Harmy said this shot was a problematic shot to do. This is one that may not be prefect  but I did see the WP once and it looks very improve over V1.

Harmy I know you don't like to say when V2 is going to be finish but could you give us some ballpark figure? I hate to put it like this but the WP was like four play.  I am ready.:)

Troy.

ps  no ones laughs at my jokes.

Harmy said:

Yeah, free DL from RS is somehow really fast now and upload too, that's why I chose it in the end.

@builditup:

Thanks. I actually just did that and I must say even I didn't realize how much of a difference there was.

Check this out (v1.0 top v2.0 bottom):

I dare say the crushed blacks aren't even going to be an issue this time.

Harmy, that gridlike pattern across the bottom picture when opening in photoshop, especially visible when zooming in on the darker areas (or lowering contrast), what is it?

Sometimes a gridlike pattern appears due to video or jpg compression, which might be what you're seeing, though I don't see it in this case.

OK, so this is what I did with this scene. I've been at it for quite some time and am honestly sick of it, so I hope everyone is ok with it looking this way:

Harmy said:

OK, so this is what I did with this scene. I've been at it for quite some time and am honestly sick of it, so I hope everyone is ok with it looking this way:

 

Harmy, this looks very good, imo, and is a big improvement.  Well done.

I decided to shift the hue a tiny little bit, which seems to improve the skintones. I'll post some pics later :-)

Harmy said:

Perhaps I'm alone in thinking this, but I find the orange sun in this latest example too dull.  The colour looks better than in work print #2 (leaning more to red than orange), but its vibrance just looks off... Compare (from 2nd work print):

That being said, if the latest attempt is closer in terms of theatrical accuracy, then I understand the need to go with it, it's just that I remember it looking brighter.  What source are you using to gauge the colour of the orange sun Harmy?

At any rate, I should end by saying that, whatever you decide to do will be a hundredfold improvement over what's on the Blu-rays.

Yeah, actually I think I'll have to redo that shot once more, I have a very good reason to believe the sun shouldn't be so orange, the shot shouldn't be this bright and it should have more of a purple cast to it.

pittrek said:

Harmy said:

Yeah, actually I think I'll have to redo that shot once more, I have a very good reason to believe the sun shouldn't be so orange, the shot shouldn't be this bright and it should have more of a purple cast to it.

Some new reference pics ? :-)

Maybe... ;-)

Here's the result, it may look quite different from what you're used to but I'm quite confident it's close to how it should be:

Yeah, that's another thing that should get better by shifting the hue slightly.