New pocket camera in my pocket (Panasonic Lumix LX100 II).
Prato della Valle, Padua, Italy.
20221227_0094.RW2 (19.4 MB)
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Darktable 4.2.
Have fun. Enter the carousel and go round.
Apart from that, thanks for the inspiration from this friendly community I recently discovered.
Forgot the license: it’s CC0 (practically almost like Public Domain).
Nice! You have quite of a personality!
I think you have missed the visual message here, though: there are even 3 carousels in this photo:
You probably would’t like to cut off anyone of the three layers with a crop.
You can also read the photo as a contrast “sacred/profane”, with Santa Giustina abbey in the background and a silly playground in the foreground… Both deserted.
Anyway, thanks for your feedback!
Luca
I agree with @Claes – this is a difficult one, with the backlighting, the haze and the relatively low contrast overall. It was a real balancing act to get a little depth into it and I’m not sure I did it justice. I cropped a little bit of sky off since it wasn’t part of the story. I didn’t have the nerve (nor skill!) to go any more detailed with masking than I did… 
Processed in ART 1.18.1, resized and exported in Affinity Photo.
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Here’s my go… (or at least the first one!)
Very nice image.
DT 4.2 with sigmoid
I really like your interpretation. @Claes and @123sg, I agree that it was a difficult shot, with some problems that are difficult to fix, first of all the suboptimal framing.
Thanks @all.
I didn’t actually expect to find it difficult, but the contrast surprised me a bit. Thanks for the background about the location too. Very nice to know! 
Oh, and I don’t know really know that I’d change the framing… I think it works well.
Hello, the last times that I visited Italy - regretfully too long ago - I always shot b&w, analogue. I guess it’s for that reason that my first idea with this photo was to make a b&w version. Somewhat dreamy. Done in ART.
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Edit. Hmm, the photo in ART looks different than the one posted above, see for example the statue on the top/roof of the churches, in ART it’s black, not here above… Recently upgraded to Xubuntu 22.04, perhaps the problem lies there.
Nice render, I like it. A little bit of halo around the persons, but not a big problem. Thanks.
Very nice! and similar to the apostel338’s one, with a different crop. One of my favorites so far.
A great image. Thanks for sharing.
My try in GIMP. I have made local adjustments to brightness and contrast in an attempt to make the “galloper” stand out from the background.
All black and white except the carrousel
For the frame (with carousel color) I had to move the colorize module up above the monochrome modules in the pipeline.
And for the blur, I was hoping that in the blur1 module, selecting the figure used in Monochrome1 would also select the parametric mask (I thought it was included). As it was not, I had to select by hand the parametric mask in blur1 to blur only the background.
(deepL)
For your consumption, here is a variation generated by DALL·E with the starting point of my original editing.
Clearly this is not a photograph, but definitely it highlights the basics of the original shot:
Thank to @all of you who contributed to this Play Raw, I learnt a lot from this and from your variations on my meager photo.
Respect.
