So this one got some more than just the usual ‘adjust contrast, desaturate, increase vibrance’ treatment. After seeing what someone made of my fog post with some local contrast etc, I thought I’d experiment a bit. So I first did some work on the overall picture, toning down highlights, increasing ambiance, desaturating and setting the white balance a bit further to the cold side.

But then I added some extra darkening to the shadows of the road to increase its local contrast and lit up the shadowy regions of the mountains. Somehow that makes the image work a lot better now imho.

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    Wow, interesting. Seems odd that any pro editing software would be unable to process a .DNG file

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      3 hours ago

      If you find one that’s not a subscription service and is able to read DNG’s weird color correction matrix tell me, I’ll be all ears. But so far I had no luck and not for lack of investing time in the search…

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        I use CaptureOne (it’s a sub, but I believe they have a lifetime option; I just didn’t want to shell out until I was sure I liked it). If you want to sent me a RAW file, I will give it a go!