[PlayRaw] The other side of Machu Picchu

This is from my trip to Peru last year. It’s Machu Picchu seen from the top of Huayna Picchu, the mountain you always see on the typical photo of the city.

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I have a slight phobia of narrow winding mountain roads. :scream:

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Sharpened with unsharp mask and after with RL deconvolution
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Cropped in gimp

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Something happened here.

image

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Had a go at this with the filmic module and a few tweaks to get rid of the blue compression in the mountains in the background, some sharpening using the equalizer and a few tweaks to the saturation using the tone curve, LAB mode and a parametric mask.

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Test

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Hello,
my edit with darktable 2.6.0


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That’s the evidence I was looking for!

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Oh, they’ve been sending communications for a good few millennia. If anyone wants to translate these two, be my guest.


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An inky postcard type of look… RawTherapee 5.6

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Beautiful image, thanks.
My take with DT 2.7


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@gadolf Your processing skill has improved a lot.

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Thanks, @afre. I’m curious: what led you to think of that in this specific edit?

Compared to your first foray into Play Raw, this one is more deliberate and sophisticated. In particular, I enjoyed what you did with the shadows and textures.

Haven’t thought about that, but maybe it’s related to the partial dehazing, where I applied it stronger to the foreground in order to make it pop from the background. The way I did it, however, is confusing and there’s certainly simpler ways to achieve the same result.

All this talk is for nought if I don’t contribute to this fantastic image. As usual, I went for the minimalist route. Enjoy!

PhotoFlow minimal linear no-clip float.
gmic filter pixels, local contrast, 5 curves, sharpen-resize.