Volterra, Italy

Really nice picture @age

This is my first semi serious try with ART, thank you @agriggio

The perspective correction and a way to remove a bit of bluish color cast on the side of the church are really really nice.

I think a bit of a darkening-contrast curve on the upper left side of the photo could have been nice (is there a way to do so apart from Gimp?)

I do miss a bit capture sharpening, i was starting to really enjoy it on rt :joy:

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RT 5.7 + Gimp

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Hi,

Sure, there are many… e.g. color correction or local contrast

for basic usage, RL deconvolution sharpening in ART is not very far from capture sharpening. ART has no corner boost yet, but it will be available in 1.1 (I hope)

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darktable 3.0.0

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My attempt using ART.

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Here is my (rather late) attempt with PhotoFlow:

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What I have used:

  • shadows/highlights to compress the dynamic range
  • tone mapping + RGB curves to re-introduce some contrast
  • enhanced USM sharpening
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Most if not all of the entries have sharpening. My problem with them is that it doesn’t seem distributed naturally: some areas are super crunchy whereas others are soft and pasty (e.g., left wall in front of vine growth).

Fantastic shot and location. Do you happen to have the address, or geo location? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Although I have been downloading and playing with Play Raw images I never uploaded anything. So this will be my first contribution…

darktable 3.0.0

volterra.italy.panasonic.dc-lx100m2.rw2.xmp (7.6 KB)

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Very close to the scene how i remember it

No and I’m not anymore in that italy’s region sorry :slightly_smiling_face: :upside_down_face:

A little late to the party, may be a tad too heavy on the sharpening, but here’s my take:

P1000689_01.RW2.xmp (9.3 KB)

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The dynamic range of the raw image was enormous, so I created three .tif files in RT - one standard, one for highlights and one for shadows. Blended the three using Enblend. I put the result into Hugin and corrected the perspective. Then, in GIMP, I played with luminosity masks and finally applied a slight amount of sharpening to the .jpg, using wavelet decompose (duplicating level 2 of 5 at about 40% opacity).

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Here is my take using darktable.


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First attempt in Darktable. Pushed it slightly too far:


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Inspired by Davids work combining multiple TIFFs I created two different versions in Darktable - one for the highlights, another for the subject/shadows. Blended in Photoshop using Multiply and Layer Mask. The results are so much nicer that this will be my default method now for any wide dynamic range image. Also makes it easier in Darktable, not having to worry about blowing highlights whilst maximising detail elsewhere.

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P1000689.RW2 SH.xmp (73.6 KB)

@gaaned92
Very impressive job recovering the highlights on that left wall. What methods did you use?

Same here, I tried to match your highlight recovery but did not came close to it ! which software do you use ?

@clind @Soupy
I use ART from @agriggio

You can have a look here fom threads with ART flag or go to
https://bitbucket.org/agriggio/art/wiki/Home

On this page you will find different locations to download the SW.

@agriggio made a very fine job to simplify and organise the tools such as to simplify the workflow

I mainly used tone equalizer, tone curve, “highlight reconstruction/color propagation”, dynamic range compression (slight). Not sure it is the best way to reach the result.

@gaaned92 I’m intrigued enough to try to compile the sources (no package provided for gentoo) but I don’t think I’ll ditch Darktable though :slight_smile: