I have not uploaded a PlayRaw in a while.
This is a building a few minutes’ walk from us. I’ve photographed it multiple times; it caught my eye again yesterday evening. Here are the in-camera JPG and the raw file for you to play:
The colours were more blue and pink, rather than the purples shown by the camera. As always, feel free to go for a realistic or a moody rendition, and have fun playing!
For me when I see the photo, what I see is the sky, the detailed outline of the trees against the sky, that lovely iron details on the roofline and the lit window… @Jean-Marc_Digne showed what can be pulled out because its a raw file but I found nothing too interesting in there (not criticizing
the edit in any way) and it takes up 2/3 of the photo and presents lots of visual distraction from the main elements that draw my eye… So I did a very quick edit with a crop and keeping much of the image dark to try and give those elements full attention and contrast…
Having not been there I don’t know how it really looked but I went for a post-sunset glow interpretation. I (very) slightly blued the dark greens to further cool them. This image seemed to respond well to both light NR and minor deconvolution sharpening to offset some of the inherent process blurring.
A beautiful photo that invites many different interpretations.
I decided to keep the foreground fairly dark, slightly emphasise the illuminated windows and increase the saturation in the sky. All done in GIMP.
