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When I took it I was convinced it's for the bin (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Nooodel to c/photography

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So this one got some more than just the usual 'adjust contrast, desaturate, increase vibrance' treatment. After seeing what someone made of my fog post with some local contrast etc, I thought I'd experiment a bit. So I first did some work on the overall picture, toning down highlights, increasing ambiance, desaturating and setting the white balance a bit further to the cold side.

But then I added some extra darkening to the shadows of the road to increase its local contrast and lit up the shadowy regions of the mountains. Somehow that makes the image work a lot better now imho.

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[–] ZkhqrD5o 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nice grade man.

[–] Nooodel 1 points 5 days ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Where/when was this? Seems like a cool hike

[–] Nooodel 2 points 5 days ago

Mid December on a skiing trip in the Dolomites (Marmolada Glacier region). Shot from a drone though, so not a place you can reach on foot.

[–] IMALlama 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Nice work, glad you liked the results!

This is a pretty cool scene, did you use your drone for the shot again?

[–] Nooodel 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Also thank you so much for the inspiration with the regional contrast on the other image :) that was the motivation to try out here

[–] IMALlama 1 points 4 days ago

No problem, glad you got a kick out of it. Epic scene.

[–] Nooodel 2 points 5 days ago

Sorry, was busy with work. Yes, shot again on the drone. Was the highest I've ever flown, above 3000m... It's in a Ski-resort in the Dolomites.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What software do you use?

[–] Nooodel 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In this case snapseed. It seems to be the only software apart from Adobe PS that can correctly read the .DNG raw files from my dji mini 3.

For more ambitious projects I preprocess in snapseed, export a high quality jpeg and push that through gimp afterwards

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wow, interesting. Seems odd that any pro editing software would be unable to process a .DNG file

[–] Nooodel 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

If you find one that's not a subscription service and is able to read DNG's weird color correction matrix tell me, I'll be all ears. But so far I had no luck and not for lack of investing time in the search...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I use CaptureOne (it's a sub, but I believe they have a lifetime option; I just didn't want to shell out until I was sure I liked it). If you want to sent me a RAW file, I will give it a go!

[–] Nooodel 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

https://gigamove.rwth-aachen.de/en/download/4991c0c25442db3d7fcc81146772f42b here you are. Sorry for the delay, I caught conjunctivitis and had to limit my screen time as much as possible.

[–] Nooodel 1 points 57 minutes ago

just downloaded the software and gave it a try - same issue as most others. It doesn't ingest the pixel-wise correction matrix and therefore gives an image that is blighted and has a red-shift in the middle, while getting some vignette in the corners...

[–] Nooodel 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's awesome, thank you! I'll do that but it will take a day or two as the easiest way to spot the difference is when shooting an even colored scene and seeing the red tint in the middle.

I'll get back to you with a download link once it's done

[–] Nooodel 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This is the original for comparison