Thanks @afre.
Very interesting shot @corneel_van_maele, I went for some painterly style on this one with RT 5.8.
_MG_7830.jpg.out.pp3 (12.4 KB)
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Beautiful shot and I think @agriggio already pretty much nailed the processing on it. Here is a slightly different take in portrait.
Portrait orientation allowed me to get rid of the distracting bush on the right but cost a lot of really pretty sky. I think at least for the portrait crop I would have shot a bit lower to compress the foreground and move the diagonal of the hill up the stem just a bit more maybe I’d also a step to the right to create just a bit more distance between the sun and the tree.
_MG_7830.CR2.xmp (26.6 KB)
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This is my first attempt at Play Raw. I feel like I cheated a little bit with a 3dLUT, but it’s at reduced opacity.
_MG_7830_01.CR2.xmp (15.6 KB)
Edit: I originally uploaded the LUT, but on reflection, I realized it would be better to link the page I found it on, instead of posting something that wasn’t mine. I used the “Velvia” one.
hah, nice. looks exactly like
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Ah, I think I know what you mean: the tree as a symbol of life and the dramatic sky as divine light.
Where did you find this pic? I think it’s not the official poster of the movie. Is it a still form the movie?
Btw: it is a really interesting question where this motif/subject comes from. I am sure that is this not one of the oldest depictions of a tree with a dramatic sky but I am annoyed that I did not find a much older example in the net since yesterday evening. It would probably require at least some days research in libraries.
There is this but it’s not quite the same:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/354633
@Jonas_Wagner did you know the pic hanatos shared? Or another similar pic that inspired you?
@betazoid I did not have any photo in mind in that case. Just tried to get a pleasing composition (to my eyes anyways), deal with the dynamic range and to bring out the color contrast a bit. So I guess the similarity is a bit of coincidence.
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hm i just know it as a poster that was hanging in our hallway at work. i think it may be on the cover of the soundtrack?
I love your take on this, but what did you do in Gimp before taking this into Darktable? When I load your Darktable sidecar file, the image comes out very over exposed for me.
Thanks @pulck!
In GIMP I first used GMI’C filter “impaint (multi-scale)” filter to “recreate” overexposed area and then with brush done some dodging and burning using a transparent layer with soft light blend mode.
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I have been playing a little with ART lately and this was one of the practice images:
_MG_7830_ART.jpg.out.arp (17.0 KB)
I then added some more atmosphere in Gimp:
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This is my interpretation:
_MG_7830.CR2.xmp (14.2 KB, dt 3.3)
Adding grain and LUT3D can result in very dystopian scenes:
Amazing pic! Had fun playing with filmic on this one.
_MG_7830_03.CR2.xmp (11.5 KB)
I noticed if I pushed filmic too hard, it showed a rainbow type effect around the sun!
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I asked this because I thought this change was extremely helpful in controlling the bright highlight in the center.
Here’s my approach:
Backlit tree .xmp (74.0 KB) dt3.3
There were several spots on the lens, and I removed a couple with retouch. I have watched the Bruce Williams video on retouch, and I have used it with GIMP. It seems to take many more masks to get, to me, satisfactory results in dt than with GIMP. In fact, it seems to not work as well now as I remember it in the past. Am I not using it correctly?
backlit.tree.pp3 (20.9 KB) RawTherapee (Latest development version)
I’m working on my RawTherapee skills and thought this one deserved a try. Really nice one to give the RT modules a try and see what they can do (or more realisticly: What I am capable of doing with them atm…).
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Sorry for the late reply. I don’t remember why I did that. To be honest I don’t even know what it exactly does. I guess it was just convenient to choose where middle gray lies rather than moving the white & black points. I need to learn more about the exact workings of the filmic rgb module some day. 