I really like the colour contrast from the top of the mountain to the bottom, as well as having some trees and flowers in the foreground.
It is a bit more colourful than I remember, though in general I like this edit.
However, there is room for improvement: maybe instead of colour contrast, use colour balance?
Also the maskig is a bit sloppy. Also the sky…it feels fairly natural, though a bit bland.
I look forward to your technical tipps as well as your creative ideas, be them in darktable or any other editor
Edit: accidentially uploaded a wrong file. Fixed now.
Ummm, the picture you posted and the raw image file do not seem to match. I got a bleak picture of a little commercial van in an alley between a lot of big buildings.
As usual, I can’t bring myself to make things as bright as others. Maybe I’m wrong, but it appears to me to be a very early morning shot, because of the light on the mountain peak. I try to edit for realism as my mind sees it, and this is what I got. dt 4,4
PS - My very last step was to add a Haze filter. I kind of wish I hadn’t - the haze may have been real.
It was late in the evening, but I fully understand your train of thought. I am still trying to find a way in between naturalistic/realistic/stylish.
I would say, the mountains are spot on colour-wise, but it was indeed very hazy.
I remember the flowers and trees a bit brighter, but I do like the contrast between the dark foreground and the illuminated mountain top. Thanks for sharing your edit!
Interesting idea!
I kinda wish I had less of the flowers and the trees (not possible from my position), but I like the emphasis on them. I do see quite a bit of haloing on the left side of the trees - I had the same problem and moved the mask a bit to the right/played with the details slider.
Thanks for sharing the edit!
To @dqpcoxeas, @Thomas_Do, @Alyx, @Suki2019 : I did not mean to ignore your edits - they are creative and interesting, I just realized this thread would get messy if I make multiple answers at once… But I will pick up some ideas for further edits, so thank you a lot for your contributions
I’ve not been on this forum much since registering, but saw this thread and thought I’d give it a go. 100% darktable. This was fun but challenging to edit! I decided to go w/ some ISO800 noise at the end. Getting the gradient to look natural while boosting lightness in the midtones is really challenging. I’m still not 100% happy with it … but I need to get back to work
