Insufficient color representation when loading RAW file

[darrail]

I opened the RAW file, but the colors are not represented as I wanted. Why does this happen?

Picture 1 that represents the colors I wanted. This is the standard Mac preview function.

 

Picture 2, RAW file was imported in Affinity Photo. The color on the right side has been crushed.

 

I thought it was caused by the Assistant options/Develop Assistant, so I stopped the assistant function as shown below, but unfortunately it did not improve the situation. How can I set this up so that the colors are not crushed like in the Mac preview (picture 1)? I would appreciate it a lot if you could tell me. Thank you in advance!

 

Supporting Information

■ MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2020, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports),

macOS Big Sur ver 11.5

■ Affinity Photo ver 1.9.3

■ Camera

SONY α7III (ILCE-7M3)

■ Lens

SONY FE 35mm F1.8 (SEL35F18F)

■ RAW file was attached

DSC09882.ARW

DSC09882.ARW

[NotMyFault]

Hi, 

this is a great image, but the light conditions and colors during capture are more than challenging for both your camera and editing.

The thick security glass is extremely challenging as it drastically impacts colors.

Affinity had its own philosophy about RAW development and gives YOU all freedom and tools to edit up to your taste, but on the flip-side does no give results (using default settings) identical or even similar to what other software gives.

I personally would boost green and reduce blue drastically with curves or levels adjustment. You may use masks to edit the different areas differently (skin colors vs. fish in water)

Try to limit editing in Develop Persona to the absolute minimum (lens correction, shadows and highlights) and then switch to Photo Persona as soon as possible as it gives you superior tools. 
 

To be honest, the area which bothers you the most is for me the least relevant part of the image. Never the less, it can be perfectly adjusted to suit your taste.

 

 

 

[David in Яuislip]

Best you can do is play with the white balance to get something acceptable. I'd try temp = 25000K and go from there. Then in the Photo persona apply a curves adjusment with the blue pulled down

The image below on the left is from a different program with temp =50000, tint = -120. The one on the right is APhoto, temp 25000 then using the curve adjustment from the attached psd.  Which is right, dunno, wasn't there. At the end of the day it's subjective and it's your choice that counts. Nice shot

BlueCurve.psd

[carl123]

Before and after image.

There is no magic button in Affinity, but you should be able to get a decent image, if you play around a bit

 

[firstdefence]

Rawtherapee opens the file as per the first image, so whatever rawtherapee is doing that Affinity is not could be the clue to affecting a decent solution for Affinity Photo, or go some way to getting initial settings.

 

You can get better results using a tone curve like this, would still need tweaking but it's certainly closer to the desired result, when you edit the master curve the colour shifts to pinks initially but bending the red channel down a bit brings the blue back.

Ps. I also removed all vibrance on the basic tab, this seems to get the blue glare down to an acceptable level, you can increment vibrance back once to are happy with the rest of the settings.