The plan was to shoot a chosen location at sunrise.
The day dawned with full cloud, dull and grey, darkening the mood.
The path was narrow and treacherous, constricting creativity.
Half an hour in and it started to snow, freezing fingers and thumbs.
If I wasnt feeling the photography I was certainly feeling that. Painfully cold.
A few more snowy snaps on the way back to the car and home.
Of course on the drive back the clouds opened to reveal the most gorgeous pastel orange and blues.
Gnarragh.
Pulled this from the detritus of the morning.
Not bad for a 20 megapickle sensor nearly 20 years old.
Is there noise? Yup. Is it soft? Oh yeah.
None of that detracts from the composition.
Maybe you could pull something else out of the reeds.
Edited using darktable 5.4.0. Because I’m currently often switching between filmic and agx, I had set my auto-apply workflow to None, and promptly forgot the fact that this means that color calibration isn’t active either, and then gotten confused once I wanted to tweak a parameter.
And so I learned about a useful detail of the rectangle picker tool: if you set your parametric masking options by using the rectangle-picker, for the duration of the current editing sessions darktable will remember the rectangle you selected. That is, when later opening the module’s parametric mask controls again, and re-selecting the rectangle picker tool, it will automatically re-calculate the parametric mask’s parameters.
That’s nice.
For the scene itself, I wanted for it to say more strongly “dry season”, and highlight the blotches of colorful plants on the hill toward the tree.
