Second try. Still a more or less the same crop but all in all more punchy:
2024-04-06_17-09-46.72_DSC6190_01.nef.xmp (21.3 KB)
2024-04-06_17-09-46.72_DSC6190_01.nef.xmp (21.3 KB)
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@martin.scharnke , did you use some sort of tilt-shift photography here? The vanishing lines that I can draw from the buildings almost seem to show an inverted perspective.
Here is my version (daktable + custom film sim).
Portra400 + Ektarcolor RA4 print
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Puts me in mind of Contrast-Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE). Got this with one click:
For those in the know: block size 63; histogram 128; max slope 5.0. No other adjustments …
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My try with dt 4.6.1. I didn’t crop, because I like the white surf in the foreground.
2024-04-06_17-09-46.72_DSC6190.nef.xmp (9.6 KB)
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In GIMP there is Stress (GIMP>Colors>Tone Mapping>Stress). The only disadvantage is that you have to be patient. Even with a fast computer. The filter gives the best result with an image with the highest precision. (GIMP>Image>Precision).
The CLAHE filter is available in Siril.
@snibgo has an implementation of CLAHE and other neat tricks on his site, though it is primarily Windows batch/CMD oriented scripting.
BTW, I am appreciating the flatter renditions.
After I wrote my CLAHE page, a -clahe option was added to ImageMagick, so that is available on all platforms.
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FWIW, mine was done by a plugin in ‘ImageJ’ now a.k.a ‘Fiji’.
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A good challenge. Thanks!
Here’s my 2 cents, with pre-dev build (lacam16n2) RT 5.10-512-g6b35d3746
My aim was to flatten the dynamic range and make that ocean water a bit more appealing 
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You obviously know Wellington, if you can nominate individual bays! 
This is Lyall Bay, immediatley after my joyflight and time at Wellington International Airport where I also got to delight in the USAF Globemaster visit. WLG is sandwiched between Lyall Bay to the South and Evans Bay to the North.
Yes, it was a southerly breeze.
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That’s a negative (
) - however there is significant foreshortening due to the telephoto effect. EXIF data gives a focus distance of just under 126 metres. I haven’t applied any lens-correction* and certainly no perspective correction, so what you observe may be down to imperfect optics.
- There are two reasons I haven’t applied lens correction:
- I haven’t tweaked my custom settings since the most recent update of lensfun
- This lens usually has very limited need for correction, in my experience, so I haven’t bothered with 1 just yet.
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first version darktable and second version GIMP with posterization and cartoon filter
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