High contrast B&W

foto · May 12, 2022, 4:11pm

Here’s the raw:

Attribution-NonCommercial: CC BY-NC

Here are my 2 takes:

Darktable:

and ART

Both have been further processed for resize & sharpening with:

convert $infile -resize 1500x1500 -sharpen 0x2.5 "$outfile"-s0-25.jpg

The reason for the high sigma is the b&w high contrast.

Thanks

dqpcoxeas · May 13, 2022, 7:49am

My version…

Darktable 3.9.0~git1478.ae5b7bd9-1

Soupy · June 27, 2022, 12:23pm

Not exactly what you were asking for, but I had fun making this dog a 1920’s movie star.

XavAL · June 27, 2022, 4:46pm

RT 5.8dev commit f86a45528

And then playing a bit with RGB curves:
dogs-vancouver-20151115-0131.jpg.out.pp3 (14.3 KB)

age · June 27, 2022, 7:08pm

arturoisilvia · June 30, 2022, 11:01am

You may be interested in this:

One suggestion: since you have cut off (photographically speaking) the dog’s foot, I would suggest a square format.

foto · June 30, 2022, 3:04pm

Interesting video. The purpose wasn’t the “freaky details” but the high contrast, but that’s a good idea to explore.
I was debating the square cropping head/chest vs the 3:2.

Thanks

arctic · July 31, 2022, 9:10pm

My take with darktable, with sprinkled film grain on top.

Zbyma72age · August 9, 2022, 6:35pm

My take with GIMP