Matrimonio Sara Filippo 2024-05-25–16.26.42.CR3 (22.0 MB)
This wedding photo is very difficult for me to develop. I shot it using a Canon g5xm2, I should have used a flash, but I didn’t.
The light background is very difficult to manage, the border of the subjects are light, too, and simply leveraging the exposition doesn’t solve.
I don’t want to use path masks, they are too difficult to set and to trim.
Any help is appreciated! I’m using darktable.
The photo is licensed Creative Commons, By-Attribution, Share-Alike .
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kofa
May 29, 2024, 3:38pm
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Even without any local/masked operations, there is a noticeable loss of contrast (maybe light bouncing around in the lens?):
I have been unable to improve on it, so I just went with something basic.
I’ve set lens correction to stereographic to avoid stretching the faces on the edges of the group, and just went with the bright light.Matrimonio Sara Filippo 2024-05-25–16.26.42.CR3.xmp (25.3 KB)
My wife says you should probably edit out the cross that only shows Jesus’s feet.
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@kofa , your sidecar gives me the error “white balance applied twice” with dt 4.6.1…
kofa
May 29, 2024, 4:02pm
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Not here, but I’m on the ‘master’ version:white balance , as shot to reference is a new setting:
Simply reset the module.
PD1
May 29, 2024, 5:22pm
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Definitely difficult, mainly because of reflected light from all around, plus a lot of backlight. I ended up fiddling with all kinds of modules, without much success. So in the end I went by the law of the masses, abandoned trying to correct the chap on the right for the benefit of others.
Matrimonio Sara Filippo 2024-05-25–16.26.42.CR3.xmp (21.0 KB)
Really difficult. My try using RT dev.
… re-edit after seeing the purple tint in the highlights
Matrimonio Sara Filippo 2024-05-25–16.26.42_RT-4.jpg.out.pp3 (19.6 KB)
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Popanz
May 29, 2024, 9:32pm
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My fun - ART and GIMP version
Another attempt
Another attempt 1
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Popanz
May 30, 2024, 6:40am
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gigaturbo
May 30, 2024, 12:21pm
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Very hard to avoid halos and artifact on this one
Matrimonio Sara Filippo 2024-05-25–16.26.42.CR3.xmp (16.2 KB)
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I just kept it simple. Saw no reason to rescue the wall behind them, as I thought the bright paches on the right was just distracting. So I basically just brightened exposure and adjusted white balance and cropped. Denoise, sharpening (DorS) and lens correction on top of that. Darktable 4.6.1.
Matrimonio Sara Filippo 2024-05-25–16.26.42.CR3.xmp (15.4 KB)
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david
May 30, 2024, 1:15pm
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Very tricky! This is my second attempt, but leaves a lot to be desired.
age
May 30, 2024, 2:57pm
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My try in rawtherapee, using dynamic range compression mainly to make the lighting less harsh.
Matrimonio Sara Filippo 2024-05-25–16.26.42.jpg.out.pp3 (14.8 KB)
Gracias to everyone for you try!
mlenard
May 30, 2024, 8:43pm
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Matrimonio Sara Filippo_moja_rt_01.jpg.out.pp3 (65.3 KB)
(edit: it has, this edit, obvious issues, perhaps for tomorrow; good night!)
david
May 31, 2024, 10:16am
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Yet another attempt. This time using a blurred, threshold layer as a layer mask. The people are perhaps clearer, but at the cost of lots of artifacts.
