How would you do it differently

[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

Welcome to the forum. This was a fairly simple image to edit. I used the sigmoid module instead of filmic for the tone mapping. I applied shadow and highlights module masked to the sky and the trees in the distance to lift the shadows a bit and to help with the clouds. I am using V4.7 so I used the new color equalizer to bring up the blues to be similar to your original posted JPG.

I didn’t like the bench in the foreground so just for fun I used the retouch module to remove the offending item. I also used the retouch module to get rid of the spot in the sky that may be from a dirty image sensor or a dirty filter on the lens. I had to crop the image as well because your lens hood encroaches on the corners. You might want to consider getting a different hood.

I don’t feel my edit is any better than yours. I hope you enjoy darktable and the forum.

_6I_8267.CR3.xmp (18.6 KB)

[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

That is an excellent image, so I didn’t do much to it at all. dt 4.6.1

_6I_8267.CR3.xmp (7.1 KB)

[priort (Todd Prior)]

_6I_8267.CR3.xmp (17.4 KB)

I didn’t come up with a great edit but given this image as a starting point I thought the real star is the sky. The vantage point sort of messes with the composition of the landscape and the river so I did a pretty large crop…

[sherebiahtishbi (Sherebyah Tisbi)]

How would you do it differently

Welcome to the forum. This was a fairly simple image to edit. I used the sigmoid module instead of filmic for the tone mapping. I applied shadow and highlights module masked to the sky and the trees in the distance to lift the shadows a bit and to help with the clouds. I am using V4.7 so I used the new color equalizer to bring up the blues to be similar to your original posted JPG. I didn’t like the bench in the foreground so just for fun I used the retouch module to remove the offending item. …

Thanks I didn’t notice that smudge on the lens but now I see that!

[martin.scharnke]

_6I_8267.CR3.xmp (7.0 KB)

PS noticed other replies since I first loaded this to edit, but before actually posting a reply … mine is a fairly pedestrian attempt by comparison. A fun image to play with, however. Thanks!

[Popanz (Uli)]

I have two edits to offer:

_6I_8267_01.CR3.xmp (19,7 KB)

_6I_8267.CR3.xmp (18,8 KB)

[kofa (István Kovács)]

A very basic rendering from me. Thanks for sharing!
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[david]

Thanks for the play with this photograph.
GIMP. I too removed the bench. Other than that only slight changes. Increased mid-range contrast to emphasise the structure in the field and the reflections in the water.

[sherebiahtishbi (Sherebyah Tisbi)]

How would you do it differently

[_6I_8267] _6I_8267.CR3.xmp (7.0 KB) PS noticed other replies since I first loaded this to edit, but before actually posting a reply … mine is a fairly pedestrian attempt by comparison. A fun image to play with, however. Thanks!

love the brightness, I would saturate it a it though!

[sherebiahtishbi (Sherebyah Tisbi)]

How would you do it differently

I have two edits to offer: [_6I_8267_01] _6I_8267_01.CR3.xmp (19,7 KB) [_6I_8267] _6I_8267.CR3.xmp (18,8 KB)

This could be style in its own however the grass looks dead giving the feeling of winter while trees are green suggesting summer!

[Thomas_Do (Thomas)]

I like the original edit of @sherebiahtishbi. Difficult to do it differently.

My try.

[sherebiahtishbi (Sherebyah Tisbi)]

How would you do it differently

I like the original edit of @sherebiahtishbi. Difficult to do it differently. My try. [_6I_8267]

Thanks. Your edit looks great too especially I liked darkened foreground bushes to make user drawn more toward the serene water & sky!

[AD4K]

Very interesting photo, somehow very nostalgic.

I tried to reflect that nostalgic feeling.

Used Saulala. Development string:
Saulala[706, 3.0, 1.64, 1.63, 1.0, 1.0, 0.45, 0.95, 1, 3, 0, 0, 0]

[sherebiahtishbi (Sherebyah Tisbi)]

How would you do it differently

Very interesting photo, somehow very nostalgic. I tried to reflect that nostalgic feeling. Used Saulala. Development string: Saulala[706, 3.0, 1.64, 1.63, 1.0, 1.0, 0.45, 0.95, 1, 3, 0, 0, 0] [_6I_8267_Sol_240615]

That’s interesting!

[commutergraphics]

_6I_8267.CR3.xmp (15.2 KB)

this one has more extreme colour grading than I normally do

[priort (Todd Prior)]

Your monitor must be pretty bright?? On my screen the tree line and much of the upper sky are really crushed…or is that by design??

[commutergraphics]

the jpeg is much darker than my edit, they often are, I did darken blues and greens, just tried a png, it seems a hair lighter in the trees

[priort (Todd Prior)]

For me its extreme and I loaded your xmp and its dark…at least for me… It would be interesting for others to comment… so I am not suggesting that I am by any means the gold standard and I am not sure how to show what I see vs what you might see… Is your monitor calibrated??

Just in case this shows it…

Your edit on my screen as a screen shot…

You are using 0.883 for exposure

Using the autopicker which I make a lot of use of… for the whole image set at 50%
It calculates 1.645 EV

THis is often my first look at an exposure for basic images but it will be impacted by the bright sky so I often take the sky out of the selection

Selecting only the fore ground you get around 2.2 EV

Which seems a bit more in the ballpark for overall exposure but now would require some tonal correction for shadows and highlights…

Like I said it just looks extremely dark and its not your export I don’t think as the xmp you provided give me a really dark image…

Maybe others will say my monitor must be too dark …

[commutergraphics]

I don’t know, I don’t think I’ve even used the menu on this monitor before, so pretty much factory settings, it’s not calibrated, I’m not sure I can even adjust the brightness, it’s greyed out, I have reduced 8ev by nearly a stop in the tone equalizer, and more of a cut to shadows than I normally do in colour balance

[age]

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