How to light up the face

gaaned92 · February 4, 2020, 10:09pm

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anon41087856 · February 5, 2020, 8:15pm

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darktable 3.1

afre · February 5, 2020, 8:25pm

The opposite is true for this bright young lad.

spidermonkey · February 6, 2020, 7:15am

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srgmro · February 6, 2020, 12:08pm

I had a careful look at your parameters. So I understand that you first applied a zone mask and within this mask you refine the selection with Delta mask. I am right ?
Thanks to all for your participation.

shreedhar · February 6, 2020, 7:17pm

GIMP 2.10.12. Did not brighten the face too much so as to keep a realistic perspective. Basically used the curve tool and the Screen blend mode on the face. Increased the contrast and sharpened a bit. Should have removed the CA that is present around the head of the statue though…

clennep · February 6, 2020, 7:26pm

RT5.7
evenquickdirty: Lens correction, sharpening , Lab Adjustments, Graduated Filter

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spidermonkey · February 6, 2020, 11:52pm

@srgmro Yes that’s what I did.

The order I find works for me is:

Click on delta mask (within colour adjustment tool)
Click on show mask
Click on point in picture to select the object and see what parts of the picture it selects.
Adjust the range setting to select more or less of the image.(The HSL tools also adjust the range of what gets selected in the mask)
Often that’s all that’s needed to select what you want but if you may also want to restrict the changes to a specific area using the area tool as well. Feathering is often a good idea to avoid abrupt changes.
Make the adjustments to your selected area ie slope, gamma, hue, saturation etc

Hope this is what you were asking. It’s just what I do, but I am sure there may be better ways…

srgmro · February 7, 2020, 5:24am

@spidermonkey, thanks it helps me in understanding how masks work.

spidermonkey · February 7, 2020, 6:00am

You are welcome. Glad that I can be of help.

wiegemalt · February 8, 2020, 5:27am

Thanks for this PlayRaw. It is a very nice example for the use of masks. I did my variant with darktable 3.0

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Jean-Marc_Digne · February 8, 2020, 10:27am

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My work using Darktable 3.0 and exposition mask. Thanks for sharing

jllailes · February 9, 2020, 11:54pm

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sls141 · February 10, 2020, 3:11am

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Finished by stretching the layer in Gimp and overlaying the bigger head. Am I the only one who was annoyed at the disproportion of the head?

srgmro · February 12, 2020, 10:59am

@sls141 Perhaps could you have a look there:

Kalts · February 12, 2020, 12:10pm

Thank you for posting the link, Serge.
This photo conveys something incredible for me, touches my heart deeply.

afre · February 14, 2020, 6:20am

@jllailes Artifacts the shadows. @agriggio E.g.,

agriggio · February 14, 2020, 7:22am

thanks for reporting! Should be fixed now.

afre · February 14, 2020, 7:38am

Same workflow as

but with different parameters. And yes, I have been a little tired of writing each step lately. Briefly, RT minimal with capture sharpening and corner boost + G'MIC custom magic.

In hindsight, I should have made it brighter. Over overcast now. If I were less lazy, I would have removed the object floating in the middle of the right edge (edit and of course I would have done something about the bright young lad).

Zoom and enjoy!

afre · February 15, 2020, 7:32am

Brighter version.

I enjoy photos like this because there is so much going on. Not only is there the bright young lad that I mentioned twice but there is a person peeking behind a pillar. What’s his story? Is he a spy, stalker or enjoying a break? Wait, he is looking right at you!