High contrasts in a man made wilderness

[Popanz (Uli)]

Have fun and show me how you are treating these contrasts:

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Here is the RAW:
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[ggbutcher (Glenn Butcher)]

Nice composition, and you kept the full dynamic range in the sensor’s resolution. That however, put the shadows in the well, so to speak.

I get a lot of that in my captures, for extreme cases I do a two-part tone curve: 1) loggamma, lifts the shadows out of that well into the range shape-able by 2) a control point curve:

Color contrast is also a thing; I injected some HSV saturation damage early in the toolchain to do that. Kinda takes it out of the realm of realism, though.

[Jean-Marc_Digne (jmdigne)]

darktable 4.6.1

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[Popanz (Uli)]

@ggbutcher

That however, put the shadows in the well, so to speak.

Well it’s quite natural in live that on a sunny day you hardly see what lies in the deep shadow of a bush or whatever. I think one of the biggest errors on such a theme is, to try to make literally everthing visable. That usually leads to a flat and boring pic. The question is how far do one rise the shadows.

[dqpcoxeas]

My version…

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[ggbutcher (Glenn Butcher)]

Indeed. Most scenes provide two or more gallons of range, and most sensors can only accommodate one gallon, so to speak…

My tone tools are simple, global. I sometimes wish I had some of the local tools available in dt, but I’ve grown too lazy to figure them out and code them…

[PD1 (PD)]

My version. Give it a nice idyllic and hazy look of early morning sun

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[age]

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[iarga]

Thank you for the play. Edit with ART, GIMP and G’MIC:

[Popanz (Uli)]

@PD1

My version. Give it a nice idyllic and hazy look of early morning sun

Taking up your idea. That’s the way I would do it:

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[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

It is a beautiful scene, so I didn’t want to do anything drastic. dt 4.6.1

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[josemar127]

gimp 2.10.30

[Sunhillow (Hansgeorg Zauner)]

Nice play, not so easy!
Had to cheat a little to get a somewhat blueish sky …

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[priort (Todd Prior)]

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[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

A quick go, but I didn’t manage to get the yellow glow like the original post.
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[AdamFromCanada (Adam Severeid)]

Here’s my shot…apparently I didn’t want to see a well lit, sunshine and morning dew image…
Edited in DT 4.2, leaned heavily on the contrast equalizer and graduated density filter.
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[Thomas_Do (Thomas)]

“Natural” and somewhat hazy look.

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[Zbyma72age]

My - fun in GIMP
Original jpeg file GIMP Quality 90 => 10.6 MB

and
Saving as jpegli => Quality 50 => 3,.08 MB (XL Converter)

[Thierry007]

Hello with Art 1.21.2

[arctic (Andrea)]

Here is my rendition, using darktable and my own image formation code based on a film simulation. I added in the simulation some preflashing of the paper to try to contain a bit the highlights on my high-contrast virtual paper.