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_effect Interesting thread on "Scene-referred": https://twitter.com/troy_s/status/1534923827385249792 The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Digital Colour: https://hg2dc.com/ "Filmic rgb" module in Darktable manual: https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/3.8/en/module-reference/processing-modules/filmic-rgb/ Developing a photo from scratch in Darktable using Filmic rgb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiWBZ3FOMo8 (by me) "Filmic" for Blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nYGJI0r2-0 (by Gleb Alexandrov) Using "Filmic" in Affinity Photo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaoeGnv3FGg (by Affinity Photo) Using "Filmic" in DaVinci Resolve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJYVIKjYkO8 (by Louis du Mont) Deep dive into "Filmic rgb" in Darktable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbPj_TqTF88 (by Aurélien PIERRE) Deep(ish) dive into "filmic rgb", part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnfBgK3j1Bg Darktable (Open source): https://www.darktable.org/ Thank you, Troy: https://twitter.com/troy_s Thank you, Aurélien: https://photo.aurelienpierre.com https://www.youtube.com/c/Aur%C3%A9lienPIERREPhoto Support my experiments via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/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 #photography #filmic #filmicrgb #darktable #tutorial