Fujifilm X-T2 Processing challenge

[stenrasmussen]

This is a shot taken with the X-T2 and 90/2 at f/4. With so many RAW converters out there I thought it might be fun to see how your converter of choice does. It is a challenging file as the houses in the far distance are tricky to get details out of.
Here's a link to the file in my Dropbox:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21535730/X-T2%20Files/DSCF1651.RAF

Please post 100% crops as well.

[simato73]

Cool, I'll give it a try later.
Would you like contributors to comment how the developed the file and with which software, for shared learning?

[stenrasmussen]

Cool, I'll give it a try later.
Would you like contributors to comment how the developed the file and with which software, for shared learning?

Very much.
1. Raw converter
2. Development process (main steps)

[Fons Baerken]

Photoshop cc2017, some niks detail extractor, the regular like contrast settings, shadow/highlight.

[stenrasmussen]

Here is one of my tries.
1. Photo Ninja and Photoshop for the jpeg to
2.
- Smart lighting, adjusted Illumination to 12.
- Sharpening 50/60/100
- Render to full size jpeg very high quality
- Photoshop: Grabbed 100% crops and a little Smart sharpening.

[stenrasmussen]

Photoshop cc2017, some niks detail extractor, the regular like contrast settings, shadow/highlight.

Colourful! 100% crops perhaps?

[Bill Mellen]

Quick pass - Irident Developer Windows Beta - Lightroom, minor sharpening and clarity with brush on the far shore.  Irident sharpening low, LR sharpening 5, Adobe Standard Profile



Cropped



Obviously further processing will enhance the far shore

Please click to view larger on SmugMug

[aerobat]

Wow cool to see a rainbow appear in Bill's development. Well done!

My attempt with Lr CC:

[charlie]

Here it is ran through both Lightroom and Capture One 10. I went through each one pushing and pulling until I arrived here, a bit moodier, not trying to match one version to the other except for overall brightness. While I did adjust individual colors hue, saturation, and lightness a little bit, I suspect the main difference in color interpretation between the two was in LR I raised Vibrance and lowered Saturation and in CO there is no Vibrance so I only desaturated.

(You may want to view the 100% crops in a new tab at full size)

1 - Lightroom
2 - Capture One
3 - Lightroom 100%
4 - Capture One 100%

[MFloyd]

Herewith, my editing in Lr:

[Frode]

Adobe Camera Raw

[simato73]

My attempt, developed in Iridient. Please note this is just a RAW edit starting point, I would probably do more to this image in another program.

I used the Fujifilm X ProNegHi v3.3 preset,
Exp -20, Fill +10, Contrast -10, Shadows +15
Vibrance +15
Clarity +10
Iridient Reveal sharpening (0.55, 200, 4, 0); Noise reduction 3.5 (2,0,2,0,3)
Default lens corrections

[John Geerts]

Translated in CC to a 16 bit Tiff file (at neutral settings without changes), otherwise DXO - 10 can't read the file.

Template - Landscape - General
Colorrendering - Color Positive Films - Fuji Velvia

Moved to CC for crop and automatic downscaling
No extra manual sharpening done.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Amongst those results presented so far, Iridient seems to deliver the better output. Interesting. Hopefully this RAW converter will be available on other platforms (Windows, Linux) in the near future.

[Woodley Willie]

Above my pay grade...