[darktable-devel] Shadows and highlights recovery in high contrast pictures

2014-10-28 Thread Aurélien PIERRE
Hi ! I'm doing a lot of landscapes with a large dynamic range camera (namely : Nikon D5300 & 14 EV) and even if I love Darktable for more than 3 years, my major issue with it is contrast and shadows/highlights recovery. I mean : keeping the sky and the ground correctly exposed, while exposing on t

Re: [darktable-devel] HDRMerge

2014-10-28 Thread Josep Vicenç Moragues Pastor
Thanks for the advice, it works! The pink and green motion artifacts are very tricky to avoid with any HDR merging tool that operates in raw data, I know. For such images is better to develop the raw files and merge the demosaiced images. Guillermo Luijk's ZeroNoise has some good antighosting

Re: [darktable-devel] HDRMerge

2014-10-28 Thread johannes hanika
re: pixel ghosting and pink/green artifacts. we don't do anything clever about that either, because i think it's more useful to get radiometrically correct output in case everything was setup to align. the one stupid thing we do is look at the full 2x2 bayer block (starting around here https://git

Re: [darktable-devel] HDRMerge

2014-10-28 Thread johannes hanika
works for me: http://picpaste.com/2014-10-28-201346_1920x1080_scrot-1mSLfEXj.png it's only that our float dng are normalised to clipping at 1.0, and these have crazy high values in them. so you need to disable the highlight reconstruction module (see screenshot) and stop down by like 15ev (right