Cabin at the Swedish coast - and a spot I don't know how to remove

qmpel · December 7, 2023, 9:22am

Great capture I like the edits so far, well done. Here is an alternative, high key low contrast version…

RachoVolker · December 7, 2023, 10:24am

DT 4.0.0

david · December 7, 2023, 10:30am

My play in GIMP. The Healing Brush makes it fairly easy to remove the offending head, or as I did here, make a selection and use the Heal Selection tool.
I am sure most viewers would never notice the head, but once you have seen it, it is very difficult to “unsee”!

s7habo · December 7, 2023, 10:31am

The brightly lit white sand and white house tempted me to try a slightly overexposed, bright and minimalist version. The elements that contrast here are clear geometric lines of the house, fence and sea horizon against the sand, grass and clouds:

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dqpcoxeas · December 7, 2023, 2:35pm

My version…

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Popanz · December 7, 2023, 2:57pm

It is a beautiful picture, I’m more than just tempted to play with it further on.
Here a rather more extreme version:

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Sunhillow · December 7, 2023, 3:52pm

What a pleasant scene! Thanks for sharing!

It took a while before I recognized that this thing is a head … it is wearing sunglasses
RT 5.9 dev and GIMP Heal Selection to remove the head.

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seume · December 7, 2023, 7:34pm

Thanks to you all for the nice comments, good advices and beautiful image versions! The next days I will try it out (very busy …) - and I am fully convinced that I am now able to “remove the head” . After that I will post my version …

Thanks again …

Popanz · December 7, 2023, 10:28pm

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josemar127 · December 8, 2023, 2:23am

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Popanz · December 8, 2023, 7:43am

Have I already said, that I’m fascinated by this photography.
And have we talked about a monochrome version yet?

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elstoc · December 8, 2023, 7:47am

I wonder what version of darktable you’re using? The spot removal tool was deprecated a while ago because its functionality is duplicated in retouch

Roberto_Vacchi · December 8, 2023, 10:38am

With ART 1.21 and GIMP

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Greetings. Roberto

seume · December 8, 2023, 11:52am

You are of course right: I have still the deprecated name in mind. I am using darktable 4.4.2 on fedora workstaion 39 (loving it).

seume · December 8, 2023, 11:55am

Hi all, thanks to your advices it was quite easy to get “rid of the head”! Without having seen the post of @Popanz my idea was also to go for BW. See below.