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Neutral Base Curve
There always is a base curve applied to all images in both Lightroom and ACR, that can currently not be turned of at all... I need the correct brightness for my work. We are using in 32 bit HDRIs for lighting in 3D rendering. This means they need to be absolutely unedited in their colour and gamut. Right now I need to use different software (RawTherapee, darktable) because this degrades the quality of our HDRIs to an unacceptable point. But I would like to return to ACR/Lightroom as the TCA (chromatic abberation) removal is a lot better in these... (I'm using Nikons 8-15mm lens and it's not even supoorted at all by darktable and RawTherapee. Please give us access to disabling this base curve, so that we can start using your products again.
The following blogpost of a friend of mine features an image of what this issue looks like on an example image (no edits lightroom vs no edits in other software)
http://blog.hdrihaven.com/how-to-crea...
The following blogpost of a friend of mine features an image of what this issue looks like on an example image (no edits lightroom vs no edits in other software)
http://blog.hdrihaven.com/how-to-crea...
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andrew_rodney
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a year ago
First, you can produce scene referred output** from ACR and LR with a linear gamma. See:
http://www.color.org/scene-referred.xalter
Next, you seem to be a bit confused about 'correct' brightness. No such thing really. Brightness is a subjective perception of a color for humans. Brightness- perceived amount of light (from self-luminous things). Your camera isn't behaving this way. Brightness is the perception of Luminance.
Lightness is perceived. Brightness relative to some average level in an image or environment.Video showing the differences between Lightness and Brightness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq2y2BseUaE&feature=youtu.be
** http://www.color.org/ICC_white_paper_20_Digital_photography_color_management_basics.pdf
Author “Color Management for Photographers"
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todd_shaner_6660895
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