@afre@Mario_Saraceni thanks for the feedback! What I like about this shot is the multiple golden section sense of the layers and the s-curve: very photogenic data.
Honestly this image is just great as it is, thanks for sharing.
As it is great out of camera (I would totally leave it as it is), I tried to come up with something creative…
…so I desaturated the greens to put them more into the mist and highlighted (by saturation and detail) the path and its lighter green side on the right.
Destressing again. Not entirely happy with the result. Let me know what you like and don’t like so that I can improve next time.
dcraw
a) Output linear 16-bit TIF.
gmic
a) Lightness: increase regional contrast + reduce noise.
b) Chroma: stretch contrast.
c) Redistribute pixel values, favoring shadows.
d) Sharpen by tone mapping.
e) Reduce noise (maybe before step d next time?).
GIMP
a) Spot heal blotches at center-left and bottom-left.
Thought I’d try something different. I used Fotoxx to open the raw and stayed in it rather than switching to RT. Produced 2 images. On one I clarified the mist as much as I could to bring out detail with Fotoxx tools. The other I just adjusted for a sort of nice look not worrying about mist detail. Then the gimp with images as layers. Blended in the detail shot in normal mode with the opacity slider. Looked a bit flat so new from visible duplicate and softlight at about 50% opacity. Maybe too much. I noticed that the lower part had a darker area that didn’t blend in well so back to Fotoxx and a none linear gradient. Final resize and slight sharpen.
Only thing is that if I look at it in an hour or so I might decide I need to change it and go through the lot again. Often happens with me but I’ll leave it in this case.
Oh forgot to mention I messed with the high end of the red channel to avoid clipping when contrast was pushed up via a simple curve. Suppose I could also have played with the sky colour.
Edit I feel I should have cropped some of the foreground out. The darkness of that doesn’t fit in well with a web site that uses a white foreground but I decided to “forget” that. It can only be viewed in a lightbox type display really.
John
@Mario_Saraceni very nice picture, thank you for sharing and letting us play with it!!!
Here are two versions of mine, both edited with photoflow, one in colors and one grayscale.
In both cases I have basically used several instances of contrast, saturation, brightness and curves adjustments, masked with horizontal gradients to protect the areas I didn’t want to modify:
In both cases, I have tried to emphasize the curvy shape of the road in the foreground.
The .PFI file for the grayscale version is here: DSC_0539.pfi (68.1 KB)
The color version can be obtained by simply disabling the second layer group…
I’m curious to see what you all think of those two edits!
@paperdigits Nice crop. It works and I actually don’t mind the path being there.
@Carmelo_DrRaw Wow, nicely done. The results remind me of technicolor and B&W film. Earlier in the thread, I mentioned that I preferred a brighter foreground and I think you have done it well. Makes me a hypocrite because I didn’t do that with my own attempt . I will probably give it another go.
The tool I used to generate the grainy versions is briefly introduced here. It is not open-sourced yet, but I plan to put the code on github in the near future.
@chroma_ghost could you share the .PFI file that could not be exported? I have edited the above images with version 0.2.8 and had no issues at all. However I have only used few tools (basic adjustments, curves and gradients). Maybe there is some specific tool that is causing troubles…
I love all the latest versions of the “misty path” image. If I really have to pick a favourite, I’d probably say @Carmelo_DrRaw’s second colour is hard to beat.
The tricolour effect (Hungarian flag? Or Indian flag?) is clearly a dominant theme, and I really like how it has been a) emphasised, b) de-emphasised, or c) just smashed to pieces in a couple of the interpretations.
Haven’t worked through a digital camera pic in a while (my main image work is with film scans). Fun, nice looking landscape in the vertical, if a little soft on focus. Ripped this off quick.