Re: [darktable-user] advice asked

2022-10-05 Thread Bill Wohler
I'm doing something similar to track how my newly-planted California natives are growing. I'm taking the photos one month apart. To keep the photos similar I'm fixing the ISO and f-stop and taking them 30 minutes before sunset to reduce shadows and keep the light somewhat constant. That seems to

Re: [darktable-user] advice asked

2022-10-05 Thread Chris Albertson
I would use a different workflow. Save the images as .tiff format with 16-bit depth. Then convers to a professional *uncompressed* video format. The video file will be huge. Then import to a color grading system. The best one happens to be free

Re: [darktable-user] advice asked

2022-10-05 Thread BWH vanBeest
Hi Ruud, In your case I would seriously consider not only have the camera take .nef-pictures, but create the jpg as well. Then you only need darktable for the images that really need editing. In my experience (Nikon D800, D850) the standard generated jpg-files can be pretty good, whereas

Re: [darktable-user] advice asked

2022-10-05 Thread Šarūnas
On 10/5/22 05:52, Ruud Baart wrote: [...] darktable-cli xxx.nef yyy.xmp xxx.jpg The yyy.xmp file have been created by developing one photo in darktable (gui version of course) and saving the settings in yyy.xmp . However, there are so many possibilities and conditions (night, fog, rain, snow,

[darktable-user] advice asked

2022-10-05 Thread Ruud Baart
Hi, I am working on a project to take pictures of a landscape from a fixed point for several years. I am using a Nikon D40 with AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II and a single board computer (running debian linux) for this purpose. Every day several photos are taken (gphoto) and