Bee in a crocus flower

Nice photo!


SA701077.ARW.xmp (22.1 KB)

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My version…

SA701077.ARW.xmp (19.8 KB)

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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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This is my try.


SA701077.ARW.xmp (37.4 KB)

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SA701077.jpg.out.pp3 (14.9 KB)

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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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SA701077.ARW.arp (13.2 KB)

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Thank you for the play.

Edit with ART, GIMP and G’MIC:

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SA701077.ARW.xmp (15.1 KB)

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In RT 5.10-dev


SA701077.jpg.out.pp3 (14.3 KB)

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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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SA701077.ARW.xmp (8.6 KB)

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Rt. 5.9


SA701077.jpg.out.pp3 (13.5 KB)

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With RT 5.10-431_lacam16n_


20240305_SA701077.jpg.out.pp3 (26,0 KB)

Greetings!

This White (balance) is the nicest, imo. I like realism with an invisible enhancement.


Cracker image!
This is my approach to it.

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