2018-07-20_10-23-51.10_DSC2161.NEF.pp3 (12.2 KB)
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@martin.scharnke - You really managed to control those highlights well in your filmic version! I would have expected to lose detail in those feathers but they really did render lovely.
I thought that this is an ideal image for using GIMP + G’MIC, due to requirement of local manipulations. Applied Freaky Details to bird (some percentage, not completely) and some percentage of Fuji Astia to the rest of the image and then curves for the global adjustments.
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Thank you @martin.scharnke for the beautiful picture. I went for a lighter and a little “dreamy” look.
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My attempt to darken the background and bring out the egret without blowing out the texture of the feathers.
As I become more familiar with darktable I would have liked to tone down the highlights on the log, in the background, and on of the foliage in the water.
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You’re so cute, my little egret.
Your initial processing is way superior to second variation. Here is my quick processing
Didn’t use filmic, will refrain from using it until I understand code. Phase one, in darktable reduce EV in blown out areas, increase details and contrast to recover from EV reduction. Highlights reconstruction since purple started creeping in. 2018-07-20_10-23-51.10_DSC2161.NEF.xmp (3.8 KB)
Export, open in GIMP, resize and use GMI’C. In new layer denoise, from original dynamic range increase to new layer. Picture above is denoised is set to luma lighten only (top layer to bring light to background), dynamic range (middle) is set to soft light and original is normal.
Fiddling with layers may produce result like this one
But that one is good only for social networks.
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@martin.scharnke really a nice shot!
Since you tried DT’s filmic module on it, I will post an edit based on a similar filmic module I am developing for PhotoFlow. As the code is not committed yet, I cannot provide a .pfi file for now, but I will update the post as soon as my edits can be reproduced.
PhF’s filmic module is very much inspired by Blender’s filmic OCIO config, and uses a very similar tone mapping function. This is what I could quickly achieve, with some local contrast preservation on top of the filmic tone-mapping:
The same tone mapping curve can also be used to enhance the contrast without rising the shadows:
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Also going dreamy and colorific with RT-5.5 and GIMP-2.10. Feathering was used, and the twigs healed away.
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\LARGE😂
Wow … thanks to so many of you who have produced such great edits. I’m particularly grateful to seeing the steps you have taken. With the exception of some masking by shape, and some HighPass, I have not used masking much at all. Looks like I have plenty of avenues for practice!
Parametric masking is a game changer! Definitely start looking in to it!
The start was a very nice photograph. The bird sharp and separated from the background, just two tiny overexposed areas on it.
Summary of the edits I made:
- I made the white balance much warmer, the original from the camera was too cold for my taste
- Some denoising (profile), but with focus on the bigger areas to denoise the background.
- Increased contrast on the bird’s neck and tail to bring out some details there
- Darkened the background a bit with filmic
- Highlights a little bit reduced
- Cutted out the borders to bring the bird more into the image’s focus
- The piece of wood in the background a bit darkened
- Highlighted the eye a bit
2018-07-20_10-23-51.10_DSC2161.NEF.xmp (20.1 KB)
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My take with RawTherapee.
Many of you went for darker renditions, but I like it better colorful.
Usually I am a lurker … still I enjoy posting time to time 
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Minimal processing using PhotoFlow by itself with its filmic (OCIO) and color correction modules. Remember to change the path in the PFI: 2018-07-20_10-23-51.10_DSC2161.pfi (23.0 KB).
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PS I am using the 20190210_2203 build; get it here: Release Continuous build · aferrero2707/PhotoFlow · GitHub.
Zoom 100% and enjoy!
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What a nice result with only “minimal processing”. Looks like I’ll have to become PhotoFlow proficient.
Thanks!