Moroccan Local in B&W

Mathul · May 28, 2025, 1:48pm

Trying to edit this pic in B&W but can’t seem to make the subject stand out much from the background. Would love to see your versions! MAT01332.ARW (24.0 MB)

Kurt · May 28, 2025, 2:36pm

MAT01332.jpg.out.pp3 (15.4 KB)

Jean-Marc_Digne · May 28, 2025, 2:54pm

darktable 5.0.1

MAT01332_07.ARW.xmp (14.5 KB)

AtaraxicShrug · May 28, 2025, 3:09pm

Welcome @Mathul ! If you are using darktable (and maybe RawTherapee? I dont know), make sure to avail yourself of the parametric masking features. They can really help with seperation.

There are a lot of stylistic ways you can go with this photo which makes for great fun (for us at least!) Thanks!

MAT01332.ARW.xmp (21.0 KB)

Mathul · May 28, 2025, 4:41pm

Hiya, I’m using darktable, this is what I’ve got using a hell of a lot of all kinds of masks - tried to lighten the background to increase separation in the end. Trying to start a B&W series from my travels so may be posting more pics to see how I could’ve edited things differently / better. Always keen to improve…
MAT01333_01.ARW.xmp (27.9 KB)

PS - this is a slightly different pic which I think I eventually decided I preferred

kofa · May 28, 2025, 4:47pm

A simple edit in darktable (but using the in-progress agx tone mapper):

MAT01332.ARW.xmp (12.1 KB)

PD1 · May 28, 2025, 4:49pm

@mathul you need to assign the raw file to creative commons for people to “legally” modify/edit the file. Something like this
This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

kofa · May 28, 2025, 4:56pm

Or with filmic
MAT01332_02.ARW.xmp (13.0 KB)

lylejk · May 28, 2025, 5:05pm

Dup>Exclusion setting top layer. Made a new layer of the visable and set it to lighten and adjusted the Exclusion layer to tasted. Also, did some selective enhancements as well.

PD1 · May 28, 2025, 5:08pm

My try with Agx and bloom

Morocco - MAT01332.ARW.xmp (10.4 KB)

Roberto_Vacchi · May 28, 2025, 5:15pm

With ART 1.25.4
MAT01332.ARW.arp (62.6 KB)

Greetings. Roberto

lylejk · May 28, 2025, 5:25pm

How about an engraved version as well.

Terry · May 28, 2025, 6:28pm

I wanted to have a wash of color on the man. My masking is a little bit dodgy. BTW, the man in the image isn’t named Khaled by any chance. He looks very much like my guide when I travelled in Morocco last year. A destination I would recommend to any photographer. And for lovers of beer try Cassablanca Lager. I nice drop.
MAT01332.ARW.xmp (17.6 KB)