Local trainstation

[Mike_Bing]

I didn’t really plan to much on this shot which is the local small train station of the town of Alkmaar. I ended up liking it, but not the framing or the road sign which was sitting uncomfortably in the way of a pleasing composition. After I converted the raw with DT, I addressed those issues with Gimp. In the end, I also decided on a drawing like conversion with GMIC, like it or not

So: do your best (or worst for that matter)

KMGP7062-Alkmaar-85mm-ISO200.PEF (45.1 MB)

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[dqpcoxeas]

My version…

KMGP7062-Alkmaar-85mm-ISO200.PEF.xmp (14.3 KB)

[DeepSchwartz]

Nice to see another Pentaxian on this forum! As a K-5 snapper it’s nice to play with a K-1 raw to get a feel for the extra detail.

This was a fun shot to edit. I did a b&w, selective color, dimension tweaks, and a lot of spot removal in Darktable, then exported to Gimp and blended in “freaky details” G’Mic treatment on the tree trunk, and a bunch of clone work. fun stuff.