Ok, by popular demand , here is the picture I took recently in Bilbao of the Guggenheim Museum. I have written the story to the picture in this post:
I had dirt on the lens, which I only noticed later so there are one or two spots in the sky, which have to be cleaned up.
Hereâs my processed take, done in RT and Gimp. As I didnât plan on doing a playraw I donât remember exactly what I did, But basically I did a base processing in RT and the did the clean up in gimp, plus I added some details in the structures in Gimp.
In Darktable, perspective correction, cropped, shadows & highlights, local contrast, played around with the colour zones (three times), split toning and a bit of vignetting;
@Carmelo_DrRaw, @bminney, that was quick. Nice takes!
Carmelo, itâs funny I actually did a version with photoflow and it was very similar to what you have done. I like how the Guggenheimâs structure comes out in your take.
Bminney, nice idea with the toning.
I think I do see very slight haloing in both of your takes.
Well I was doing it at speed! I thought there was haloing in the distance and I suppose I couldâve tackled it with luminosity masks in GIMP but I wanted to use Darktable. Its still a great photo no matter how much we mess around with it. I especially like the reflections in the bottom right corner - they almost creep in unnoticed.
Interesting variations.
Very interesting crop @alex666
Nice toning @chroma_ghost (in the first one )
There is one on the right side at half height, more like a smear. you can see it in Carmelo_DrRaw version.
Yes. @Carmelo_DrRaw, @bminney, I hope miy halo comment didnât come accross as rude. It is just that I have been practicing a lot processing lately, where I try to make high contrast photos less contrasty (pulling shadows up and highlights down). And I got halos very often doing that. So maybe I developed an oversensitivity.
In your pictures it was almost unnoticeable and didnât detract from the picture.
(Contrary to some people on Flickr who post pictures with terrible halos, and people love them ???)
On the contrary, I hate halos probably at least as much as you do!
Thatâs for me the one thing that still makes digital photography an awful artistic product in so many cases⌠so I try as much as possible to avoid halos in my edits.
I struggle with halos and to be honest didnât really see them until the evening when I had different lighting in the room (we had that rare thing in the UK earlier - sunshine!).
I suppose Iâm guilty of trying too many processes at once but I do like Darktable, its very tempting!!
So no donât worry, Iâm a beginner at this processing lark and appreciate any useful comments
Nice photo. I was there a few years ago. I used a few Darktable 2.6.2 with filmic, retouch, and the perspective correction module and a few other modules to sharpen and bring out some color.
That focal length is a challenge though and the building does not have a lot of straight lines.
Nice image @McCap. Here is an attempt using GIMP 2.10. Just used Screen and Mutiply mode with masking and then a slight color toning. It could definitely be done better. But donât have time for the thorough job.
, here is the picture I took recently in Bilbao of the Guggenheim Museum. I have written the story to the picture in this post:
