[PlayRaw] Hawkcraig Pier

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@elGordo, the pier was constructed in the 1850s, when a ferry used to run between Aberdour, Fife & Leith, Edinburgh. Once the railway opened in Aberdour, the ferry ceased operation in 1890. More info here:

http://ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=999

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“The pier is now in a ruinous and dangerous condition.”
I’d say!

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First, I’d like to say ‘hi’ as this is my very first post. Here it goes my try with Lightzone

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@awoisoak Hello, welcome to the forum! Nice colorful sky.

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Welcome! It looks nice, can you share what you did?

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Thanks, I repeated the steps here:

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Sadly I slept in to get down to the pier for Sunrise this morning :frowning: Anyway, great video @awoisoak, Lightzone looks an interesting piece of software.

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I see. I wonder where the missing pieces went. Made into someone’s furniture? :rofl:

As a chronic insomniac, I would imagine that good sleep is like sunrise at Hawkcraig Pier :sun_with_face:.

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@Kane_Davis Were you going to post something? Maybe you discovered something new and are working on it :slight_smile:, but I can’t wait to see what you come up with. For me, it often takes multiple tries to get it right!

Here is another attempt by me :slight_smile:. Basically, it takes the first two steps of my original take and redoes step 3 to give a less faux-HDR appearance. The new step 3:

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    a) Since I had trouble with LCH manipulation, I decided to duplicate the base image and treat one copy in favor of lightness and the other color using curves, and then combine them.

    b) Same denoise and redistribution, only this time with more care and denoise only once.

    c) No clipping this time.

    d) Prep: sharpening prior to resizing turned out to be more effective than the other way around.

New take (original take)

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