flexing my color editing muscles so they don't fatigue. and trying to get df shots to look better. (i think i had rly forgotten that choice of demosaicer matters and that if i don't hit the photo with some noise reduction then my saturation blasting will make sure that noise eats the whole image loll)
catching up on editing the many photos i took on this trip so far, here's 3.
windsor pastoral
the nikon df kinda mostly works (except when it doesnt lol)?? mirror locks up with an increasing frequency the higher the shutter speed it shoots at. uhhhhhh i dunno Mechanical Failure. enjoy these shots i took with it while trying to figure out wtf going on after retrieving it up here in the north
i could probably do an entire month of just editing the backlog. ended up focusing todays no-sleep energy on a newsletter my friends and i are starting so backlog it is.
edit image in darktable (1)
export as 16 bit greyscale tif, import to gimp, image > mode > rgb
create new image, fill it with gradients including greyscale black to white, go to the palette menu, import palette from that, sort palette
go back to imported image, select newly created palette, colors > map > palette map
your greyscale image now has colors inserted into it based on an algorithm i dont fully undesrtand (2, 3).
came across this tool in my quest for introducing false color to a greyscale image to cover grey tones lost in the export to 8bit jpg from higher bit depth raws. this doesn't end up doing that, but it looks pretty cool
from december
from december
from december
my df might be ready to come back home soon, repair guy says it seems good, he's gonna test it thoroughly tuesday, then it's in the mail if all goes well!
from december
from december, dunno why i didn't like this one at the time, it's alright
from december
from december
the colors on this shot were really good, but i feel the monochrome carries more emotion
i like the slight off-center angle and the general balance of shapes, but the top and bottom bother me. In the uncropped shot i get the very bottom of the door frame for a few pixels and it produces a distracting jagged line, however cropping it out now the lines of the door lead your eye out of the frame, and the lines running along the top are in a similar situation, they distractingly converge with the edge of the frame. if i was maybe a foot further back when i took this shot the edges would've been much more manageable.
more old photo
mirror fun
last update for a while, on vacation and the Df's shutter mechanism died today
photophoto
canada again
poem
