New Landscape-focused Darktable Channel

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Fantastic videos on Landscape editing on darktable.

I’ve subscribed to your channel, and I’m looking forward to seeing more videos :slight_smile:

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I’ve done a few videos for Darktable my self, although it’s een a while since my last one. Anyway great videos and I have already linked to your channel on my site. Good job on all of the ones I’ve watched so far.

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Much obliged, thanks! :+1:

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Nice. Just saw the latest one up. Thanks for taking up the challenge of a dull weather day

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No problem. It was a typically interesting Scottish May morning. I climbed to the top in cold dry weather, froze in a blizzard on the top, and then got sunburn on the way down!

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Lol. I’ve done similar walk up Ben A’an with the bonus of a couple of lads at the peak downing lagers and blasting out Oasis in the snow

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Tony, yes you can improve flat lighting landscaped with darktable. I often do. The masking in dt is very powerful so I would recommend studying drawn and parametric masks. You will need to put in some effort so you will probably not find a quick fix recipe.

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I have been following and commenting on your productions.
They are very polished and well produced with a nice pace.
Both experienced and beginners will benefit from them so many thanks.

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Fun that the video was of Suilven as we just got back from Assynt and had a view of the mountain from where we stayed. Not unusual. You can see it almost everywhere

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Thanks Berny, lots of good feedback :slight_smile:

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Ah, the rarely-seen Greater Spotted Mountain Ned!

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You mention in - the very interesting! - video #14 your contrast equalizer settings for “clarity” and “texture” and that you covered them in one of the other videos. Could you maybe hint me to the one where you explain how these two presets work? At some point I’ll probably watch all the videos :sweat_smile:
I also found it interesting that you used the contrast equalizer to find the dirt-spots. Very good to know :slight_smile:

edit: Found it! It is actually in video #1 at around 22:15

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Might have come out of this and there are a couple of other suggestions…

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Hi, I just watched the first two videos. Really great! Looking forward to watch the rest of the videos. :+1:

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I actually just played around with a couple of modules to see what happened :smile:

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Cool videos! Thank you for making and sharing them. I especially like your vocal comments on what you want to achieve accompanying the editing steps.

Is there a reason why you use standard histogram and not waveform histogram and vectorscope?

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Thanks.

I mainly use the histogram because I was a long time Lightroom user and it just makes the most sense to me. I try to base my processing on what the image looks like more than what a graph tells me anyway :slight_smile:

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Ya I think that’s what the waveform offers over the histogram. It shows the channel distribution across the image and can even represent small changes as you introduce them with local edits. So it helps you to visualize an image in a way the histogram doesn’t. For me I tried a few times to use it and then it just stuck and now I never use the traditional histogram… funny how you can get accustomed to certain visual cues such that a change can be hard to introduce

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Thanks for the videos, it is always good to see how someone else uses darktable to process images. I especially liked how you use the contrast equalizer for clarity and texture.

Still a few videos to go before I’ve watched them all. Keep up the good work!

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Thanks @TheAegis just watched your video " Darktable 4.8 Workflow for Lightroom Users - Landscape Processing #16". This was very helpful for a longtime LR user. Video is of great quality and liked it very much. Will spend time over the next days to watch more. Great.

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