Whether something escapes that range isn't terribly important unto itself. How a value escapes a display referred transform is much more important. To compare, look at the sRGB EOTF when your exceed it in a render. Especially with saturated colours. The shoulder is nasty, the chop is low, and many other issues.
A proper shoulder takes care of things looking too ghastly, coupled with a desaturation to help smooth things out. But again, that choice is always aesthetic.
@OldMan That is however, an aesthetic choice. The problem with faking things to fit into the display referred range is that you frequently bust ratios. If for example, we ND the hell out of a window, we are also simultaneously destroying the light it is permitting in.
@OldMan There are of course other tricks, like using a screen that would not block light coming in but constrict the background, etc. In the end however, it is tricky stuff.
@OldMan You already have that in the Filmic set via false colour.
@OldMan (I am rather flattered by all of the attention everyone seems to have been directing my way of late, but let me be clear: I am no expert on anything. Just another turd in the bowl, floating around.)
If you left click on an image then you see two sets of rgb values. I think the left values are linear and the right ones are display referred. Is that right ?
I am not saying you are an expert but I kind of appreciate some things you know ;)
@troy_s yes I was thinking of render it with sheepit but they didn't allow exr.
I'm impatient to see the final render 2700*3600px, reflective and refractive caustics on, 24bounces, 10000samples. But I'm not in a hurry so my titan x + 780ti will do the job.
@Mareck you might like this video on Deadline using AWS/EC2 and Brenda using EC2. I have Deadline installed for "home use" (for my mini render farm of 2 computers) and it is really supers. youtube.com/watch?v=NkZ60lF-nKM
@Mareck you can also run Deadline that part of the job renders on your home computer and part of it renders on EC2. If you select Spot Pricing on EC2 I think the cost will be quite low.
@troy_s by the way, with the introduction of the filmic-blender LUTS I think the base contrast is already pretty good / very fine. I guess for fine-tuning ASC CDL is still handy ? But now only with very small increments ?
