IMG_8336.cr2.xmp (11.6 KB)
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Here is my take:
Modules used: exposure, tone equalizer, filmic, and local contrast (with parametric mask on midtones)
For toneequalizer: I wanted to compress the highlights only. As the sky and leaves are very interleaved, to avoid halos we can:
- increase feathering
- use a very small radius to avoid smoothing leaves and sky too much together
- use a very big radius so that halos are large enough to be unnoticable
To fix halos, we can also play on the curve, to avoid too big gaps between EVs
I used a radius of 1%, set filter diffusion to 5 to smooth larger details as well, and increase feathering to 100.
This is the mask without smoothing:
This is the mask I get with these parameters:
This is the mask I get if I play only with feathering (still gives a decent result on the sky, which is the part I wanted to smooth to compress highlights. If I wanted to lighten shadows as well, this would be more problematic for local contrast):
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