- Copy a film roll (a directory of RAW images) into a directory on the machine running Darktable.
- Import the film roll into Darktable.
- Review the images using lighttable mode and remove any images that are beyond repair.
- Take a snapshot of the image so we can do a before and after comparison.
- Adjust the white balance.
- Exposure compensation and recovery.
- Noise reduction.
- Lens corrections.
- Capture sharpening.
- Contrast with levels and curves.
- Crop and rotate the image.
- Colour and selective enhancements such as saturation, colour adjustments and spot removal.
- Resize the image for the web or printing.
- Output sharpening.
- Monochrome plugin
- Channel mixer with the combination of RGB values equalling one.
- Colour zones plugin.
- Improve contrast with tone curve plugin.
- Crop and rotate (including keystone for architectural)
- Shadows and Highlights
- Base curve (turn this off if you don't like it and use your own tone curve - see Tone Group)
- Exposure
- Demosaic (PPG is faster)
- White balance
- Levels
- Tone curve
- Zone system
- Local contrast
- Velvia
- Channel Mixer (check table of film values below)
- Colour Correction for tinting and split toning
- Monochrome
- Color zones (modifies color in images)
- Sharpen
- Denoise - Non local means (see denoising starting point below)
- Lens correction
- Spot removal
- Watermark
- Framing
- Splittoning
- Vignetting
- Soften (Orton effect)
- Grain
- Graduated Density
Film Type (Red, Green, Blue)
- AGFA 200X (0.18, 0.41, 0.41)
- Agfapan 25 (0.25, 0.39, 0.36)
- Agfapan 100 (0.21, 0.40, 0.39)
- Agfapan 400 (0.20, 0.41, 0.39)
- Ilford Delta 100 (0.21, 0.42, 0.37)
- Ilford Delta 400 (0.22, 0.42, 0.36)
- Ilford Delta 3200 (0.31, 0.36, 0.33)
- Ilford FP4 (0.28, 0.41, 0.31)
- Ilford HP5 (0.23, 0.37, 0.40)
- Ilford Pan F (0.33, 0.36, 0.31)
- Ilford SFX (0.36, 0.31, 0.33)
- Ilford XP2 Super (0.21, 0.42, 0.37)
- Kodak T-Max 100 (0.24, 0.37, 0.39)
- Kodak T-Max 400 (0.27, 0.36, 0.37)
- Kodak Tri-X 400 (0.25, 0.35, 0.40)
- Normal Contrast (0.43, 0.33, 0.30)
- High Contrast (0.40, 0.34, 0.60)
- Generic B/W (0.24, 0.68, 0.08)
Take a tenth of the ISO value. So if ISO is 160...
luma 16% chroma 32% (double luma)
Filter ([ev] or f-stop, absorbance, transmittance) ND2 (-1, 0.3, 50%) ND4 (-2, 0.6, 25%) ND8 (-3, 0.9, 12.5%) ND400 (-9, 2.7, 0.195%)
- Import bracketed shots into Darktable.
- Click on Create HDR.
- Turn off all modules in the 'Active' group.
- Adjust the exposure.
With a night shot with a few light sources correct the light source to bring back as much detail into the light source without lowering its intensity. With a daylight show expose the darker parts of the image.
- Use the global tonemap module. Day shot you need to bring out highlights. Night shot bring out shadows.
- Fine tune the exposure.
- Use the equaliser module to increase contrast.
Resources:
Interesting workflow but I have a question about output sharpening: if I define a style with sharpening in the export module will the sharpening be applied after resizing ore before?