Talking of which, I just reworked this image, using an appropriate DCP profile from the Adobe DNG Converter installation that @platypus talked about here Color behavior - Any answer? - #21 by platypus as a starting point.
It really gives an amazing starting point, with a properly flat rendering that was easier to work with - at least, that’s my opinion.
Here’s an export of the finished result…
And here are the steps I took to get there.
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Apply the four Optical Corrections and set the colour temperature to 5600°K ±0
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Apply the Flat camera profile for your camera.

You’ll need to import the profile from where @platypus showed by selecting the rendering drop-down and navigating to the folder.
This then gives…
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Now, apply a couple of Spot Weighted Smart Lighting areas: one to the bright building on the left…

Note how clear the lights are without having to reduce the exposure. This means you got the exposure spot on.
Now apply a second area to the darkest part of the bottom right…
Once again, you can see that the lights are not flared.
This then gives you this…
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Now reduce the top of the tone curve and increase the bottom, and add a bit of fine contrast…
… to give you this…
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Add in a touch of Vibrance…

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Turn on the DeepPRIME NR and apply a Force Parallels perspective correction and crop…
And that’s just about it. Subject to your approval of course ![]()
Here’s the DOP file with my version added…
_MJM9021 | 2021-09-28-Sun setting over Biscayne Bay.nef.dop (26,2 Ko)







