Dunno if it's cheating: I made an exposure series from the raw (0, +1, +2, +3 EV), created an HDR (in darktable), tone-mapped in darktable, applied velvia and vibrance, equalizer (clarity), tone curve with the mid-contrast preset, levels, a bit of ND filter for the sky. Probably overdone, but I'm not and HDR guy anyway. http://photos.kovacs-telekes.org/Other/Darktable-issues/Misc/i-DcvFTJX/A
As for the others' submissions - thanks for the suggestions, the trick with the base curve was a nice one, I've made use of it to recover some shadows on a photo where the light came from directly above the subject, casting the face and the eyes in deep shadows. Kofa On 12 January 2015 at 21:22, Oliver Bedford <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > Thanks to everyone who responded. I learned quite a bit. > > Key learning for me was the massive but on the other hand subtle (so as > not to lose any details) tweaking of the base curve. > > In my own experiments I tried to get as much visual information out of > the shadows as possible. Getting the most natural look was not my top > priority, but at the same time I certainly didn't try to create some > sort of artifical "Wow"-effect (pseudo-HDR really is a modern disease). > > I think there are three main challenges when pushing the shadows: > > 1) Avoiding edge artefacts (halos, "burned" edges, etc. see the building > below the highlight but also the mountain edges to the right) > 2) Preserving highlights > 3) maintaining or even boosting contrast in the shadows > > For example I found the tonemapping module to be quite helpful for 2), > but it introduced heavy artefacts, so I dropped it. > > Overall I found the contrast in the shadows to low, thereby losing a lot > of three-dimensionality in the buildings. > > What I still don't fully understand is the effect on the noise. To me > the dpreview image looks cleaner (esp. in the areas of homogenous colour > the noise has a somewhat "finer granularity"). I leave this to further > experimentation. ;-) > > On a sidenote: I'm still on Ubuntu 12.04. To make use of the .XMP-files > I had to compile dt 1.6 from source and encountered the same behavior as > reported in "[darktable-devel] Compiling with Custom CXXFLAGS?" by Rico > Wendrock (my system: Intel® Core™ i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz × 8 and kernel > 3.13.0-43-generic). Proposed workaround worked for me. Seems to be a > general problem and not due to one broken gcc installation. > > Regards, > Oliver > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. > GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. > Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. > Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. > www.gigenet.com > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. www.gigenet.com _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
