Hi Saint,
"I was also unsatisfied with the rendered color with my D7200 and I also bought the IT8 target and the Colormunki Display to try to correct them. " Having calibrated your monitor is a good start. This way you should see on screen a reasonable representation of your image, similar to how other people with calibrated screens will see it. As for the camera input profile, I was often tweaking green tint in white balance settings in the past. This was my primary motivation, to see if I can get a better starting point with less work. I used the profiles I shared on a few occasions (all outdoors) and they seem to be working reasonably well for me. If I were to shoot in difficult light situation, I carry with me ColourChecker Passport and I would take a shot of it in that specific light. Then create a profile specific to this situation as I described in this article (https://tomassobekphotography.co.nz/articles/create-camera-input-profile-with-ColorChecker-Passport.php) - Once you have things setup, it only takes a few minutes. "Are you using your color profile on top of a base curve ?" I am using the camera input profile only to alter relationships between colours (hence using Linear Rec709 RGB input/output profiles when processing target shot during the profile creation). I still apply base curve and all the other adjustments to produce an image I like. With landscape photography there is a lot of scope to balance dark and bright parts of the image (graduated density filter for bright sky for example). Another of my favourites is zone system, or subtle tweaks with levels on parts of the image (I learned that technique from this ebook (https://resources.digital-photography-school.com/download/landscapes-book/) ). "For example: - JPG: http://dl.free.fr/oveYkaeh3 - NEF: http://dl.free.fr/g2xLlF4lQ ""In the above example, pay attention to the white wall on the left and the color of the head of the bed (light brown). I haven't managed to correct the colors in order to have something like the JPEG (which gives the correct color as I see it with my own eyes). " I tried a quick edit of your image to get reasonably close (without being pedantic) to the Jpeg from camera. I have included both resulting Jpeg and xmp file here - https://www.dropbox.com/s/1nzicnmuaazhule/DSC_4860.zip?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/1nzicnmuaazhule/DSC_4860.zip?dl=0) - Primarily I used spot white balance on lighter grey patches of IT8 target, then turned colour temperature a bit down. Increase exposure. A bit less saturation and some noise reduction; at ISO 2000 the image seems to have a lot of noise to my liking. Your lens wasn't recognised on my system so I couldn't apply lens correction. I hope you find my comments useful. But I don't claim to have much experience - I am just learning as I go ;) Cheers, Tomas ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
