@pk5dark, nice. Any chance you can manage a less bright mountain that shows more detail? I haven’t tried darktable 3 and the tone equalizer yet and am looking forward to doing so!
dt filmic + colour balance + local contrast only:
running the extra mile on top of that with tone equalizer:
I’d like to check the sidecar but laying in bed with my phone. Shoud finally sleep. So tomorrow. But thanks for participating. I like your results somehow similar to mine aren’t they?
Thank you for the amazingly challenging photograph. Quite beautiful as well. This one really made me put the filmic videos to the test. Along with some color balance and a few other things I enjoy using.
darktable 3.0.0rc2: 20191001T162108.ORF.xmp (9.1 KB)
Middle of the night insomnia. Abstract take.
PhotoFlow
demosaicing (blend, RCD), lens correction (all), rotation, Rec2020 linear float
gmic
HLG, dehaze (broken), brighten-contrast (test), sharpen (FFT), crop, resize
Zoom 100% and enjoy!
I think it is interesting that few people here use masks.
I did not feel the need for any parametric or drawn masks. The Tone Equalizers guided mask did a great job allowing control over the different regions.
Yes, but @anon41087856 is the benchmark here ;-). Since I watched his video about filmic I’ve an idea what to do and I’m really impressed by the power of filmicRGB (and tone equalizer) now.
20191001T162108.ORF.xmp (9.6 KB)
I prefer your version as the areas in shadow are that bit darker and more believable/natural-looking to me. A lot of versions here have the path and trees in shadow very light and saturated which looks over-cooked to me when viewed as part of the scene as a whole, but I’d say you’ve just about avoided that. Mine may be too dark.
I enjoyed both of your entries.
Second test of new brighten-contrast method. Otherwise kept it simple.
PhotoFlow
demosaicing (blend, RCD), lens correction (all), rotate, Rec2020 linear float
gmic
soft light (inverse), smooth (texture), brighten-contrast (test), retinex (negate, soft light), sharpen (FFT), resize
Zoom 100% and enjoy.
Thanks for this challenging image! Here is another try with photoflow, partly based on @paulmiller and @gadolf versions:
20191001T162108-af.jpg.pfi (62.8 KB)I have tried to keep a natural look, mostly using exposure compensation, shadows/highlights and tone-mapping curve.
Do you have a sidecar file or can you describe how you did it?
All done in GIMP. I did a selection by colour for the sky and inverted the selection so that the sky was protected. I then used luminosity masks, one of which selected only the mountain. Followed this with sharpening using wavelet-decompose.