I was out with my photography club on Tuesday evening, to take some sunset shots of the Forth Bridge.
Can’t say I was particularly inspired, mainly due to bad lighting, and feeling rushed by the other club members to hurry up! However here is a raw file which you may find fun to play with:
added 1.5 EV exposure compensation in DT and exported as floating point linear IMG_3246.CR2.xmp (16.6 KB)
Dynamic range compression in RT IMG_3246rta.pp3 (10.9 KB)
final adjustment IMG_3246rtb.pp3 (11.1 KB)
Nice photo @Brian_Innes. More than the color, I found structures in this photo very interesting. I therefore decided to go for a BW version. Used RawTherapee dev 5.4-409-g99caa76f7 to get the following. IMG_3246BW-1.jpg.out.pp3 (11.9 KB)
Edit: Since click to enlarge is not working, please open the photo in a new tab by right clicking on the image and see the enlarged version.
Lots of interesting takes on my picture Photographically I still don’t think it’s a particularly great image I took, but certainly looks like everyone is having fun with it :-). Might have another go at reprocessing my own version.
Thought I’d try a classic wide angle shot with interesting foreground, usually taken low down keeping sunset feel. Crunched up histogram in RT and adjusted a bit then cie. I like to see post reduction sharpening live so switched to fotoxx to do that and added a diagonal brightness ramp running off blue sky and tiny touch up with a curve to boost contrast up to mid range and reduce past that undoing the ramp a bit.
Left background the same - I hope. Gimp. Duplicate to another layer, Gradient layer to brighten rocks. Adjusted the gradient with levels. Gmic local contrast, Layer mask and painted the rocks to show.
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, I mean high fives for all good processing monkeys out there =)
in the mojave desert)
I had a brief go at it but couldn’t come up with a good result. 
Photographically I still don’t think it’s a particularly great image I took, but certainly looks like everyone is having fun with it :-). Might have another go at reprocessing my own version.
