Sunset over the stadium roof

I haven’t done much. Mainly cropped and added a bit orange to the highlights, removed a lens flare. I like the details on the roof and I rather happy how the picture came out (with my cheapest lens, the M.Zuiko 40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R).
Often you go in completely different directions than I can even think off… Let’s see what you make with it

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Rotated and recomposed for thirds, removing stuff too much in the dark and distractions, corrected exposure for the bottom part, pastellized colours with one my fav’ luts, sharpen to maximum.

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I have no idea how to deal with the halo around the sun. I have done what I could to reduce it, but it stubbornly remains.


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I tried to lean a little bit more into the hints of purple in the sky. Maybe a little bit to much :slight_smile:
Then I introduced some glow with diffuse and sharpen and added back some local contrast later.


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It’s not for nothing it’s called “plastic fantastic”!

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I brought out more shadow detail than may be desired for this shot. DT 5.6.
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Maybe amped up for fun…

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With ART 1.26.9


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Greetings. Roberto

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When I first saw this plat raw I thought: Oh no… not another sunset, I’m not very good with these… So applied a Mechalis Menten stretch, and a GHS on the sun, bit more chroma and a little contrast…

But I am feeling ok about my output here… It’s ok in my mind, feel realistic (even though I was not there).


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RT and GIMP

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I’m not too happy with my result. The more advanced methods for Highlight Reconstruction in RT fail with the sun here.


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I think this version handles the transition of the blown-out parts around the Sun best, so far.

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Started with a b&w version - except for the stadium roof.
Then I discovered that removing the b&w step improved unison of the surroundings with the roof…
Removed as much as I believed to be possible to concetrate on - what I believe to be - the subject…


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A possible rendering:


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Had to try this one with rawproc’s ‘fixed’ highlight recovery, where I removed the hard-coded per-channel white points and replaced them with the proper per-image computation:

That, a rather fiddley tone curve and a bit of a crop.

I’m also evaluating my export color, as I think my new laptop might require custom calibration.

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