pphoto
February 24, 2019, 8:15pm
#1
This is at the infamous ‘Tiger & Turtle’ in Duisburg, Germany. It’s a viewing platform that is built like a roller coaster. You can climb the steps on this platform (except the looping) and have a nice view on the ruhr area.
This PlayRaw contains a bracketing of three images at sunset. Lens was a Pentax-M 28mm F2.8. Distance between the images is 2 steps.
RAW-files (CC BY-NC 4.0):20190224_DU_TTurtle_0832_Mesh_Bracket_01.DNG (14.0 MB)20190224_DU_TTurtle_0833_Mesh_Bracket_01.DNG (12.5 MB)20190224_DU_TTurtle_0834_Mesh_Bracket_01.DNG (14.2 MB)
Since there is currenty a thread where ‘exposure blending’ is mentioned I thought it would be a good idea to provide some training material.
What others have mentioned above, there is a lot of work with luminosity masks and dodging and burning.
It reminds me a little of my own work.
I intentionally took this picture very underexposed to avoid overexposing of very bright gap between darker clouds and a block of flats. The girl with the bicycle, trees and grass was accordingly very dark. With the use of luminosity masks and lot of dodging and burning I managed to direct the viewer’s attention to a diffusely illuminated girl with a bi…
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gadolf
February 24, 2019, 9:46pm
#2
Thanks.
20190224_DU_TTurtle_0832_Mesh_Bracket_01-01_01.pfi (22.2 KB)
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pphoto
February 25, 2019, 12:06am
#3
Great edit. This hdrmerge tool looks usable to me. Unfortunately it is not in the Ubuntu software center.
gadolf
February 25, 2019, 12:21am
#4
I just downloaded this release to make this edit: Releases · jcelaya/hdrmerge · GitHub
EDIT: I mean, I used the appimage.
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s7habo
February 25, 2019, 8:10am
#5
Hi @pphoto ,
Nice Photo!
My try with darktable and GIMP. I used only darkest image:
20190224_DU_TTurtle_0833_Mesh_Bracket_01.DNG.xmp (10,9 KB)
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yteaot
February 25, 2019, 12:36pm
#6
First exposure blending (dark + clear) with darktable / enfuse_pro.lua >> tif
Then adjust tif in DT >> jpg
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age
March 2, 2019, 12:47pm
#9
I’ve opted for a natural looking HDR tonemapped image with the darkest exposure (-2 EV) shot because it has very low noise and high dynamic range.
I’ve opened the raw in Rawtherapee and reduced the exposure about 1 ev with recover highlights enabled , defringing and false color suppression
in Photoflow I’ve raised the exposure about 3 EV
New tone mapping tool in photoflow
20190224_DU_TTurtle_0833_Mesh_Bracket_01.pfi (26.7 KB)
for comparison this is the jpeg from camera 0 EV
5)optional local contrast in Rawtherapee
20190224_DU_TTurtle_0833_Mesh_Bracket_01pfa.tif.pp3 (11.7 KB)
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afre
March 2, 2019, 6:49pm
#10
@age Good brightening; however, in the process, the golden sunset is almost gone.
This is Photomatix - commercial product. I wont the same but with RawTherapee : )
age
March 4, 2019, 5:58pm
#12
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@age Good job!!!@Chaotic_Sys to my eyes this RT version is way better than photomatix… what do you think?
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@Carmelo_DrRaw Yes, it is really good job!
afre
March 4, 2019, 7:07pm
#15
@age Much better. Thanks for considering my feedback. It looks kind of video gamey now… People tell me that I expect too much.
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age
March 4, 2019, 7:16pm
#16
Ahahah
well it’s true, for me my last attempt has too much local contrast artifacts.
