I’ve always found it challenging to render green foliage in a picture in a pleasing way. I’ve often missed that aspect of old film prints from my youth, and missed it in more modern digital workflows.
So, I first “cheated” by using the agx-emulsion film simulator, but then I tried to redo it “by hand”. Here’s my result, using ART. (The parameters are embedded in the jpg in case someone wonders)
Here is my attempt in DT 5.1. I used the color zones module to set the final exposure for the greens and the tree trunk because I wanted to subdue the building in the background. 2025-03-15-17h20m54.00s.dng.xmp (12.5 KB)
I used to hate processing greens, but I’ve learned to embrace them. I realized that I like them darker and with more cyan than how they often come straight out of camera. Bright neon greens are not pleasant to me.
Felt it needed to go a tinge towards yellow (so shifted that way). Also used luma invert overlay to open up the shadow details again as well as enhanced the contrast.
(very pretty picture btw)
