Colourful springtime

Morning everyone!

Maybe you’d like to play this one? It’s a lake nearby with nice meadows of heather. These would usually only grow a bit higher up on the mountain meadows, but here they are right in the valley, giving a nice pink foreground.

Fun fact: these flowers have a woman’s name in English (Heather) and also in German (Erika).

Enjoy!

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Nice view!


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Morning, Michael!

Here is my interpretation of your splendid view.
I did not do much – mostly straightening the church tower
and a slight dehaze.


Developed in RT5.9-dev.

Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden

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Filmulator then into GIMP. Rotated 2.2 degrees. Local adjustments to brightness and contrast to try to bring out detail of the forest. Slight increase of saturation of the flowers and the sky.

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My version…

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Great shot! Here is my interpretation with brighter colors and warmer tones using darktable.

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Nice view!
Here my proposal with RT 5.9 dev:


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Beautiful scene! My play with dt 4.2.1


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True :grinning:. But the German name Erika is not derived from the female name (or vice versa) but from the latin genus name" erica", which means “heath”.

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Rawtherapee 5.8 + Gimp 2.10.30

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Edit: There was some issue with the color profile in export. I replaced the image with a screenshot from the dt preview, showing the colors I intended (less saturation and heather somewhat blueish).

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ART


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Wow, that’s a lot of colour!

Oh really? So I learned something today! :slight_smile: Thanks!

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Thanks everyone, great edits!

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My fun in GIMP

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Edited in Gimp.
Nothing special, only color/brightness tweaks here and there.

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And fun fact 2: There is another term for heather in German: “Heide”, which is also a firstname for women.

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In Swedish it’s Ljung.
A very popular family name, stemming from the old way of naming soldiers, hundreds of years ago.

Linguistically yours,
Claes in Lund, Sweden

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DT4.0.0

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