My fun on GIMP, nevertheless I prefer it like this
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@TonyBarrett The timing of capture is on a level with Martin Parr - very well done!
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I would have preferred more contrast but tried to keep to the brief of a ‘film’ look. (BTW, i would have used a smaller aperture as the island is not sharp.)
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Good point on the Aperture. I’m never certain how sharp I should keep the background or foreground in these shots, though here there’s plenty of separation already so no need for out of focus areas. Also, I guess it’s only slightly out of focus, which indicates a mistake
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@martbetz Agreed.
Bass rock from North Berwick? Greetings from Edinburgh! Lovely shot by the way (sorry, just wanted to say hi, no edits!)
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Very close. Sea Cliff Beach, below Tantallon Castle:
Taken the same day but the light is going the wrong way (annoying!) so had to work the image a bit too hard. Best to get there in the morning, I think
And greetings from Edinburgh, too
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That’s really a lovely beach. I’ve been there at sunrise in winter and I can confirm the light is amazing during that time of the day!
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Lovely
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It has a tweak with the new rgb primaries so it might not load if you try to grab the edit from the Jpg
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Cool
Boris is preparing a video… I think @jandren is preparing to integrate something similar in to the sigmoid module to help with tricky gamut and smooth color transitions
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Zoomed in to 200% I see around the rock island either a weird dirty lens pattern or a lot of birds.
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Is this analogue style?:
20230824_0182_01.RW2.xmp (20.6 KB)
or not so analogue but more towards what I would prefer:
20230824_0182.RW2.xmp (15.1 KB)
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Your processing is great! 
Anyway, your edit shows it very well for me: i prefer modern time’s camera capabilities and i most of the time don’t see any sense in degrading picture quality.
Even so I often desaturate some parts (or specific colours) in a picture to pronounce things, I like colours and in my opinion the World is and should be colourful. 
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Without trying to reflect any particular style I decided to play with the visual impact of this photo.
I made a selection of the boys and increased the saturation. Inverted the selection and reduced contrast and saturation. All done in GIMP and just for the fun of it!
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It’s one of the world’s largest gannet colony
I’m pretty clueless re: film simulation, but I started with a Kodak Ektachrome simulation in ART and went from there:
- Desaturated slightly in the L*a*b* Adjustments module
- Pushed WB warmer
- Skewed highlights yellow, mids cyan and shadows blue
- Tried to simulate some haze / distance to the island by raising highlights some, mids more and shadows even more to reduce contrast (through a gradient filter on the top of the image)
- Added some additional luminance noise
- Added 1 pixel Gaussian blur
- Added a reasonably strong vignette
- Added ISO 200 film grain
I thought about seeing if G’MIC has some wrinkled paper and / or photo border effects but decided against it.
20230824_0182.RW2.arp (18.1 KB)
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