Fat-bottom mossy Ents

Went out shooting in this normally swampy area that had dried out quite a bit despite the recent rain. Been coming here since I was a kid and have always been captivated by the lush moss. Reminds me of Princess Mononoke for some reason.

Nikon D3500 / Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.8g

CWW_4210.NEF (24.7 MB)

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Ugh … forgot the Play Raw tag, guess it’s too late to add now. Oh well - anyone else’s interpretations are welcome :slight_smile:

I accepted this as a license and invitation to edit the image, but could you please add a license to make others comfortable to edit the image. I have changed the category to Play Raw since that is what you intended.

Here is my DT 5.7 edit. I used the new contrast and texture module to recover the highlights and add some global contrast.
DT 5.7 CWW_4210.NEF.xmp (13.7 KB)

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Yes, thank you! I forgot that typically auto-adds with the Play Raw tag. Thanks for changing it for me.

File in OP is licensed Creative Commons, By-Attribution, Share-Alike.

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My take…

Not super happy with it… Not sure why.
Suggestions and advice to improve are welcome.

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Ooo, something very elvish about this one

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Got carried away a bit too much by Uli´s edit. Though here is a Darktable-Spektrafilm interpretation of it.


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A re-do with different (dare I say improved?) white balance. I admit that my first one is moodier.


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Princess Mononoke you say?


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(I accidentally saved with flattened layers oops. Not too hard to redo. Colour to make them blue, multiply for shadow, penumbra A for green tint, normal for lighter glow))

normal daytime edit: Probably overdone but I wanted to make that foreground green stand out


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The daytime edit is indeed a bit over the top for me, but the dark one goes well, and I had to laugh about this shiny little people.

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I love the Orton effect from @Popanz, but remained within RawTherapee


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omg this made my day :laughing:

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RT and GIMP


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