winter contre-jour sunset shot in the city

[nonophuran]

Hello everyone.
Been a while.

Here’s a contre-jour I took yesterday with a Nikon D750 + nikkor AF 50mm f/1.4, typically not an excellent performer when shot against the light.

D75_8022.NEF (28.8 MB)
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(Note: the HaldCLUT used in the RawTherapee Film Simulation module comes from hald-clut/HaldCLUT/Fujifilm XTrans III at master · cedeber/hald-clut · GitHub )

Let me know how you deal with this. I’m finding it hard to achieve nice hues in the sky, without overdoing it, from a saturation perspective.

I’ll show you a (slightly) processed iphone 14 shot:

Not that I want to exactly mimic it, though.

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[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

I was afraid I was overdoing the foreground, but based on what you say you want, I suppose I didn’t go far enough.

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[SCHA]

Here’s my play…

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[Odum]

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darktable 5.4

[age]

Kodak Kodachrome 64 from G’MIC
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Summary

[tankist02]

ART:

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[tbransco (Terrence Branscombe)]

Here’s my try with RT (dev version 5.12-178-g04b435a60). Hopefully, the sky hues are more to your liking. Cheers, and thanks for the play, @nonophuran .

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[Popanz (Uli)]

D75_8022.NEF.xmp (17,9 KB)

[Zbyma72age]

RawTherapee and GIMP

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[Azzy]

darktable 5.4

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[lambda]

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I have tried my best to have not to ugly looking white highlights.

AgX is awesome for this!

[Mattes]

You should have taken the iPhone shot with your Nikon.