I hate tripods… but today I thought I’ld contradict my guts and brought along sticks and a polariser. The devil just needs a tripod and slippery rocks to win my soul over, maaaan do I just loose my cool (!!!)… Anyways, I ended up taking most of the photos handheld; like this one. The most blatant issue is the missfocus which the slow shutter doesn’t help. Other than that I’m pretty ok with it. Don’t hesitate to dig in the darkness, this sensor takes a beating
He-hey viky hey @CarVac does Filmulator have like a “HL” protect/preserve? Hope U don’t mind me saying that in your very slide like rendition I find a pity the burnt rocks on top - just for clarity sake I’m totally pro blown minds and abused highlights but in the present case I was so concerned ‘bout keepin’ sun’s golden piss that I harshly underexposed the take. Cheers =)
@shreedhar … unmmm… ahá>… ohhhh>… mmmmm…eeerrrr … what about moving the cable between the 2 birds and plane and moon still diagonal? … vas ist irony ?? dunno… {big mustache, bigger belly, and biggest blood-injected eyes: are those haloooossss I seee?!! Send mahakali at once!!!
@s7habo must say, is so cool to see other people interpret the scene, it really is. Like your colour palette and the glowy glue you brushed over, a minor moose the HL are bit greenish, some fringinn going on and birds getting LSD high… seagull monogamic bastards know how to deal with everyday’s wear. Tak bro
whatup @age ?! Subdued I like it - knives stay at home - … a biiit on the greenish admeasurement… and then so is dcraw output, a good tip is the sky… you know that memory blue in our heads is fucked up; but I understand it as your choice which is cool, gonna say peace now: peace
It does have highlight recovery, but in this case a) there were no clipped highlights anyway and b) I intentionally brought them to very near the point of clipping myself.
Filmulator inherently attenuates bright areas, but only if they’re large. This area in particular was right next to the black cave walls, so it was actually probably slightly boosted in brightness.
not sure this would be a keeper
but i’m taking the challenge of pushing the blacks by ~5ev:
i usually don’t like to remove trotski from my images and i suck at doing it, but this power line? climbing rope? was disturbing me.
darktable only, mostly spot removal + base curve with exposure fusion.
@chroma_ghost looks like you want the cable and colour in the photo. Here is another attempt . Does it warrant another Kali execution? _IMG0284.jpg.out.pp3 (11.6 KB)
Only difference is I applied the inverted overlay layer locally using the brush tool, trying to accentuate the bottom and the left upper part of the cave.
but i’m taking the challenge of pushing the blacks by ~5ev
holly wacamolly @hanatos !!! I’m gonna need my welding shades then
remove trotski
hihihihi, blasphemous you!! hihii
so you were at DartKable, I mean Klark Gable and didn’t feel like using those useful tools available at no cost for masking a bit and bring back the greatness of father sky? hmmmmm… okay
What is that patch at the bottom, and that line at the center?
@afre {deep fried south} you don’t get all asking stuff lazy boy on me now, you hear(?) you sweat like every motherfluffer else.
patch at the bottom are accumulated tears (neutral PH) , line is climbing gear (not mine) specifically a thick steel cable… if I try and repeat the shot - a bit out of my rice paper credo, but hey maybe when full moon arises, who knows right (?) - I might try to disengage it or at least hung something meaningful from it… something like… say… a goat. BUTT iif overall disposition makes you sad I can upload a different cave-moon shot just for you, 'cause above anything else in this world I don’t want you to be sad - - - insert super kitsch 80s soundtrack here - - -
@shreedhar you would understand my humour if you had spent as much time and resources first hating the cable as if was the cause of every disgrace since the dawn of men, then understanding that it was part of reality, then forgiving your dad for not giving you the unicorn you always dreamt about
dad did know better… so many brave men killed by unicorns each year
I then noticed that you actually didn’t manage to get there.
You not need to bursting me bubble yo @McCap !!! or how you say, ah LOL yolo bolo manolo tattoo stars and right on top mermo, just love bro just LOVE and also a fine job mr Capiohh
It might be so Mario, but I think you did a great natural looking approach here, congrats!! I might end up developing just like yours =) Only thing missing was a chromatic aberration module/filter; which funny enough it seems I cannot regulate nor make a second intance.
PS
now looking closer at them side by side, seems the chromatic aberrations module steals some colour too, specially noticeable in the “yellow” rock and watter, exported both tifs and issue is there, weird
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reminded me my own version (on hault) I was doing in photoflow, got chickepox
Tears are never neutral; they come in times of duress or joy. So you are saying that it is a puddle? It looks like a random patch of color painted on in post or the result of an out of gamut area.
Would you prefer us to remove the cable or leave it there? I could not tell from your poetic speech. It would have been hilarious if a crazier than thou person photo bombed you.
Ja ajAjaja aj you’re the best =) @afre also when you wake up or when you realise something “epiphanic”. Personally would not dare to measure those kind of moments; against what?
AND we need to count in exposition to air, crab’s crap, limpets own tiny tears (those are very alkaline), algae residuals ,salt watter, etc. So…yahh… guess not perfectly neutral
It would have been hilarious if a crazier than thou person photo bombed you.
It’s not easy to find people willing to have wet fun without penetration, oh in my head that sounded better, anyway I’m thinking about training a monkey in the role of photographer assistant… the problem is that locations might also get cover in peanuts’ shells… dilema oh dilema!!!
On the rare ocassions I do find company, it’s a lot of fun. From yesterday
Would you prefer us to remove the cable or leave it there? I could not tell from your poetic speech
ja ja ja, I already told you in my poetic speech: neither and both; do as you like man! I’m just messin/poking at people; plain curiosity to see if they move and bite; this is just a medium.
ja aja ajaAaja jjjja @shreedhar you completelly got me there, you sneaky you used the old multiply to conquer trick. Namastetimes 10 XD U so right there’s too uch reality ja ja ajaa
Or when cutting onions. Those are neutral. So obviously someone prepared a meal there.
@houz Obviously ,-)
While you’re are here, let me ask you why does DT’s chromatic aberrations module seems to desaturate colour overall?
shades then 
