Rawtherapee + Gimp_G’MIC filters for the illustrative/painting look (several layers, some masking to preserve some detail in freckles ans the sweater hood, and slight touch of dodging of the eye irises).
Rawtherapee with an Ilford Pan F Plus 50 film emulation and tone mapping to bring our the hair detail
A crop to remove redundant space and the logo from the coat, then sent the file to GIMP to ‘heal select’ the knotts in the wood which were catching my eye and distracting from Morgin
20th entry, couldn’t resist those innocent frecks. Mostly gmic and curves within gimp, love the 32 flotating WF but everything’s just too damn slow.Thanks MILC for the milk and everybody else participating
Nice portrait. Didn’t know what to do with it. Decided to give it another go today. Came up with something I didn’t expect. It isn’t even Halloween yet.
1.PhotoFlow → HL mode (blend) → lens correction → linear Rec2020 (no clipping) → 32f 2.gmic → fill unwanted pixels → adjust contrast, brightness (curves; face) → crop → resize (copy) → vignette → WAIT—WHAT? → → make less creepy
good that you gave the soul back to the child, it’s a big reponsabilityto hold a soul… to hold more than one it is a… sssiiiiiinnnn!!! You managed quite nice a version monsieur {hat off, 2/5 of a smile, blade to its sheath}
Morgin_Carpenter_DSC_1922.NEF.xmp (9.3 KB)
A new photo of the young man would be interesting. On the other hand, he might not like the idea. I wouldn’t, in his place, I think.
The Ashikhmin tone mapping operator is an implementation of “A Tone Mapping Algorithm for High Contrast Images” scientific paper written by Michael Ashikhmin, Department of Computer Science, SUNY
I think I misspelled Ashikhmin or suffered an auto-correction. The algorithm is included in the Luminance HDR software.
Thanks for the reply, HIRAM. I downloaded Luminance HDR and tried it out. There are two Mantiuk options, 06 and 08, now, and they are drastically different. 06 is a grainy, low saturation image while 08 is a much brighter, or lighter, version of the original. Wondered if you remembered what you used?
I exported the original image from dt as a 32f tif. The original image in L HDR displayed even lighter than the Mantiuk 08 image. Was that because L HDR processed it first? The original tif displayed just fine in GIMP.
Are you a professional? Knowing you wanted to boost the beta of the Fattal layer and by how much seems to be a decision only a lot of experience could produce. I am just starting to edit photos, at age 70, after buying an actual camera to take pictures on a trip.
Not into pro photo, my original focus in college was newspaper production editing. I tried everything from reportage to early 90’s photoshop and a lot of melted wax and blue pencils in between.
The grainy one is much more useful to me. I usually go for Overlay mode and vary the opacity once I get it into a Gimp layer. It’s usually a bit grainy for a normal layer.
beta of the Fattal layer
This usually gives me a black point effect, with values near 1.0 giving best results. Just under 1.0 is lighter, and above 1.0 starts to clip more.
the original tif
Show some examples if you’re having any difficulties or questions about Lhdr, we can help out. Make a new topic if it’s complex and beyond this image.
I did auto exposure, then lowered the exposure value to taste, added an S curve in film like mode, RL deconvolution sharpening, raising the radius until the sharpness of details was enhanced, did chroma noise reduction in LAB consevative, and subtly boosted local contrast with wavelets. Also, I tamed the magenta oversaturated skin tones with LAB A component curve that reduced the extreme saturated zones in magenta without affecting the neutrals or other colors.
I then did some highpass sharpening, masked to only effect the eyes in a pixel editor (non-FOSS Affinity Photo), but 95% of the look is from RT.