Landscape near Altaussee

[afre (Alan)]

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!

[betazoid (Anna)]

I think it is interesting that few people here use masks.

[blj (Bill)]

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.

[pk5dark (Christian Kanzian)]

@DavidOliver

Any chance you can manage a less bright mountain that shows more detail?

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)

[DavidOliver]

@pk5dark

Yes, but @aurelienpierre is the benchmark here ;-).

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.

[afre (Alan)]

I enjoyed both of your entries.

[yteaot]

DT 3 20191001T162108.ORF.xmp (7.0 KB)

[gadolf (Gustavo Adolfo)]

Thanks for sharing.

Photoflow:

20191001T162108.pfi (38.8 KB)

[afre (Alan)]

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.

[Carmelo_DrRaw]

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.

[age]

My try with Photoflow
20191001T162108.pfi (35.9 KB)

[sguyader (Sébastien Guyader)]

My take with ART:

20191001T162108.jpg.out.arp (9.1 KB)

Edit: resized to 1920x1280

[srgmro (Serge)]

20191001T162108.ORF.arp (49.8 KB)

My attempt with ART too.

[david]

I decided that the mountain is the star of the show, so I tried to enhance its detail.

[betazoid (Anna)]

Do you have a sidecar file or can you describe how you did it?

[david]

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.