From my “bee shooting”. Nice details, have fun.
SA701077.ARW.xmp (25.3 KB)
SA701077.ARW (46.8 MB)
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Saw an opportunity to pull the shadows into oblivion, isolate that oh-so-bright flower and its occupant.
Used a loggamma curve followed by a control point curve to pull the background low while keeping the flower bright and gradatated. I also used my new sRGB-HLG export profile.
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My play in GIMP.
I have tried to increase contrast on the bee and to a lesser extent on the flower using luminosity masks. Added a little sharpening using wavelet decompose - which I hope I have not overdone.
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Hello,
Nice photo, here’s my version, I used one of my LUT to refine the rendering, here it is.
Nature_lavande_lumineuse.zip (9.9 MB)
SA701077.ARW.xmp (18.3 KB)
Dartable master (4.7)
Greetings from Brussel,
Christian
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Fantastic close-up!
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My take.
Local contrast, brought down the green in color zones, boosted sharpness, used a couple of tone equalizers to boos shadow especially on the bee. cleaned up a few distracting pollen dots and the one big one behind the bee. posted vibrance, chroma and saturation
SA701077.ARW.xmp (27.2 KB)
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Hi @Jon_Larson welcome to the forums! It is customary for play raw edits that you post your sidecar file or at least describe in some detail what you’ve done so that others can learn from your edit.
updated the original post, thanks for the pointers.
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Edited in Darktable and then applied the Illustration filter from G’MIC via GIMP. See Highlight Bloom and Photoillustration Look for details.
SA701077.ARW.xmp (12.0 KB)
While this might be a bit unconventional, I went back into Darktable to brighten and clarify the image. Here’s the XMP for the JPEG:
SA701077.jpg.xmp (12.8 KB)
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