Yet another b/w edit (lut comes from ON1 free set)
Wasn’t expecting such a wave
Great shot, went for the protagonist and some mood:
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It looked like a dynamite explosion at first.
Great shot!
Yes, also detail and color information got lost.
Left Capture one, right darktable 3.4.
Here my attempt:
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Cool. this brings out the rainbow on the bottom left. First time I am noticing this.
Hi, I’m new! Thought I might as well start playing with this amazing picture.
I think this image benefits from a 4:3 crop. Makes the splash more prominent and leaves only one tree for scale. I also cropped away the kind of distracting pool of water in the lower right corner.
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Wanted to lift the shadows, proved more challenging than I thought. I messed wtih the filmic curve to get it close, then shaped it with a separate control point curve. Bit too blue, so I added a second white balance on top of as-shot to scooch the blue channel left. Bit of denoise, and voila. In rawproc:
I used Filmulator:
- Exposure Comp +2/3
- Shadow Rolloff Point 0.00790
- Film Area 145.6
- Drama 100
- White Clipping Point 0.345
- Shadow Brightness 0
Deceivingly difficult, I though it wouldn’t be so hard to match your processing but I did not manage to match some aspects of it at all ! Your processing is really heavy handed on the fine detail enhancement and the noise reduction is interfering with some of the wave crashing details.
This exercise as been difficult and I made extensive use of modules in multiple instances with hybrid masking (parametric+curved gradient)
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After trying to mimic your result I gave it a shot just for the fun and discovered an hidden rainbow in your shot (bottom left of the image)
Here is my version
Thanks for the nice picture !
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This is really nice! I’ll have to look at what you did.