We have a bunch of my pictures in our apartment, mostly of people. But we have so far failed to get a large print that we like. It should be something abstract and calm, printed on a 1,20x0,60m canvas. After a lot of searching through our catalogue, we settled on the following picture:
We already got a smaller print proof of this, and the picture here is the adjusted version after the proof. I’ve actually tried various rendering in various raw editors, including Lightroom and Capture One, but in this instance, Darktable clearly came out on top for a detailed job like this. There’s just so much control here that’s missing elsewhere (but we can maybe discuss that elsewhere).
I want to be very honest here, I absolutely hate the Chernobyl-colored water in the original image. Tried to quickly replace it like this which isn’t perfect or good by any means but maybe illustrates how adjusting the hue of the water could improve the image (given enough time and skill neither of which I have):
It’s interesting how different the waves and the sky behave when editing. There’s a balance to be struck between their brightnesses, and their internal contrasts.
Also note how the left side gets a tad darker, especially in the sky. And how the water loses a bit specularity towards the right edge.
