Not that i want to stick my foot between this conversation, oh i did sorry, but in another application there Smart-lighting called dodging n burning was also when used flattening contrast and reducing overal punch. To reduce that effect i added alway’s some blacklevel.
And to be more detailed blacklevel was also to use for clearing haze (also according to manual). (now they have also a “dehaze slider” so i don’t know if the behaviour of blacklevel is changed.) But say it didn’t, my memory is ringing, somewere here on forum is clearview discussed about how its applying those microcontrast “dots” of black(level).
Here was Smartlighting and clearview explaned by Benoit
To connect blacklevel/blacks to clearview: Influence of manual adjustments on "(Blue)MagicWant" auto mode ( editted for more clarity :-) )
edit: i did small test and clearview: enhanched the lower level of histogram changing overal form of the histogram.
off and 50% CV
Blacklevel is a contrast tool and not present in DxO, lowest is shadow.
So over to other app, manual state:Black level controls create clarity of the dark areas.
You can specify the level of black with this function. When increasing this parameter, the color black becomes deeper black.
This function works effectively when a picture is taken against the sun and the image becomes unimpressive, or when a landscape image becomes washed out, or when a landscape image becomes obscured or influenced by haze.
dodgenburn 100% and blacklevel 24points:1/3 of slider:
turning SL off and DnB off blacklevel becomes much more dark (histogram is prested against 0 side) when i push blacklevel and Clearview to 100%. So Blacklevel is a more basic version of “dehazing” and in clearview the overal histogram form keeps spread more from 0-255. Its far more suptle in adding blacklevel contrast.
Benoit told they added a second filter for the more strong applied CV.
To avoiding luminance halo around strong transitions, would that keeping DR be the cause of that?
100% blacklevel (contrast)
100% CV filter.
So i would be interested to see what histogram differance is to see between PL1 and PL2 version of CV. Because i think lowering highlightpixels is lowering haloglow. and clearing up haze even.more.
I did a two stage dehaze/polaroidglasses effect on fish in water and using both tools of the applications got me the best result in losing that surface glance.
Would it be the second filter he talks about? Actual blacklevel increasing and decreasing highlight parts?
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