I’ve just returned home after a few days away. Coming in on final into Brisbane saw this vessel at the Cruise Terminal. This is the best of a few rapid captures; still some motion blur, but no time to adjust to a faster shutter speed. Overcast conditions and aircraft window both make for reduced dynamic range and contrast. So, is it overcooked? Or is it even a keeper? Opinions, and critique of my attempt welcome.
My play in GIMP. Increase of contrast, more saturation of low and medium saturation areas and extra sharpening. I also attempted to remove what I assume were spots on the window.
Apart from the Rawtherapee challenge (lacam16n), I offer you this possible treatment (one among others). I only used “Local adjustments” tools.
But, everything is subjective
Of course with last branch : lacam16n
Two RT-spots (summary):
the first global that uses Cam16: in Source Data Adjustments": TRC : gamma - slope - midtones and Smooth highlight Rollloff with “Slope based”
always in the first Spot : Cam16 Images Adjustments : Brightness (Q), Local Contrast, Contrast (Q), Saturation (s)
always in the first Spot : Local Contrast & Wavelet => Wavelet : Local contrast, Merge luma (Clarity & sharp mask…)
the second spot for the sky : Cam16 - Smooth highlights Rolloff - Slope based, and lightness (Image adjustments)
always in the second spot: Blur/grain denoise → denoise : non local means.
Here is my take. The idea was to pop out the cruise ship as much as possible, and enhance the greens to bring a colour contrast. Used HP filter and CB-RGB for that
