French fries

[Airy]

Df, 105/2.5 AIS @f/4, 1/250, 8000 ISO. Processed in RawTherapee 4.2 (my laptop has no Adobe LR)

[Jan Anne]

Very nice Airy, really like the dark grey tones with the yellow and light coming from the take away.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

That certainly looks crisp and clean enough ....

Perhaps RawTherapee has moved on? It was a strange mix of quirks and UI earlier and I never came to grips with it a few years ago thus removed it from my computer.

[Airy]

Jan, the lighting was interesting indeed. The shades of grey or blue come from floodlights outside the frame. While the 105 is less flare-resistant than, say, the Zeiss (1)35/2, it certainly behaves well at night.

Bjørn, Rawtherapee is a bit complicated indeed, and if there is a way to have preset processing, if haven't found it yet. But the results are only slightly less optimal than with LR: not bad for free software. Deserves support.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

More like deserves spanking for presenting a completely non-standard UI with no way of getting a menu system and no way of changing language, now a maddening mix of pseudo-English and pseudo-Norwegian... Ouch. Hopeless.

[Airy]

Yes, it is as quirky as playing a French baroque organ, but if the sound (or image) matters, what the heck. Meanwhile, I tried to process the same RAW file in LR and cannot approach that rendering. It seems that the "highlights compression" feature of RawTherapee is very helpful in getting what you call "crisp and clean". To approach this in LR, I have to reduce the whites to -100 and the highlights to about -60, while fiddling with the overall exposure.

[Fons Baerken]

[Airy]

In Belgium, we call them frieten, right ?

[Fons Baerken]

Belgium, Holland frieten (dikke tieten ) or patat, patat friet.

[Gary]

To my cultural sensibilities #1 is very odd in a very subtle manner.  If the cars were gone, I think it would really improve the image.