was creeping around a marina last night
you know the drill
portrait -> scale pixels -> landscape
something compels me to point the camera at the sky even without color, and every time i actually get to editing them i go "ehh whyyy". we know why, the sky is beautiful. but its hard to capture.
todays theme i guess, not all bangers but heyyy it's Cars.
uneasy framing
day and day
i think i still prefer doing tonecurves in rawtherapee then local contrast in darktable over agx :p #mymethod (theyre pretty similar in end result but my way just feels more predictable and consistent. using rawtherapee to create the shape of the curve then exposure tool works like the pivot and the local contrast stretching finetunes the curve and lets me choose whether i want a grayer more detailed image or a more smooth and high contrasty image which is like the black point white point settings i think but just. wayy more intuitive imo)
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@0x35c these shots were both 1 second exposures, handheld, at 1.7 aperture and 200 ISO (my camera's base ISO, which I never leave). I kept the camera steady for most of the second, then swung it hard near the end. I took like 6 shots doing this and these two were the most pleasing.
In post I gave each shot a custom tone curve to deepen the shadows and brighten most of the rest. Topped it off with some RGB curves to give the image more of a blue/orange contrast. I do my edits in rawtherapee. c:
i genuinely wonder how did you manage to get everything clear while moving the camera for the lights ? (i'm new to photography)
the lights look like scratches on the right, i love that effect! sick colors too