled_crop4

  8. Jean-Marc_Digne, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_03_crop3 ND800_0005626_anonymized_03_crop4

  9. arctic, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_04_crop3 ND800_0005626_anonymized_04_crop4

  10. noahwc, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_05_crop3 ND800_0005626_anonymized_05_crop4

  11. Tim, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_06_crop3 ND800_0005626_anonymized_06_crop4

  12. Christian-B, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_Christian-B_crop3 ND800_0005626_anonymized_Christian-B_crop4

  13. Jose_Figueres, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_07_crop3 ND800_0005626_anonymized_07_crop4

  14. chaimav, RawTherapee:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_chaimav_crop3 ND800_0005626_anonymized_chaimav_crop4

The details in 5 (@age) are good, but they were tuned with the sharpen module which is discouraged in the scene-referred workflow.

Other edits are promising too, but I haven’t yet looked into the settings.

And of course, I can’t wait for Darktable 3.7 to ship:

As for the yellows we have:

  1. reference, Capture One 11:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_ref_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_ref_crop2

  2. Thomas_Do, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_01_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_01_crop2

  3. Jade_NL, RawTherapee:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_Jade_NL_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_Jade_NL_crop2

  4. CarVac, (FIlmulator and RT):
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_CarVac_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_CarVac_crop2

  5. age, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_02_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_02_crop2

  6. gaaned92, ART:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_gaaned92_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_gaaned92_crop2

  7. priort:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_priort_tree_02_rescaled_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_priort_tree_02_rescaled_crop2

  8. Jean-Marc_Digne, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_03_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_03_crop2

  9. arctic, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_04_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_04_crop2

  10. noahwc, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_05_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_05_crop2

  11. Tim, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_06_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_06_crop2

  12. Christian-B, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_Christian-B_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_Christian-B_crop2

  13. Jose_Figueres, Darktable 3.6:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_07_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_07_crop2

  14. chaimav, RawTherapee:
    ND800_0005626_anonymized_chaimav_crop1 ND800_0005626_anonymized_chaimav_crop2

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Hey Todd, your edit features some halos in the blue of the sky along the edges of the trees. I had the same issue in Darktable and found that the Chromatic Abberation module is to blame.
When I turn it off, the halos disappear (and sharpness is gained).

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