Shot of a field for improvments.

Oufff ok this is my first Play Raw of a picture I snapped today. I still can’t do anything nice with the RAW in DT so I used the JPG of the EOS T7 to adjust a few things, as well as color improvement, to have more vivid green colors.

My idea was to bring the picture closer to what I could see with my eyes because obviously, the camera is unable to calculate proper exposures naturally between the sky and the ground without any filters.

This is my result, I would wish for deeper blue in the sky but it’s a difficult task.
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And the conclusion from previous discussions was that, it’s possible to use a RAW and to make a new, much betterpicture then what the camera can process to JPG by itself, (which was pretty poor without post processing, in terms of exposures between the sky and the ground)

License: The image can be used for the educational and artistic purposes of this play raw only.

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You just need to add this to let people access and edit the image…

This file is licensed Creative Commons, By-Attribution, Share-Alike.

Usually you also share your xmp though you can load a jpg as the sidecare in the lighttable view and recover the history as well…

For some reason, my sky looks a little off. I don’t think I did anything that should have changed it. Hmmm.

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There is no .xmp with the image, Darktable will create one but I didn’t modify it myself, IMO it’s not worth sharing.

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NP…here is one quick version the blue and green hue and brightness could certainly be altered…

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I won’t post the image until the license is clear…

QUESTION:

I tried to use use settings to get a long dept of field in this picture by using a aperture of 11. I think I used an autofocus and the focus is a bit better on the soybeans then the trees on in background.

I am a bit unhappy about the sharpness of the tree line but I like the focus on the soybeans.

In your opinion, is it a matter of using a aperture even smaller then 11 next time? Or should I simply manually focus on the trees in the background?

There is an option to choose the point of focus with my camera, I am still not familiar with it.

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The license, I don’t wish the image to be used commercially. The rest of the creative commons is OK except for that part.

There is a non commercial version of the CC license.

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I just grabbed one from a playraw and didn’t check it…

@paperdigits notes there is a version for your requirements I think…

I took a look at the edit I did the first time and noticed the clouds had artifacts…

Here is another edit… I might go back again and see if the tree line could be helped…

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I’ll go ahead with this one: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This file is licensed with the modified Creative Commons, By-Attribution, Share-Alike.

I don’t fully understand the meaning of this:

ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

I’ll check this out tomorrow.

“I just grabbed one from a playraw and didn’t check it…”

No problem, I checked them all and learned something. Thanks.

What do you mean by the clouds had artifacts?

I had created some artifacts in the clouds…

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Gave it a shot, couldn’t get the reds to enhance…but I did manage to get the sky toned a bit more to my liking.
Also cropped it a bit.

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I have tried to make the blues darker using the color equalizer module which allows to to darken or lighten specific colors and tweak there saturation as well. Color zones module works similar for this. I also did a second instance of exposure to darken the top of the image using a gradient mask.


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Could use some more tlc; did some selective red defringing after a lot of heavy processing. Lots of noise still, but too pooped to address it. lol

:slight_smile:

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Your camera may have a depth of field Preview button that allows you to see through the viewfinder or perhaps on the digital display what effect your chosen aperture will have on the finished image prior to taking the shot.
I’m still learning myself and will sometimes take shots of a scene with different aperture settings just to see what happens.

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It’s possible this is the one you actually want … it’s what I use every time for play_raw.

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