[PlayRaw] Snow on spider web

Ofnuts · February 11, 2018, 9:14pm

How do I do that? Some metadata on the CR2 itself?

afre · February 11, 2018, 9:19pm

Just PlayRaw stuff to keep in mind. How cold is it where you live? There’s freezing rain in Toronto.

Ofnuts · February 11, 2018, 9:22pm

Ok, done.

heckflosse · February 11, 2018, 9:49pm

SnowOnSpiderWeb.jpg.pp3 (11.0 KB)

elGordo · February 11, 2018, 11:22pm

Yeah, my sidewalk is a skating rink.

shreedhar · February 12, 2018, 7:02am

@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)

heckflosse · February 12, 2018, 12:35pm

This one should work on 5.3. Just apply neutral profile + the attached pp3
SnowOnSpiderWeb_Simple.cr2.pp3 (1.3 KB)

Morgan_Hardwood · February 12, 2018, 1:06pm

I wanted to go for more of an abstract smoke-from-a-downed-jet look:
SnowOnSpiderWeb.jpg.out.pp3 (10.5 KB)

shreedhar · February 12, 2018, 4:34pm

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!

heckflosse · February 12, 2018, 4:37pm

Not to forget increasing black level in exposure tool to 1200.

Thomas · February 12, 2018, 6:05pm

SnowOnSpiderWeb.cr2.pp3 (10.5 KB)

GMIC Testing>Iain Fergusson> Noise Reduction 5

Thomas_Do · February 12, 2018, 6:06pm

My version in DT. Thanks for the image .

SnowOnSpiderWeb.cr2.xmp (8.5 KB)

paperdigits · February 12, 2018, 6:45pm

Here is my try, an agressive crop + monochrome:

SnowOnSpiderWeb.cr2.xmp (7.4 KB)

Ofnuts · February 12, 2018, 9:15pm

Impressed by the sharpness you (collectively) can bring out of that not-so-good picture…

afre · February 13, 2018, 7:50pm

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!

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?

ggbutcher · February 13, 2018, 8:05pm

I saw red individual pixels in the image I opened with rawproc; were them those?

How did you handle them in g’mic?

yteaot · February 13, 2018, 8:15pm

DT SnowOnSpiderWeb.cr2.xmp (7.7 KB)

afre · February 13, 2018, 8:31pm

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):

Ofnuts · February 13, 2018, 9:56pm

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.

Ofnuts · February 13, 2018, 9:58pm

Looks more like a scab peeling off…