I haven’t shared any shots of my morning walks for some time now. One of the main reasons being that when I step outside at the moment it is dark and when I come home close to 2 hours later it is still dark… There are some other reasons as well: Life and other projects get in the way and that results in a backlog on the photography front.
I spend a few hours today going through and quick editing some images I shot in the last 6 or 7 weeks to get an idea which ones I need to spend some more time on. I thought that this one was nice to share as a Play Raw.
Hope you have fun with it!
PS: Yeah, I know. I do need to pull this one into Krita to get rid of the leaves sticking in from the bottom
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I think the grass at the bottom of the picture helps to add depth to the scene.
Several attempts at this one! In the end I blended two exposures from Filmulator (0 and +1 EV) and then very minor tweaks with luminosity masks in GIMP.
Never tried this and the solution I came up with that seems to, when put in the time/effort, work is as follows (I’m assuming GIMP here):
select (R) a border strip with a certain fixed width,
copy that strip to a new layer,
move (M) layer with copied strip so it adds to original,
merge layer and original,
select (R) the boundary with some head/side room,
use filter → enhance → heal selection
do some cleaning up.
Repeat this for 2 (or 4) sides.
You will, as also seen in yours, end up with some repetitiveness and some unsharpness around the healed boundary, but that might be mitigated with some brush magic.
I used my GIMP plug-in - Uncrop side - a slight modification of the Resynthesize, Uncrop. It does not always work well and it is usually better to make successive small increases. For this photograph I made two increases of 3% on the left and two of 3% on the right and to my surprise it worked OK!
Great image I shot some similar ones in Oct on my way to work…amazing cloud formations almost every day with multiple colors of blue in and around them…this might be a great image to link to that discussion around detail in items like clouds…I should dig that up…I will have to review all the edits and see how people have edited and how the clouds have been handled…
Resynthesize based, that’s what I thought. One of the few tools I miss in Krita…
That seems to be at the core of Resynthesize: Small steps give better results (most of the time).
Step one: Don’t overexpose and blow your highlights. Something I see way to often in shots that have cloudy skies in them. Not having to “reconstruct” makes editing easier and the end-result nicer.
Agreed…I was just trying to remember which thread it was but there was a lot of discussion with AP in the middle about clouds not “supposed” to have detail and then lots of examples from artists etc…not trying in any way to refuel that one…just suggesting that your image would be another great example for people to demonstrate and share their interpretation of how the clouds should be processed given the raw material provided by your shot…
After the points discussed about the treatment of clouds I decided to revisit this photograph.
Rather than attempting to make changes to the clouds I decided to increase the saturation of the blue sky and it’s reflection (probably overdone!).
I made a selection by hue and then using my equal luminosity mask plug-in I was able to refine the selection in order to adjust the saturation.
