Hi @goflydeep,
Nice — but a tricky one.
Here is one way to “develop” it:
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
Hi @goflydeep,
Nice — but a tricky one.
Here is one way to “develop” it:
Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden
Stunning picture! I think you did well with the edits shown here – I love the muted colours, IMO both have been graded with good taste. It will be interesting to see how others do
Regarding the details, in my opinion it sometimes makes even sense to blur parts of the image a little bit to give it a sense of depth and make the sharper parts pop out a bit more. I’ll experiment with this tomorrow on this image to show what I meant.
With Filmulator, it’s very easy to make the moon stand out reasonably while preserving the details in the landscape below.
Unfortunately, though, having the foreground so clearly shown actually makes it look rather mundane and boring to my eye, without much mystique.
Thanks - I did spend a considerable amount of time. I love that it looks artistic and I understand that’s what most photography is for - but I often struggle with replicating exactly what my eyes see. Unless I am shooting in broad daylight in sunny 16 conditions where the light is uniform and it’s easy to edit in a sense that I know the sky is blue and white balance is always at Daylight settings. So all I do is find a tone curve and even that often works well just on Auto settings.
I look forward to seeing your edits.
Good point. Do you think in that case my highlights, as in the sunlit hills in the background, sky and moon could be brighter in the image? To make them “stand out” as you suggest?
Hi,
This is my edit in DT. I list the steps here as it may help people new to filmic.
But mine is not my favourite edit here. There are numerous interpretations and it is hard to know what the original scene looked liked without being there.
Interesting Play, thanks for posting!
I used haze removal and a local spot with tone mapping here.
Thanks for the input. I like how the moon is so prominent in your version. The time stamp on the camera isn’t accurate but the photo was taken just 5 minutes or so before sunset. So the hills on the back which are also higher are still lit with red sunlight from the setting sun as is the tops of the hills on the left. Rest of the valley and lower hills are in the shadow. And the colors of twilight had begun to popup but I honestly can’t recall how vivid they were now.
The timestamp on the camera isn’t accurate, but the shot was taken just 5 minutes or so before sunset. As such, the hills in the far background (the higher ones on the right) were bathed in red sunlight as were the tops of the hills to the left. I do recall a twilight glow of red and orange starting to show in the sky but do not recall if it was very vivid or more muted.
The haze removal tool works very well for my underwater shots so I used it on your moon, but wanted to limit its effect to jut the moon. Not having any idea of the color I chose daylight white balance. However, the saturation or vibrance might need lifting in my edit. Maybe even the contrast could be lifted.
Very nice picture! Where was it taken?
This is my version using darktable 4.0.0
Northern California, East Bay Interior Valleys near Livermore if you are familiar with the area. The taller hills to the right seen in the image make the western border of the Central Valley