Thanks @pphoto,
thank you for the tips. When I came to a temple the monks started the balloon in the very moment and I had to run to be able to still see the baloon on my lens. No time for settings. I now see that I have 1/1000. Sure that is not well set up for that situation!
The edit is the kind of color spectrum I wanted to create. The flames, smoke, and particles are visible, the dropping burning wax is not lost and you have made a very nice composition, reducing the visible area to the interesting part. Well done!
You made a lot of edits to get to the result and I have checked them all (top to bottom) to understand how you were able to create such a good result.
- Never saw the bilateral filter in shadows and highlights. Makes a big difference!
- Nice subtle but important effect of using shadow color adjustment
- What is the effect of the negative contrast in the lowpass as a overlay? Increasing the low light regions without attenuating the bright areas?
- in profiled denoise in your modules I see “migrate to the fixed algorithm” but if I add nother instance of the same module I dont have that checkbox. How come? Maybe it is because I use the latest dev version in which the one old erroneous anscombe transform algorithms can be fixed.
- looks the color zone saturation settings are the ones that make the trick for why I like the final colors so much. I dont see the hue effect at all.
- looks like you use the tonecurve to reduce the extremely bright shine. Awesome.
- another suble but great change by reducing the temperature slightly.
I often drag and drop the histogram s.t. it is not clipped. This is not done here but still the edit is very nice. I need to understand how to utilize the histogram and exposure module better.
There is definitively much to learn from this edit. Thanks!