Made this on my balcony today, it’s a bud from one of my clematis. Made the preview from a early development stage, will post my final edits later.
Lens was a SMC Takumar 55mm M42
tone:filmic,6.20,0.20,1.70,0.50,1.00 - A very shallow curve, didn’t normalize to 1.0 so as to keep some definition in the highlights.
crop:0.141844,0.105220,0.888036,0.851413 - eliminated the couple of background nits on the left; really played with the layout of the bud entering the frame to dead-center.
saturation:0.30 - this is actually a desaturation; I wanted a muted pastel look
curve:rgb,0.0,0.0,29.0,13.0,185.0,186.4,255.0,255.0 - S-curve separated the bud from the background even more. Could have probably removed filmic and done all the tone here.
sharpen:convolution,1.50 - I wanted to put a little snap in the hairs, while the internal image was still the original resolution.
group: (my standard proof group prior to saving, but I upped the resolution for PlayRaw)
resize:1080
sharpen:1
As with most PlayRaws, I found rawproc regressions, this time I noticed in the sharpen tool the convolution matrix isn’t updating as I dial in various strengths; I’m re-organizing the command processing and missed that.
Thank you for the cool photo.
Here is my take on it. Not sure what happened in the background but I think my Tri Tone Color grade made the bokeh get a slightly marbled look due the the fact that it has some highlights, shadows, and midtones in there. But I kinda like what happened back there tbh.