Tried the new RawTherapee 5.5 with this image. Here is the result.
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A try using darktable 2.6.0rc2 with the new filmic and updated color balance modules
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Totally Off Topic, but have you noticed that the S-cube is up-side-down?
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
@stefan.chirila If I am able, I might try going there to take some photos myself.
Both are. I wish the third âSâ were a âDâ. They were just kids yesterdayâŚ
Gulp. I missed that one
The tiniest strobe can have a massive improvement, especially for short range stuff like portraits. Also they can be set and forget automatic. Set you exposure on your camera a stop slower (800 rather than 1600) set your strobe to the correct metered value (1600), and pop away. A simple move like this takes half the light from the strobe, half from the scene. Experiment with more and less fill from your strobe and have fun.
Happy holidays guys (and gals if any)
Sorry for the late feedback @stefan.chirila
I had a lot to do in the last weeks and couldnât answer.
I didnât use RT but darktable and only rudimentarily for white balance and noise removal without base curve.
For white balance I have chosen a small grey dot from the womanâs shawl
I did most of the work in GIMP and yes, I have done selective edit by splitting models and background.
I treated them separately.
The idea was not to process the photo itself but simply to show you how I imagine the result in such a situation.
That was all in RT. I shifted the hues of the yellow wall behind them closer to orange, since that is closer to their red jackets. I white balanced off of the guys grey collar, but I thought it was too yellow, so I made it a little cooler than that with the WB slider.
Yeah, itâs amazing how it seems possible to bring a corpse back to life with a dash of orange - in my experience. Let me hasten to add that this couple is quite alive and looking much better than that! I know the orange-shift trick is maybe the easy way out, but for some underexposed, artificial light stuff it seems to be necessary.