Personally I prefer (and like very much) the first version. In the second one there is something slightly disturbing in the lit part of the leaves, although I do not know what exactly it is that distracts my eyes…
You’ve kept the green too Pat. I stuck with the original idea of taking it too bright really - Autumn. I added a gradient to get round the bright foreground. It needs to be angled and RT doesn’t handle that well unless I have missed something. It brightened from each side of an angled line so left a brighter patch bottom left. I’m not keen on the cinema crop either.
Seeing glow mentioned I thought I would see what GIMP’s Orton effect would do. Too much fine detail really so wasn’t keen on the result. I duplicated the blurred layer and set normal mode and reduced the opacity to get a sort of misty result.
John
By the way, my inspiration when I first saw this was Steichen’s The Pond—Moonlight, 1904:
The Pond—Moonlight - WikipediaPP3 attached to first post.
Am I late for the woods party?
Here is my darktable developed photo.
2016-10-16_soderasen_12.arw.xmp (16.9 KB)
Sorry resurrecting this thread. But I just found this image and couldn’t resist to try myself. Darktable only.
Morgan_Hardwood-2016-10-16_soderasen_12.arw.xmp (6.4 KB)
Yes– this photo is great, as are many of the older play-raws.
Don’t forget everyone - you can see a list of all of the posts tagged play_raw right here:
https://discuss.pixls.us/tags/play_raw
Or you can just click the little “play_raw” up at the top by the topic title:
Oh yeah! Found this in my PlayRaw folder. I think I did most of it in RT when it was first published and forgot to upload it. I just now resized it in GIMP.
@Thomas_Do, there’s no law that says you can’t resurrect any, old thread you find interesting. Especially when it’s to play around with such lovely photos.
Barely any processing needed to enjoy this photo.
1. PhotoFlow
→ blend HL mode → CA correction → lin Rec.2020 (no clipping).
2. gmic
→ fill negatives → add contrast (curve) → smooth (hot pixel, guided) → vignette → resize → sharpen (edge).
Enjoy!
It’s a nice photo and thread
@MLC has a dreamy vintage look going
and it seems my tastes align with @Thomas_Do
Not sure how I missed this one, great image.
I think what I have looks most like @patdavid’s . An aggressive curve, just about laid the spline flat on the bottom and top ends. Crop to take out the foreground and put the lighted part in a good place in the frame:
Processed in GIMP. Darkened the immediate foreground with a feathered selection. Other adjustments using curves.
How about a little fun? (I hope fun is allowed!)
Fiery colours of autumn.