Re: [darktable-user] white balance

2017-02-23 Thread Steven Fosdick
Note that if you take a picture of a white card and fill the frame with it in an auto-exposure mode it will come out grey anyway. What I am not sure has been completely addresses is how all of this would work together. I assume you would not have a card in each shot but would start a shoot with

Re: [darktable-user] the negative is as a score, the print is as a performance (Ansel Adams) (long)

2017-02-23 Thread Serge Schmitt
Hello Martin and the list. I post a bit long because, altough I know this list is dedicated to Darkable, of which I'm an "afficionado", it seems important to me to share here and then some thoughts about technique, mandatory related with post- processing, after more than fifty years snapping

Re: [darktable-user] Questions about darktable exposure fusion

2017-02-23 Thread junkyardsparkle
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017, at 09:20, Stéphane Gourichon wrote: > * Darktable basecurve fusion always considers only one image at a time. > Never "two frames", several input files (be it bracketed exposure, > flash/no flash, etc.). You can, however, use darktable's "create hdr" function to

Re: [darktable-user] white balance

2017-02-23 Thread Tim Rolph
On Tuesday, 21 February 2017 16:16:30 GMT Michael wrote: > is there something where we can take a picture of a gray card and then we > click on it and then dt will adjust all of the colors so that the gray card > is > 33-33-33%? > > by the way: what is the color of the remaining 1% Anyone wanting

Re: [darktable-user] Questions about darktable exposure fusion

2017-02-23 Thread Colin Adams
It has for a long time. On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 at 18:03 Michael wrote: > cool darktable now does HDR! > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Stéphane Gourichon < > stephane_darkta...@gourichon.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > Darktable exposure fusion released after 2.2.0 is

Re: [darktable-user] Questions about darktable exposure fusion

2017-02-23 Thread Michael
cool darktable now does HDR! On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Stéphane Gourichon < stephane_darkta...@gourichon.org> wrote: > Hello, > > Darktable exposure fusion released after 2.2.0 is interesting. I tested > it, and as expected it brightened pictures a bit like draco tone mapping >

[darktable-user] Questions about darktable exposure fusion

2017-02-23 Thread Stéphane Gourichon
Hello, Darktable exposure fusion released after 2.2.0 is interesting. I tested it, and as expected it brightened pictures a bit like draco tone mapping operator but with more natural colors and different style of controls. Great! LWN wrote about it in A look at darktable 2.2.0 [LWN.net]

Re: [darktable-user] the negative is as a score, the print is as a performance (Ansel Adams) was: white balance

2017-02-23 Thread Chris Siebenmann
> I own a gray card but I almost never use it. I usually set the white > balance where it looks good to me. Sometimes even a bit towards the > one or the other side depending on the mood I want to have in the > picture. I don't care too much about "exact" physical white balance. I completely