Great. Thanks for the suggestions. I absolutely love both those films. I even love Miami Vice and Collateral with their intentionally noisy digital looks
I’ve just looked on Greg Girard’s insta and realised I’ve got his City of Darkness book on the Kowloon Walled City. Thanks for the tip. I didn’t know about his other work. Fantastic
Just rewatched Collateral the other night (still incredible); can’t wait to revisit Miami Vice! And I’m envious you’ve got one of Greg’s books! Love the way he uses cyan and magenta casts in his night compositions—often looks otherworldly.
I got it partly because I lived in HK for a while after the walled city was razed and it was such a mesmerising idea. I’m going to look through the photos again today with your observations in mind. Thanks
Darktable 4.4.0
Love this shot.
The trees work
Like this effect
My attempt with darktable, inspired by the thread about Liam Wong:
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It turned out to be much more difficult than I first thought…
Yes, it’s tricky. Bright highlights and dark noisy shadows. I metered for the highlights but still. I had a second go after seeing other people’s efforts here.
After seeing that DT 4.6 was released, I had to come back to this photo to play around with the new RGB primaries. I just added one instance on top of the edit from earlier and simply randomly pulled around sliders to see what happens without much thinking… I think I like this version a bit better than the first one.
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Hallation effects are surprisingly convincing