Good luck with your bread, @chroma_ghost, I’m glad you took the time to do things with this. I’ll go through it again tomorrow, with a “fresh mind”, but I am a friend of your approaches, both when doing photos and when doing text (where my basic Yasser Arafat English isn’t good enough).
The annoying t-shirt is what you usually get, where one takes the first clean one (never ironed) in the “morning”.
The slightly greenish guy’s grey hair might indicate some mosses living there. (Or is it my monitor? Or both circumstances?)
Anyway, it was really nice to hear from you, thanks, bee fine!
Way to multitask! Photo of your smoking hot bread or it didn’t happen!
Yeah, that was what I noticed too. I also couldn’t help but notice the shape of his head. With the jawline, his head is like an apricot seed or a teardrop (esp. apparent in @Wocket’s crop). Anyway, good take. I would have done the same in the initial steps but I am too lazy to tackle this PlayRaw (also major back pains this past week).
@Jacal There is something going on with his ear (esp. apparent in @shreedhar’s take). It looks like plastic for some reason; maybe the texture or color…
Could be the bad, old equipment, and an incompetent photographer. Or, maybe, many veterans have plastic ears. This guy has seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
@afre very quick grab as didn’t want to disturb the guy’s sweating; gonna write it down before you ask, je je: red lentils, 4 flowers (2 kinds of weat, rye and carob), walnuts, cummin seeds and just a hair of virgin olive oil and soy souce. No smoke 'cause still very hot here, this bread can go 2 weeks and does no get spoilt, also is good to improvise barricades =)
Sorry @jacal for the detour, but if I don’t answer the good afre he will chase me yhrough my dreams
Tshirt is not annoying, me like red. Mosses live in everybody’s rooftop, some hide it, some use it as a wig, je eje. All good bro
Exercising new filmic / color balance tools in Darktable.
Going for the same approach as others to darken the background turned out to be very straightforward in filmic.
Thanks for posting. I find Play Raw a great way to test out presets that I have created. I love to see how the image loads without any further tweaks.
Here is a recent one I created and named Black & White Portrait. I actually use a color film LUT (Stuart Sowerby’s Velvia) in addition to the black and white tool with a red-yellow filter as well as pushing the exposure. This combo seems to give very light skin tones but retains deep blacks elsewhere. I also used the Contrast Level by Details tool to smooth out skin blemishes. Black & White portrait.jpg.out.pp3 (14.2 KB)
After loading my preset, I changed the film sim to Acros, lowered the exposure, and turned off Contrast Level by details. This accentuated the skin and skin ‘blemishes’ Black & White portrait 2.jpg.out.pp3 (14.2 KB)
