I shot this one 2 weeks ago, in het Mastbos. At first i really didn’t feel the image, suddenly today i thought it was alright and did a quick edit with darktable. Now i’m curious what you can make of it.
Image is CC-BY
I love to wander the woods in the morning. All sorts of light like this; nice capture.
A scene like this provides its own vignette. I just used a filmic curve to push the shadows down and lift the light. Highlight recovery, because the parts outside the shade usually blow.
I threw a saved style on which I knew I had pushed saturation.
Originally the saved style was for indoor karting at night, but I think works quite nicely bringing out the golden light. IMG_0779.CR2.xmp (9.5 KB)
I’ve tried to express the feeling I have in such situations: the high contrast between light and dark areas, and the dreamy effect of the beams of light.
Filmulator, -0.67EV, max. film area, white clipping 0.72624, shadow brightness 49.724, highlight brightness 1000, vibrance 69 (I guess it’s too much, but seemed nice when I did it :-)).
Very nice shot indeed! As the others, I tried to emphasize the contrast between the light rays and the forest. However, both global and local contrast do not cut it in my opinion, hence I used a drawn mask to reduce the brightness in the corners and draw the eye towards the center.
A very beautiful image which I have no doubt spoilt!
Done in GIMP, using a luminosity plugin to adjust brightness and saturation in various areas. Followed by slight sharpening with wavelet decompose.
Beautiful photo
I didn’t like any of the edits I did in colour so I tried for Black and white.
After selecting the preset (18) in Silver Effects, I added a slight blue tint to make it more Silver looking.