Now in love with colour

I’m a black and white shooter, who is starting to fall in love with colour. Once I wrapped my head around how Darktable worked, my brain just clicked into it. SO good (and SO free!!)

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That is one beautiful shot! Thanks for sharing :slight_smile: - keep 'em coming :-). I would also be curious as to what you did to this photo in dt.

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@beecham

Nice shot thanks for sharing…generally uploads of jpgs are not that large…

Some compression and downsampling to get them to 2Mb or less is the convention…

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A wonderful and minimalistic shot, thanks for sharing - looks so good :sunglasses:

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Nearly duo-chromo, b&w would do here to.
Me too is curious how y’ve done this one :slight_smile:

Keep them coming!

Ready for submission as Windows next wallpaper

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Beautiful photo. It definitely gives me desktop wallpaper vibes. Like it looks almost too vast and perfect.

Thanks for the love on the photo. I know a couple of people have asked ‘how’ I worked on the photo. It’s hard to go into, I suppose, because I did a few things:

  • Tweaked exposure and black point
  • Tweaked main tone equalizer until I was happy with the result.
  • Adding a tone equalizer drawn mask to the sky, to bring out some of the cloud detail.
  • Tweaked colour balance, removing some blue, so that the emphasis was more on the green
  • Dropped the saturation down, then added a little global vibrance
  • Added an exposure drawn mask gradient on the ground, so that it’s darker nearer the bottom, drawing the eye upwards to the centre of the screen.
  • Gentle vignette

I think that’s about it.

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