Hi all My brother-in-law shot some pictures of me and my wife and sent us the jpg (done with Lightroom). His jpgs had nicely structured clouds in the background. Since he had cropped the image I asked him to send me the NEF file, so I could do the same in darktable. I tried to get the same nice structure into the clouds using, exposure, base curve, shadows and highlights, and contrast and brighness, but somehow failed. In dt it almost looks as if the clouds where mostly clipped. But by decreasing the exposure and having the under/overexposure visualization switched on, I was able to see that the cloud slowly got out of the overexposure step by step and not as a big plain in one step.
By using the shadows and highlights module I was able to regain some of the structure (with some strange colouring), but not all (at least not as much as my brother-in-law using Lr). I can not see why. What am I doing wrong? I currently have dt 1.4.1 running in a 32bit version (due to an Atom 330 CPU). Are there restrictions in the 32bit version or in dt in general i.e. import of NEF files 12/14 bit per channel etc.? (I hope no one feels offended when I compare dt with Lightroom here. I just would like to understand if I am doing something wrong or if there is a limitation in dt. And if there is, I still consider it a great piece of software) Regards Roman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
