Fixing broken digital photography with "Filmic". Part 1.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- Ever felt like your photos feel uncanny? Ever felt like your photo looks too dark, but too bright at the same time? Increasing exposure just makes everything worse? "Filmic" is here to save you!
Hue-shifts is something that we see everywhere, constantly, especially in photos or videos taken with smartphones. However, this problem is not limited to smartphones. Hue skews (like the famous "Ratpiss yellow") are everywhere, from 3D Animation, to Big Screen movies. It's very important to recognise it and understand how to avoid it. Otherwise, we might get stuck in this apocalyptic nightmare of image making...
Abney Effect: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abney_e...
Interesting thread on "Scene-referred": / 1534923827385249792
The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Digital Colour: hg2dc.com/
"Filmic rgb" module in Darktable manual: docs.darktable.org/usermanual...
Developing a photo from scratch in Darktable using Filmic rgb:
• [Darktable] Basics: De...
(by me)
"Filmic" for Blender:
• Filmic Color Managemen...
(by Gleb Alexandrov)
Using "Filmic" in Affinity Photo:
• Applying Blender Filmi...
(by Affinity Photo)
Using "Filmic" in DaVinci Resolve:
• Blender Filmic in DaVi...
(by Louis du Mont)
Deep dive into "Filmic rgb" in Darktable:
• Filmic RGB: remap any ...
(by Aurélien PIERRE)
Deep(ish) dive into "filmic rgb", part 2:
• [Darktable 4.0] "Filmi...
Darktable (Open source):
www.darktable.org/
Thank you, Troy:
/ troy_s
Thank you, Aurélien:
photo.aurelienpierre.com
/ aur%c3%a9lienpierrephoto
Support my experiments via Patreon:
/ studiopetrikas
Photos used in the video:
02:34 by Kody Dahl unsplash.com/@kodieodie
02:43 by Corey Young unsplash.com/@corey_untitled
02:53 by Etty Fidele unsplash.com/@fideletty
03:35 by Tvetoslav Hristov unsplash.com/@tsvetoslav
03:40 by Jakob Cotton unsplash.com/@jakobcotton
03:45 by Bohdan Palahai unsplash.com/@bohdanpalahai
03:52 by Alexandra Lowenthal unsplash.com/@alexlowenthal
03:57 by Mo unsplash.com/@meid88
04:04 by Eric Lee unsplash.com/@erc_lee
04:05 by Brandon Hoogenboom unsplash.com/@bhoogenboom
04:05 by Randy Laybourne unsplash.com/@randylaybourne
04:06 by Iwan Shimko unsplash.com/@iwnph
04:09 by Pine Watt unsplash.com/@pinewatt
05:02 by XPS unsplash.com/@xps
05:25 by Scott Evans unsplash.com/@scottsweb
05:30 by Balu Gáspár unsplash.com/@balu_gaspar
Video segments:
00:00 - 01:34 - An experiment with digital colour
01:34 - 02:10 - Hue shift / Hue skew
02:10 - 03:25 - What does "Filmic" do?
03:35 - 05:08 - Photography philosophy rant
05:08 - 05:58 - "Filmic rgb" in Darktable
05:58 - 07:21 - Examples of "broken" colour and fixing it
07:21 - 09:14 - Middle gray / Neutral gray
09:14 - 10:48 - The "Filmic" S-curve
10:48 - 12:17 - Highlight and Shadow desaturation
12:17 - 13:15 - Closing rant
#photography #filmic #filmicrgb #darktable #tutorial
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Mate, you're a rockstar. I was looking at the Kodak library of creative photography and those film photos made in the '70s looked a lot better than what I would capture and develop in Lightroom for example. Now I understand the errors of my way and how I can process photos into looking realistic and filmic. Thank you for the video! You just gained a subscriber :)
Thank you very much for this video! I was absolutely clueless about what the filmic module in darktable really does. Your explanation gave me a big aha moment.
Ha! The funny thing is, I've recorded an hour of content, and I had to keep reminding myself I'm only helping to take the first steps, so I chopped it all off. It's really easy to go on a tangent, but thinking "what are the things I wish I knew a few years ago" helped a lot. Glad you found it useful!
Thank you for the incredibly well done video. Good luck on your quest to increase global understanding of Filmic RGB
Thanks a lot for this video! This makes the usage of the filmic module really easy to understand!
Great explanation about a very interesting topic, especially the biology and the darker = less saturation parts! Thanks!
love this, so glad I clicked on this video
Nice and clear! Thanks. Looking forward to part 2.
Hey, thanks! Glad you found it useful!
Phenomenal stuff.. Subscribed
Now, I finally understand the basics of filmic RGB! You just got a new subscriber (:
Such a clear, practical demonstration of the improvement that filmic makes. Many, many thanks.
I'm very glad you found it useful. Thanks for the positivity!
Useful again, thanks.
Excellent video, subbed.
Thanks to you, I now understand the meaning of this module!
Troy open my eyes! God bless him!
“It’s time for this grotesque mockery of photography to end” 😄👍
By far the best Filmic explanation I've come across... Kudos!!
Does it work on high dynamic/RAW images only? Or it can save 8bit JPG also?
Thanks!
It works on JPGs, to an extent, but there's only so much data to work with... I wouldn't say you can "fix" a JPG, but sometimes improvements can be made.
Well I came from the old film era 60 years ago. And after watching your Part 1. I am going to down load DarkRoom and give it a fair, chance. What do I have to loose? Thank you for taking the time to help me with reeducating myself.
Thanks for the video. I'm wondering whether you had the highlight reconstruction module active or not, and if so, what preference you had set. I'm a bit confused as to why it's on by default in darktable and set to clip highlights, and if it's redundant to the reconstruction in Filmic.
Right, so I have the "Highlight Reconstruction" module disabled, as I use highlight reconstruction in the "filmic rgb" module, when necessary.
That "Highlight Reconstruction" module is meant for when "filmic rgb" module is not enabled.
It's better to use highlight reconstruction tab in "filmic rgb" module, when "filmic rgb" module is enabled.
It sounds convoluted, because it is...
To be honest, I was puzzled to why it's ON by default in the latest Darktable, it shouldn't be, IMO.
@@StudioPetrikas With 4.0 Aurrelian introduced Guided Laplacian mode to the highlight reconstruction module. And from what i have seen in his tutorials, it is always enabled ? (could be wrong though)
@@Funkyskywalker I'm not aware of that. AFAIK, Highlight reconstruction module should be off when working with the Filmic rgb module.
Do you have a specific video as an example?
The figurines with light sabers are a pretty good illustration. 👍
*light swords
Why is there insane color shift when you crank dehaze?
Good question, not sure. I will have to investigate.
For now, you can use the new "Diffuse and Sharpen" module, it has a built-in "Dehaze" preset.
Is there a way to mimic what filmic rgb does on lightroom?
Ligthroom somewhat protects from hue shifts automatically to an extent. But you have no control over it.
I know this is a Darktable Tutorial, but now I wonder how LR does this. :-D
I think it's a similar approach, maybe not as aggressive. And, of course, just because it's "Adobe's secret sauce" stuff, we'll never get to see what's going on there.
@@StudioPetrikas I need to test the filmic RGB curves in Dark Table and Compare this to LRs result.
@@NicolasAlexanderOtto I'd be interested to see that!
R& Darktable gang!😀
Gotta keep up with the technology!
@@StudioPetrikas Great video btw. Not too long and to the point.
Wish there was a Mac build of R&Darktable (now called Ansel) - the developer doesn’t own a Mac.
Great video very informing but I found the background music distracting.
Yes, music is one of those things that can either make or break a video. Frankly, I'm having a hard time listening to my self without it. The video feels dry and disjointed. I might look for another track, or try lowering the volume a bit. Would that help?
@@StudioPetrikas lowering it would be worth trying.
@@StudioPetrikas The thing is, you're not the target audience of your videos. Everything is fine. The important thing is the information - not distracting from it. It's only dry if you're not interested in it. (Or already know all of it, have listened to it multiple times as a creator etc.) Just get rid of the music. Anyway, thanks for the great videos! They're an invaluable resource.
I don’t find the music distracting, but lowering the volume might help. To me the point is your videos are super rich in information, and you present it pretty quickly, so I struggle to keep up. I sometimes need to relisten to sections to grasp the concepts. Perhaps you might slow down a bit?
If you change the Colour Profile to Pro Photo (ROMM RGB) you don't have the same hue problem. CIE LAB is even better to keep consistent and uniform colors. sRGB is not good for editing.
They're just colour spaces. They don't have mechanics such as primary inset/curve/(primary outset) that filmic does.
Eventually, if pushed, they will suffer the same issues as sRGB does.
@@StudioPetrikasI was referring to the experiment with Affinity Photo. The hue change is more uniform in CIE LAB. Then of course Filmic is very good.
Cut the crap music. It just distracts. Mind you, the content of this is gold dust though.
Less ranting and arriving at the point a little earlier would help. Currently, the presentation is average!