Mama and ducklings

Kland · June 12, 2026, 4:16am

Just curious to see the directions you guys take with editing this.

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Here’s my attempt:
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mino · June 12, 2026, 5:06am

Cute shot!

Working the contrast with cbrgb and AgX; added warmth to the highlights with cbrgb for a summer evening look, darkened the greeny-yellow tones of the background with colour eq.

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Terry · June 12, 2026, 7:44am

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Jetze · June 12, 2026, 10:58am

Nice picture,

here’s my take on it…

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mino · June 12, 2026, 11:02am

I like your crop! This way the composition actually works out nicely with the leaves to the left and a bit more interesting then my crop.

Jetze · June 12, 2026, 11:48am

Glad you like it, I searched for leaving out parts of the image not contributing to the ducks and intuitively came up with this.

Thad_E_Ginathom · June 12, 2026, 11:59am

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I worked on it before looking at anybody else’s result.

postprocessor’s remorse

What I really wanted was something more like @Terry 's result. A bit more contrast and more green in the water

Silly number of module instances for such a simple picture! 3 instances of CB-RGB. And I accidentally used AgX. I currently being a sigmoid man, but Agx just looked nicer for this.

DT 5.5 nightly. Uses AI object masking. Can people with DT 5.4 see that as drawn masks?

Terry · June 12, 2026, 12:36pm

I don’t feel your mask translates backwards to 5.4.

also with my edit the contrast mainly came from Local Contrast module and the color from disabling color calibration and setting color temp in white balance module.

Popanz · June 12, 2026, 12:41pm

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Tim · June 12, 2026, 1:07pm

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gwbarn · June 12, 2026, 2:29pm

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Zbyma72age · June 12, 2026, 5:02pm

ART and GIMP 3.2

lightlover · June 12, 2026, 6:52pm

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age · June 12, 2026, 7:17pm

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tankist02 · June 12, 2026, 9:29pm

ART with Spektrafilm (Kodak Gold 200 on Endura Premier):

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lylejk · June 14, 2026, 3:55am

Cropped, cleaned, brightened, and sharpened selectively (and a few other things).

Fenny · June 14, 2026, 7:30am

what a lovely image. Here’s my take with DT nighly of this morning. I love that reflection.
No fancy things actually. Exposure, AgX, some exposure masking. Lifted the yellows a bit and downdialed the chroma after autopicking in color calibration.
further a bit fiddling with the shadows and highlights in CBRGB
my standard denoising with two instances of profiled denoise. wavelets and nlm auto