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GIMP. Removed the sensor spot (Healing Brush) and the twigs (Heal Selection). Luminosity masks to make local adjustments.
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Since it looked rather early, I kept the image quite dark, and tried to make it a bit colder.
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Also, a square-cropped version. I’m sorry about losing the mountains on the right, but the lake just felt empty there.
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Did a little extra experimenting with masking in this one. Exposure on the land and sky. Color of the water at the bottom.
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Just got DT 4.6 update for my ubuntu so giving it a spin.
I think it looks quite similar to @123sg 's version. Also like him I reused @TonyBarrett 's retouch module, with a minor addition of the twigs.
F/8 would’ve made the sensor dust spots less obvious.
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Thanks for the suggestion
I found it surprisingly tricky
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Just call Retouch!
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This interpretation looks credible without being boring, still not overdone. I really like the contrast between the snowy landing and the water. Great caption btw.
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Thanks a lot!
Thought I would see if I had learned anything at all about color manipulation from Boris’s @s7habo videos, so here is what I came up with.
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Interested in your opinions: which crop do you prefer?
Original: A
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B
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C
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Or do you have another recommendation?
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Personally I like the widest crop as I think it makes it more about the environment. Have plenty of other versions of this shot, including tighter, wider and portrait but I just haven’t had time to go through any more photos from this trip for a while
Out of these I like A, but I just scrolled up to review the vertical crop I used and that’s still my favourite.
I like your vertical a lot too, Dave. Tony’s comment about it being about the environment gave me a thought. I used freehand crop to take a little sky out and a little of the bottom of the picture out too. Then I added to fast local contrast, modified a little bit, to the land to darken it a little. I’m happiest with that because it keeps the entire horizon, but pulls the boats a little closer. I like the looks of this so much that even though I didn’t take the photo, I’d like to hang it on my wall.
Thanks for the feedback, and the photo!
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Yeah, it’s a shame you have to lose so much of the beautiful landscape to hold onto some balance in the vertical crop, but I think its a worthwhile tradeoff to get rid of the gate and chicken wire fence at the top of the ramp.
A few steps to the right might have helped get rid of it, but then you’d start to obscure the floating dock and cramp the boats a little too much.
I suppose painting the fence out wouldn’t be that difficult either if you had to, but I certainly didn’t feel like doing it lol.