Horsetails at Dawn

…or Schachtelhalm im Abendlicht

In our garden there is an old sand pit in which a small “forest” of Horsetails grow in spring. In the evening sun they are beautifully lit so I set out with the 90 mm macro for some forest photography.

I already posted this photo before. When I first opened it in darktable, both AgX and Sigmoid were erroneously being applied and made for some very lush contrast.


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Have fun :slight_smile: ! Looking foward to your posts!

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I brightened the flowers in this shot by using an instance of tone curve after AgX and then the details threshold slider to mask for the in focus flowers while avoiding the out of focus background.
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Though the result looks simple, the editing process was much more complicated than I wanted it to me. lol

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If you put on chromed brass you can’t complain. :rofl:

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ART and GIMP-GMIC


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Too lazy for brass; how about a wider view. lol

Did try to break up the monotony by twisting one of the barbs. :slight_smile:

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Lovely!


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A further variation:

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ART with spektrafilm


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darktable with filmicRGB


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