We are moving to Pitlochry in Scotland shortly. I managed to get this shot while the overflow from Loch Faskally was open. The one thing I can’t seem to sort out is the small amount of blow-out in the plume of water.
My initial attempt is here - _CTW2403 | Pitlochry Dam | Yorkshire Exile | Flickr
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dt 3.4.0
Done some work on the blownout area (see steps 21 ff in history). Mainly highlight reconstruction, filmic, and colour reconstruction. Colour balance to set a spot light. Strangely enough the blown out area looks a lot nicer in darkroom than after exporting.
darkroom 100%:
_CTW2403.nef.xmp (19.7 KB)
By the way, the thumbnail of the flickr page will show up if you remove the www. from it.
Colour propagation does a nice job resconstructing the highlights when using RawTherapee. The rest is a balancing act. Especially when you want to lighten things up a bit and emphasize (restore?) the very few colours present in this shot.
This is a nice image when you use RawTherapee and want to play with the Wavelet levels tab…
Anyway: Thanks for sharing this one!
EDIT: Bit more detail in the water plume
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ART 1.8.2, used local edit to restore the blown out area in the water.
I’m accustomed to 24MP files from my camera, so I was quite surprised when I zoomed in on this 46MP on this one!
I like this image with slightly more subdued colors.
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I also did one in darktable:
This turns out to be a really nice image to edit 
Thanks for all your replies, I have learnt something from all of them.
Have a virtual dram from the local distillery for all your efforts.
