Fixing broken digital photography with "Filmic". Part 1.

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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abney_e...
Interesting thread on "Scene-referred":   / 1534923827385249792  
The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Digital Colour: https://hg2dc.com/
"Filmic rgb" module in Darktable manual: https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual...

Developing a photo from scratch in Darktable using Filmic rgb:
   • [Darktable] Basics: Developing a phot...  
(by me)

"Filmic" for Blender:
   • Filmic Color Management in Blender | ...  
(by Gleb Alexandrov)

Using "Filmic" in Affinity Photo:
   • Applying Blender Filmic Looks (Affini...  
(by Affinity Photo)

Using "Filmic" in DaVinci Resolve:
   • Blender Filmic in DaVinci Resolve 16  
(by Louis du Mont)

Deep dive into "Filmic rgb" in Darktable:
   • Filmic RGB: remap any dynamic range i...  
(by Aurélien PIERRE)

Deep(ish) dive into "filmic rgb", part 2:
   • [Darktable 4.0] "Filmic rgb" and reco...  

Darktable (Open source):
https://www.darktable.org/

Thank you, Troy:
  / troy_s  

Thank you, Aurélien:
https://photo.aurelienpierre.com
   / aur%c3%a9lienpierrephoto  

Support my experiments via Patreon:
  / studiopetrikas  

Photos used in the video:
02:34 by Kody Dahl https://unsplash.com/@kodieodie
02:43 by Corey Young https://unsplash.com/@corey_untitled
02:53 by Etty Fidele https://unsplash.com/@fideletty
03:35 by Tvetoslav Hristov https://unsplash.com/@tsvetoslav
03:40 by Jakob Cotton https://unsplash.com/@jakobcotton
03:45 by Bohdan Palahai https://unsplash.com/@bohdanpalahai
03:52 by Alexandra Lowenthal https://unsplash.com/@alexlowenthal
03:57 by Mo https://unsplash.com/@meid88
04:04 by Eric Lee https://unsplash.com/@erc_lee
04:05 by Brandon Hoogenboom https://unsplash.com/@bhoogenboom
04:05 by Randy Laybourne https://unsplash.com/@randylaybourne
04:06 by Iwan Shimko https://unsplash.com/@iwnph
04:09 by Pine Watt https://unsplash.com/@pinewatt
05:02 by XPS https://unsplash.com/@xps
05:25 by Scott Evans https://unsplash.com/@scottsweb
05:30 by Balu Gáspár https://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

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