@patdavid Haven’t gotten a chance to comment on this photo. First impressions were:
- Interesting lighting and expression.
- Gran, what big buttons you have! (All the better to [fill in the blank ].)
- Is that an oddly placed hair clip!?
@patdavid Haven’t gotten a chance to comment on this photo. First impressions were:
OK. Here is a colour version, purely RT5.4. The texture of the sweater is a counterpoint to the smoothness of the skin. So kept both of them illuminated.
patdavid-Mairi_Troisieme.jpg.out.pp3 (11.3 KB)
Super late entry, but as this thread was reviewed…
Basics done in RT, then into Gimp where I used different curves on the face, hair, cardigan and background.
My attempt, with darktable.
The first is an attempt to stay in topic with the original article: “A Chiaroscuro Portrait”.
I remove base curve & tone curve & highlight reconscruction, after I brighted the image with
## contrast brightness saturation ##
saturation -1
blend mode addition
luminosity mask 0 50 50 100
and I adjusted tones with zone system
The second is more inspired by some very dark paintings by Caravaggio. I turn off base curve and I darkened the image with
## contrast brightness saturation ##
contrast +0.2
saturation -1
blend mode multiply
after I adjust tone with tone_curve (middle contrast) and
## levels system ##
mode automatic
black 0.1%
gray 55%
white 99.9%
RT only (little unsharp mask with Gimp)
Finally decided what to do. Here is my take.
1. PhotoFlow
→ HL mode (blend) → linear Rec2020 (no clipping) → 32f
2. gmic
→ fill unwanted pixels → smooth (guided, 1/2) → adjust brightness, contrast (curves, face) → my filter (unpublished) → contrast enhancement → rotate → crop → sharpen → resize → frame
Zoom 100% to enjoy!
I think she’s become a named storm.
Or maybe a distant galaxy.
Alternatively, one can always go down the mad route.
Darktable, Filmic, Color balance × 3 and some local contrast enhancements :
patdavid-Mairi_Troisieme.ORF.xmp (32.2 KB)
EDIT : forgot to mention split-frequency editing with the new “retouch” module
Wow, what a fantastic result!
What is RT5.4? My google-fu failed me.
It is raw therapee, version 5.4.
I’ve been looking at this one from one of the first moments I found out about this site and never felt confident enough to attempt an edit. Well…
Tried to keep it, what I would call natural. I don’t see any reason why Mairi’s face needs to be smoothed or altered in any way. I did need to balance the sharpening: Show all the little details in her face and let the motif of her cardigan(??) be as clear as possible or…
Enough talk, here’s what I came up with: