Black (should be) dog - how would you proceed ?

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And then, I turned off the monochrome to see what damage I did to the color with the other tools:

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That’s just a nice-looking dog!

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Inspired by @ggbutcher’s monochrome edit:

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I had the same idea as Glenn and Popanz. One way to make your dog black :wink: jpg & gimp

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Thought I would continue my mosaic binge. This time, I used Dr. di Blasi’s Mosaic creator (sadly not easily available any longer) to create the tiles and then used some G’MIC tricks that I know. :slight_smile:

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Some experimentation. Although demosaic passthrough probably isn’t a practical way to do monochrome, even if the image is scaled down afterwards. I’m determined to get the surroundings a bit darker and less contrasty compared to the dog, and keep detail in those darker fur patches.

Watermark module was being very finnicky; sometimes it would just decide not to show the text at all. Only changing the font would fix it. But it would show correctly in lighttable. Then exports made from the broken darkroom view would be missing the text, but an export immediately afterwards from the lighttable view would be correct.

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Also tried a small adjustment to my first edit.

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I felt like kodachrome64 would make the best out of that gorgeous dog but I must say the monochrome look is something I could think of putting into a frame. The separation from the busy background is a lot better with monochrome but I think Spektrafilm did a good job as well here :slight_smile:

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I’m a bit late to your party…

Curious which version’s you like and curious what you’ve learned…

Hope you like it…

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I changed among others:

  • exposure (your picture is slightly clipped, hint photographing a larger black area: make a minus correction)
  • capture sharpening
  • the usual denoise and lenscorrection
  • used tone equalizer to bring up shadows in dog and down highlights om tree stems
  • cropping
  • blurring of surroundings (two steps)
  • local sharpening (dialed back) with contrast equalizer and local contrast
  • used color equalizer to de-saturate your dog (as you wanted it to be more black)
  • accentuated eyes a bit
  • applied black frame
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Also a bit late to this one, but I wanted to have a go to try something I liked with a recent black cat shot I took. Using subtle tweaks to the wide part of the contrast equaliser and a blended low pass to bring out the gloss of the coat rather than the sharp detail.

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