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 the left on camera to preserve highlights.
Now, I'm achieving this process using a combination of exposure,
shadows/highlights, tonal curves, lowpass filter + negative contrast and
zones modules which is long, complicated and gives unpredictable results :
* shadows/highlights module acts in a limited range (in most cases, it
isn't enough to avoid clipped areas and conserve good general
exposure in the same time) and the radius setting is pretty tough to
adjust,
* tonal curves only allow small adjustments or the result becomes
weird and over-processed,
* zones module doesn't allow to set up just one zone without affecting
all others (or setting it with parametric mask for each zone is very
long and have other drawbacks),
* low-pass filter gives good results with buildings and geometric
shapes, but looks strange and destroy local contrast otherwise,
In the same time, Lightroom seems to achieve this simply and fastly with
separated sliders for blacks/shadows/highlights/whites.
So... Is it possible to imagine something in the Lightroom way in DT ?
Or is there still another solution that I didn't see ? (I tested so many
different ways...)
Thank you !
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