One of if not my best Photograph.

afre · November 23, 2019, 8:02pm

@blj Thanks for sharing. It is a fairly good scene and capture. With a few more considerations, like @paperdigits’ suggestion, future shots have the potential to be showcase material.

Plus, if you visit the site again, maybe record the sounds. I could imagine them but having the real thing while viewing the image would be a neat experience.

blj · November 23, 2019, 8:18pm

@afre thanks much appreciated. Sounds would be neat even maybe a tiny video. Fortunately I only live about an hour away from this place. Can’t revisit till spring however due to the trails being shut down for safety only ice hikers/climbers are allowed there right now. One day I should learn that too

gadolf · November 24, 2019, 2:34am

Thanks for sharing your best!

I tried to follow your PS edit mood;
I used a tone curve with multiply blending mode, and moved it before filmic rgb;
I used two dehaze instances: a stronger one for the foreground and a lighter one for the background. I wanted to preserve the waterfall mist and bring volume.

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Sunhillow · November 24, 2019, 3:24pm

Nice little waterfall! Thanks for sharing it!

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sovereign · November 25, 2019, 6:37pm

RT 5.7

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Jean-Marc_Digne · November 26, 2019, 9:21am

DT 2.6.2

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CriticalConundrum · November 26, 2019, 4:04pm

Thanks for sharing, it is a nice photo. Edited in Rawtherapee.

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paulmiller · November 26, 2019, 4:40pm

Photoflow:

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DavidOliver · November 27, 2019, 8:15pm

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Edit: second attempt, with (previously made worse by me) chromatic aberration of waterfall dealt with and some other mood-setting changes made.

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elGordo · November 30, 2019, 1:53am

Winner winner chicken dinner on the crop.

blj · November 30, 2019, 2:18am

Agreed I love seeing the different crops and interpretations people come up with.

PeteB · November 30, 2019, 5:28am

Out of the choices available, this appeals to me the most.

ggbutcher · November 30, 2019, 3:26pm

In my rather myopic experience, I’ve come to enjoy exploring the thousands of compositions available in a single image capture. Some would say I need to get better at composing at the scene. Whatever…

I wanted to work this image, but I’ve not been in a place to get a download, dodgy internets. Now that I can, though, don’t think I could offer anything better 'specially with the chicken dinner winner…

blj · December 1, 2019, 1:07pm

I agree. Personally I re edit photographs over and over. I find it fun to explore them. You should give the edit a go anyway if you have time never know maybe you will win a turkey dinner

afre · December 3, 2019, 5:49am

Simple workflow. Using a new way to brighten while maintaining contrast, denoted by test.

PhotoFlow demosaicing (blend, RCD), lens correction (vignette, CA), Rec2020 linear float
gmic sharpen (texture), brighten-contrast (test), sharpen (FFT), resize

Zoom 100% and enjoy.

Edit Here is v2. In v1, I used my sharpen(edge) command, which caused artifacts where the trees meet the sky and the lack of textures in the highlights. Remedied .

FBulovic · December 6, 2019, 5:17am

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Done in dev version of darktable, so 3.0 RC2 + some, and additional GIMP/GMIC fiddling

Oh, I exported full size, let me resize it in GIMP, when I am already there why not …

josemar127 · January 18, 2020, 3:00am

Darktable 3.0.0

clennep · January 18, 2020, 4:26pm

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Rick · January 18, 2020, 5:35pm

This was a fantastic capture, and thanks so much for sharing it with us! I agree that some judicious use of a polarizer might have come in handy to remove some glare from those rocks and the stream.

Full disclosure: I tried to do this only using FOSS software, but in the end couldn’t resist exporting to Nik Color Efex Pro 2 to selectively bring out some colors and tones. Yes, it’s possible to do those things in GIMP alone, but this has just been my own workflow for my landscape shots. As it is, I imported the RAW file in RawTherapee, cropped to my liking and exported to GIMP, where I further did some contrast adjustments. I exported to Nik CEP2 from there where I did the bulk of the heavy lifting.

Thanks again for making this available to us. I’m longing to get out with my camera again once this weather breaks.

Rick · January 18, 2020, 5:36pm

I love the colors you got with this one. Nice work.