We had a thick fog roll in last night just after dusk; I grabbed my camera and headed to a small water retention pond nearby. The pond has a series of wooden footbridges that have all seen better days; I’ve tried capturing them before, but this is the first time I’ve liked the results.
My attempt:
The DNG:
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Have fun!
My attempt with DT4.4.2
As the image was taken at 2030 at night - I tried to keep it dark and mysterious …
Hello,
A very nice shot, in bad weather I tend to forget my camera, you’re proving me wrong!
I tried to make a black and white version,
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Darktable 4.5,
Greetings from Brussels,
Christian
Rt. 5.9
This is an interesting shot. There are soooo many ways it can be taken, processing-wise. So many moods. Here’s mine, using ART 1.20.2.
I tried to minimize (but not totally remove) the various color / temperature casts here and there. E.g., warm to the upper right. cool to the left. I added a little more contrast to the center and (through vignette and several gradients) darkened the edges in an attempt to focus attention and establish a “visual path” through the image. Dropped WB temp just a little to cool it off overall and obviously removed the warm overall color cast.
Nice shot!
Great image to play with! Thanks for sharing. Here’s my version using DT 4.5 dev.
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Thanks for the great work everyone!
I love that - I had a tough time brighening it enough without removing the fog effect.
Love it! Very gloomy (which it was while I was there.)
Very nicely done. I love the way you balanced the mix of sodium vapor street lights and the white LEDs coming from the left. The inluded WB was because I had the camera set to CTE (which shifts the WB away from white instead of towards it.) I think this is my favourite colour interpretation!
In reality those vertical lines are not actually vertical - that bridge lists rather dramatically (it’s interesting to walk on 
) I do like your B&W conversion, and your crop - the light from the freeway were distracting. I love the sense of depth you got by keeping the mist.
Here I go trying for realism, again. If the photo was made after 10 PM, what was the light source? I just don’t really know what to do. I tried to stay pretty close to the “as shot” presentation.
dt 4.4.2
