I have not one, but four different raw files for you today! (I asked if it was okay to post more than one. There’s 8 in this set, but I’ll only share four here.)
These were taken on April 30th this year when I took an early evening walk around the loop. I take hundreds of photos every week and started releasing sets of NEFs to my photography followers so they could have something to follow along with the darktable and GIMP walkthroughs I make for them. I’ll try not to fill this forum with my own stuff, so if I’m ever posting too much just tell me to calm down. I get overly excited about photography is all.
All shot with a Nikon D3000 and an 18-55mm kit lens. I tend to shoot underexposed, so have fun with all those heavy shadows!
And here are my edits, all done in darktable. I’m still getting used to the differences between darktable and Lightroom, but I’m enjoying it a lot more so far. Definitely open to critique, and if anyone sees stuff in the sidecars that could be optimized, please let me know!
I poured on the sharpness and wavelet local contrast to give the signs some some legibility and have a crispy feel. Also light geometry adjustment and crop.
RawTherapee-5.4
For me, Photoflow was a far more suitable programme for this image than RT.
Tried to give cinematic look inspired from Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies… Dark Knight Rises!
For this image I found RT 5.4 a perfect match, in the sense that I could easily get the look that I wanted. Which is - a shaft of light, colour and life making its way through overbearing iron structure and creeping darkness.