Hello, high contrast scene from a sunny street in the south of France. I find it hard to edit, a part of the wall is raw clipped (top left), and i get very different results depending on the tools i use, and none are completely satisfactory. I try to let the wall bright, else i get a flat non-sunny/non-realistic feel, but at the same time it feels clipped. Wanted to see what u can do! Thanks and have a nice day!
I like this kind of challenge
This is an edit using sigmoid, tone EQ (2 instances), segmentation based HLR, and diffuse and sharpen. edit: Forgot to say, I’m using the brand new DT 4.2.
I like playing sigmoid and tone eq against each other, pushing the contrast in sigmoid until the local contrast and saturation is right, then using tone EQ to bring the overall contrast back down. Not always in that order. This isn’t necessarily the best way to do it! 20220910-00489.arw.xmp (12.8 KB)
This is my attempt. The main adjustments I did were the exposure and then I went to filmic and used auto levels. I then applied local contrast and shadow highlights before activating and using the tone equalizer module to further tweak the image by darken the brightest part of the building and lifting the dark shadows. I was happy with the result and hope it translates when posted here. Other modules such a sharpening with diffuse or sharpen module, basic colorfullness preset from the color balance module, denoise profiled, and lens correction were also used.
EDIT: Note it was my artistic choice how much to brighten the shadows and we may all have different views on this.
Tricky one! I was tempted to apply perspective correction, but decided that the distortion adds to the image. In GIMP local adjustments to contrast and brightness.
Beautiful photo!
Achieving natural color degradation towards white and black is tricky in digital.
Personally I never mess with natural value relations in the picture. If it’s high contrast - so be it.
