Snake Valley in Twin Falls, Idaho

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I have been struggling to ‘recover’ this poorly exposed image and this is the best version I have so far.

Picture taken from the famous bridge over the valley where base jumping is not only permitted but even recommended by the local Tourist Office. But no jumps for me.

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A quick attempt in DT 5.6

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I took the saturation down and tried to even out the exposure. I took a few minutes to play with the sky colours - a lot of possibilities there.

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I think your sky is clipping to yellow and cyan?
I’ve reduced contrast around the edges but that might not achieve the effect I was going for… after all that custom DorS local contrast enhancement, too


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darktable 5.6. No AI tools used.


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Not sure I am offering anything original, but here was mine:


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It’s been a bit since I’ve had time to do any editing, and it shows!


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Tried to balance out the darks and lights. Also did some cleanup stuff. :slight_smile:

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Edited with Ansel:

Cheers.

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What a difficult file to work with. tried to make the sky more blue, but did not succeed well enough i think.


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and a slight change after lunch


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I was there 3000 days ago and I can tell that Fenny’s ‘before lunch’ edit is so far the closest to reality…

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the closest to reality or the farthest from reality…confused. I hope the first

Sorry… I meant “closest to”…

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ART 1.26.6


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Nice picture!

Is it right that the focus distance was .61m?

My take… having no knowledge of what this scene looked like… :slight_smile:


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Maybe the camera picked up the distance to the bridge guardrail ?

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