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Alrighty fellows! Have at it 
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@stefan.chirila I donât drink COFFEE! Any chance you could take a few more shots for focus stacking? Would like to see more of this apparatus: what would you call it?
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It looks like Turkish coffee, and apparatus should be a kind of cezve. In Bosnia, it is called dĆŸezva. In Greece, the coffee is called Greek coffee, of course.
I love coffee! Italian expresso of courseâŠ
My take: Luminance HDR 2.5.1, ferradans11, pregamma = 0.5, rho = 2.8, inverse alpha= 6.9, white balance
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First RT processing
ND7_2773.jpg.out.pp3 (11.6 KB)
Then just a bit of GIMP love:
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donât have more shots as of now, but can check in the folder. the name is briki (Greek), ibric (Romanian) and other names as below.
I make Turkish coffee (or my version thereof) with it. Itâs too bad you donât like coffee, it makes awesome coffee.
Recipe: maple syrup at bottom, fill with distilled water but leave a bit of room, then pour very finely ground coffee on top of the water, and set on medium-high heat. Once the water sucks in the coffee, lift in order to avoid volcano-like eruption 
then repeat the near-boil for a total of 3 times. Then I let it sit for some 2-3min then pour avoiding the grinds that collected at the bottom. 
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nice! welcome aboard the RawTherapee ship! 
Thanks @stefan.chirila.
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Gotta try thisâŠlife without coffee isnât life.
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@elGordo as a fellow caffeine lover, you may appreciate this one as well:
I was chatting with some of my fellow coworkers from India, having heard that âspiced milk teaâ was a popular street treat in India, and after some conversation, recipe swapping and some improvising I have come up with a recipe which is rather lovely.
Now, hereâs a disclaimer I am not 100% on what they told me to do, but here is what worked for me eventually. I use an average kitchen pot (will post pictures if requested - size doesnât matter), in which I throw some 4-5 pieces of cloves, optionally one piece of Cardamom, some 5-7 thin slices of ginger, a half-handful of pepper corns (green ones, or black ones is what I had at times). To these I add, 1/4 table spoon of raw honey, and 3x 3/4 table spoon of maple syrup (what this means, in plain English is, 1 table spoon and 1/4 table spoon 
donât ask).
Now, the tea is brewed in water, so to this mix you add 1 and a half cups of distilled water. I am using an oversized IKEA espresso cup, which I think is 3oz? (image below) So please, consider this is the kind of cup I use from here on.
You bring this broth to a boil, make it bubble, then move off the heat. When the bubbles are gone, add the tea, and leave it in there, with a lid on for 3minutes. Tea amount: 6 tea spoons of various mixes, mostly black tea (I prefer Russian Samovar, some Assam, and perhaps one Oolong for variety).
Once the 3 minutes of steeping are over, add 2 and a half of the same cup worth of whole milk to it all, and put it back on full heat. Stir for a while, youâll figure out for how long, after a few tries, until the tea broth and milk have mixed well. Leave sitting under lid, off heat, for at least 3min for further mixing. Enjoy.
You may need a strainer
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@elGordo let me know how it turns out. The fresher the ground coffee the better, also aim for lighter roasts, since the procedure makes it strong to begin with.
@shreedhar youâre very welcome
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Looks yummy!
Iâll see if I can find some quiet time a little later to play also!
ps: Would you mind attaching a license to it for us, please?
@stefan.chirila I like your spiced milk tea photo. It has a lot of character and is very inviting. I do enjoy a cup of tea once in a while, so I will try your second recipe, but without the milk (severe allergy). Where do you purchase your ingredients BTW?
@afre the picture with the cup is actually of turkish coffee, but it is the cup I drink the tea with also.
I buy the teas from this place in town called Distinctly tea. Not sure if theyâre a chain or if they deliver. http://shop.distinctlytea.com/
@patdavid updated post.
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Hi there,
this is my try. My eye was irritated by the light spot on the upper right. So I tried to get rid of it using darktableâŠ
Thanks for the raw !
ND7_2773.NEF.xmp (11.4 KB)
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First time with Darktable. Using the windows version. 
4578853e7ddc2005dee3ec2a63897f74f60bc67e.NEF.xmp (10.0 KB)
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