A few years ago I was at Ventry beach (Ireland)
It was a very cloudy day (so not much contrast or colours to photograph), but I found some very nice pictures in the sand, painted by the outgoing tide.
Here’s one of them. Using neutral profile in RT it looks really boring:
What an unusual shot. I thought of looking at it as a fortune teller seeing things in coffee suds/sand. And the following came to mind from an Iron Maiden song : The sands of time/ for me, are running low.
Thanks @heckflosse 4 the lovely image… can’t get my head around those not being trees. Thanks also everybody 4 sharing their flashy versions
First pass with Lightzone. Then got completely lost around masks and a black hole… with no hairs… inside gimp… gmic shared the pain of non finding the clit, I mean hit, he he
End up using this Oleg’s LUT - sometimes I would use same LUT on a {video} grade; closer to the end point in a node with a much turned down opacity, pseudo-cross-eye-process-etcetera style NegToPos_FujiG400_RGB.cube.zip (30.8 KB)
This is amazing for being totally natural in sand !!
Having said that, I thought I would convert it to something not so natural looking, a bit like a brass etching, and put it in a frame.
All done in darktable.
Ohh, only one day after I posted this and already so many nice results
I want to point out what I like at the processings:
@elGordo I like the contrast and the colour of your processing, though it’s a little bit too brownish for my taste
@paperdigits Mica, I really like your processing. It looks like you added a small vignette which fits very well!
@yteaot The colour gradients you used add a lot of depth to the the image!
@agriggio Alberto, you’re the only one who removed the annyoing parts ;-). That gives a much cleaner image. I also like the almost monochrome processing.
@savvy Your framed brass version is really cool. As I viewed your version the first time, I saw this jpeg blocky stuff before the image was rendered completely with full resolution. In combination with the brassy look of your processing that looked really really good! (like a mosaic)!! I have to take a look how to get that effect! Here’s a screenshot to show what I mean: