Hello.
I have recently watched part of a youtube video where some professional wedding photographer was proposing a certain way of editing photos. It all ends in some kind of paid course you have to do (which I really do not want) but by looking at his edits I assumed that he did the following 3 major things:
Please advise what you think of my edit and if I achieved the above stated ideas. If you are interested I could also share the raw and sidecar files. Please keep in mind: this was the only wedding I ever shot and I am just a hobbiest.
I guess you already know this, if you applied the modules in Darktable?
That said, I find the compression unnatural (faces, jacket of the boy in front of the bride, etc), it looks like a contrast reduction. I like the negative vignetting though.
If you want to achieve the “glow” that is fashionable in some wedding photos, you may want to experiment with the diffuse & sharpen module, especially the bloom preset. Change the central radius to taste, and try the multiply blend mode (move the fulcrum so that exposure is OK, reduce opacity to taste).
Okay NP…I think there was a post on the forum asking something similar…it had a young couple, the gentleman was in a naval uniform…I think there the question was how to get a look similar to what you are asking but to maintain skin tones…in any case it looks sort of like a bleach by-pass look or maybe there is another description that is more accurate… mayber more of a washed out retro look??
