I owed you my version of the photo that I didn’t post in the first place.
I have only partially succeeded in my attempt to give more spatial depth to the scene and more importance to the little mountain ash tree (moreover creating a version that has something fake). I still have to learn a lot about Darktable.
Thanks for your collaboration.
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@Brunolas981 thank you. Your development looks similar to mine in many ways.
I suppose the master image wasn’t good enough to play with. The green area, the second layer, is irrecoverable anyway, both when you want to enhance it and when you want to diminish it.
What I was really looking for from the beginning when I posted this Play Raw was to know if one can programmatically achieve some sort of depth contrast. I mean, in RAW editing softwares you get different ways to obtain contrast and local contrast, but they all work in the 2-dimensional space of the original pixels, not in a 3-dimensional depth. Maybe only a soon to come artificial intelligence will be able to do this.
I’m novice here, but since this is your first time posting in pixls.us a big welcome to you!
@Thomas_Do Thanks to you. I’m new here, but one thing that struck me in the comments of this community is the fact that when someone posts a Play Raw image he is the one that is thanked. I think that the ones who post a comment with their own edits of the image should be thanked. They (you) are those really contributing to the overall discussion.
I learn from you, not vice versa.
But without kind donation of raws nothing would be achieved. So, we need both sides.
The beauty of Play Raw is it is a win win situation where we all learn. Seeing the different interpretations, workflows and techniques teaches us all. In another Play Raw image I learnt about the detail threshold slider which allows to sharpen just the detail so as not to increase noise and this same slider can be used to avoid softening detail when denoising. This has revolutionized my workflow and improved my edits.
Another bonus is getting to see some beautiful parts of the world.
Thank you @Jose_Figueres for you nice interpretation. You inspired me to try a different edit:
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I have been intimidated by this image, for some reason, but tonight I decided to give it a shot. dt 4.2.1
Thank you to all that contributed to this Play Raw.
When I took this photo I was shooting here and there without thinking too much. It was a casual family tour when you don’t have the time to think. But still I felt something when I saw this scene with 3 planes of depth (the little tree, the green meadows and the distant mountains surrounded by low clouds) one on top of each other.
Probably it reminded me of some oriental art.
For the Chinese, pictorial space was organised according to strict rules of recession. The view point was high above the ground, the upper elements distant and the lower ones near. Recession in space was implied not in the drawing but in a codified system of ‘mist recession’ or ‘recession of depth’ – essentially overlapping layers of planes, like stage flats.
Source: Space – The Final Frontier: The Problem of Depth in Japanese Prints. | Toshidama Japanese Prints
What I wanted to understand from this Play Raw was “How can I emphasize the depth of a landscape with editing software?”
I was not interested in local contrast here, the opposite: not a 2D enhancement, but a 3D one.
My photo is really bad, sorry.
BTW, I don’t know if Ansel Adams had in mind the art from the Orient when he took this photograph.
Source: Ansel Adams - Wikipedia
