dreamy bloom at the lake

A shot from my aunts garden.

I was struggeling with this one to get it “right”. Heres a rendition with the experimental dt-spektrafilm:

260514_151540_DSC01583.ARW (23.9 MB)
260514_151540_DSC01583.ARW.xmp (13.8 KB)

Note: this .xmp requires an experimental build of dt including the spektrafilm module but please feel free to use what you like with this raw :slight_smile: . I just wasn’t able to surpass the spektrafilm result with 5.6.

This file is licensed Creative Commons, By-Attribution, Share-Alike.

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Reframed and colorised to my taste… :slight_smile:

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Regular darktable 5.6. Again, mostly AgX


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What an awesome picture!


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Such an inspiring image :slight_smile:

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RT and GIMP

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Dreamy you said, dreamy you get. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:


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I actually softened this landscape based on inspiration I once got from @lphilpot who taught this old dog a new trick that sometimes sharpness is not needed in every landscape.
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Love your crop. I wasn’t aware yet how well the lines of the branches at the top and of the lawn edge harmonized.

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Using the darktable 5.7.0+135 from the nightly build. A really nice shot and easily to handle.


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Second version using DoS Blooming.


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Another version with blooming and Color RGB for warm lights

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I tried to bloom the pink colour out with DorS, but that’s something I can’t usually get right with that module. Don’t know if it’s a limitation of me or the module though.
I’ve removed some local contrast in the greens, but I like the bright greens in other edits.


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I used a relatively small ellipse with a very large soft edge as a mask.

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Lots of bokeh already; decided to add more (via G’MIC’s Bokeh preset). Did a few other enhances and voila. :slight_smile:

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For a bonus, why not a seamless texture as well. :slight_smile:

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Small lightbulb moment; I managed to get a stronger pink bloom around the flowers with DorS.


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I’m not the only one scouting this direction :slight_smile:


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I took some liberties…

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