That’s why I wrote it FEELS perfect and not LOOKS perfect 😃 What I meant was it feels like it was shot on a hot desert planet.
GOTCHA… Your bases were fully covered by good grammar. 😃
To really run this “into the ground” though I did some experimentation.
I took Towne’s 2.7 and PUMPED up the saturation in VLC as well as a slight contrast boost:
Look at how close it is to the IB photo:
And simply for reference, here is Towne’s version with no image filtering:
What does that tell or teach us? In shows us how the RED/GREEN/BLUE levels can be spot on but there can still be tremendous differences visually because of how much Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation can effect the image.
I think the v2.7 version looks perfect.
Here’s what my last corrected frame looks like with a boosted saturation:
