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[dqpcoxeas]

There are photographs that from a technical point of view are bad or very bad, but I like to give them one, two…opportunities.
If you’re not one of mine, don’t try this one.
If you like to play, go ahead…

20221125_0010.CR2 (20.7 MB)

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First chance without heating…

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Second chance already hot…

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[Claes]

Hi @dqpcoxeas,

Thank you! This is quite a task
Still, it is very interesting to play around with.
This is my first attempt:

Developed in RT 5.9-dev

Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden

[dqpcoxeas]

Thanks to you
You are brave
I know it’s not easy, it’s about making it fun.

[Claes]

When I first saw your image, I thought
of old Dutch oil paintings — but I did not
want to add a yellow varnish & a gilt frame :-)))

[hatsnp (Nuno Paulino)]

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[Zbyma72age]

My fun in GIMP

[qmpel (blends colors 🎨)]

That was fun, thanks for sharing this beast!

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@Claes

When I first saw your image, I thought
of old Dutch oil paintings

Yeah, thats what I thought also.

[david]

Definitely a challenge! My try in GIMP.

[dqpcoxeas]

You are very brave artists

[LukeDrake]

This was such an impossible mission, but so fun!

2 versions from Darktable 4.0, finally merged in Gimp (with a Darken only layer).

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@dqpcoxeas The framing was very beautiful, by the way, artistic and evocative.

[Thomas_Do (Thomas)]

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[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

Here is my first attempt. DT4.3

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[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

Here is my second attempt using the fusion option in base curve. I suspect many people are unaware of this option in base curve. It is worth exploring this option which is well explained in the user manual.

Personally I real like what fusion in base curve has done with this image. In case you would like to try the fusion option in the base curve module I have attached my editing recipe to follow.

1. Open the image and deactivate the filmic and exposure modules.
2. Activate the base curve module and set the fusion option to three.
3. Move the exposure shift slider to about 2.224 (beyond this brings out too much noise in the underexposed shadows).
4. Activate local contrast and move the detail slider to about 150%
5. Activate shadow and highlights but put the shadow slider to zero.
6. Activate denoise (profiled) module but change the strength to 1.5
7. Activate the colour zones module and reduce the saturation of the magenta zone and raise the saturation in the blue green zone.
8. The image is ready for exporting.

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