Yeah, my sidewalk is a skating rink.
@heckflosse’s version is fantastic but I could not use his pp3 on my non-dev standard RT 5.3 (it went into Neutral profile). This one is done using the non-nightly build. I am happy that I could more or less approximate his version!
SnowOnSpiderWeb.jpg.out.pp3 (11.4 KB)
This one should work on 5.3. Just apply neutral profile + the attached pp3
SnowOnSpiderWeb_Simple.cr2.pp3 (1.3 KB)
I wanted to go for more of an abstract smoke-from-a-downed-jet look:
SnowOnSpiderWeb.jpg.out.pp3 (10.5 KB)
Yes. It works. Interesting to see that there is no noise reduction applied but just a tone curve and putting saturation to -100. The simplicity of it is mind boggling!
Not to forget increasing black level in exposure tool to 1200.
Impressed by the sharpness you (collectively) can bring out of that not-so-good picture…
Boy in britches with hiking stick examining the ground. Anyone see that in the bottom left corner? I had fun playing with this image. Enjoy!
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PhotoFlow
– Export unbounded linear ACES. -
gmic
– Correct negative and hot pixels.
– Convert to B&W, smooth shadows. How I handled this step determined the overall look of the image. I spent the most time here trying different things and tweaking the result.
– Equalize local histograms. Quite slow on my machine: about 6 minutes.
– Curve to brighten image and preserve highlights.
– Reintroduce color information.
– Prep for sharing (resize, fp to jpg).
Edit: I didn’t put much thought into the color step. Just reintroduced the colors. Here is the B&W version. Which do you prefer?
I saw red individual pixels in the image I opened with rawproc; were them those?
How did you handle them in g’mic?
Funny you mentioned red. One of my alts had blood in water as a theme (sorry if it doesn’t look right; I have a terrible screen):
Boy in britches with hiking stick examining the ground.
I’ll stop posting here. When I post a spider the owner goes psycho, when I post ice crystals the picture acts a a Rorsach test and uncovers a bad case of pareidolia… and an obsession with blood.
Looks more like a scab peeling off…
@Ofnuts Blame @chroma_ghost for encouraging the crazy in me, @ggbutcher for pointing out the red and your profile pic for encouraging pareidolia.
I must say… now I’m wary of the possibility of you cuting someone’s ear and start chewing it in logarizmic ways : " " :
That’s kind of a cross posting
Bear-of-little-brain here had to look it up: “…is a type of apophenia, which is a more generalized term for seeing patterns in random data. Some common examples are seeing a likeness of Jesus in the clouds or an image of a man on the surface of the moon.”
Really, I’ve had to look up more words since I joined this group than at any prior time in my life. Metamerism, for instance, to tell me about what I already didn’t know regarding my socks…