great guidance with a lot of inspiration for working with darktable. I think, copying 'white' areas from canvas into a scene is a little bit critical, but in most situations helpful. Thanks for your comprehensive videos. Greetings from Hamburg, Germany Michael
Re: the Ullswater image and using the contrast equaliser module to give 'a slightly hazy softness', I would have been inclined to use a gradient mask to apply the effect to the more distant fells especially with this particular landscape which has a nice viewpoint that lends itself to this effect. Another idea on similar lines is to use the haze removal in a negative mode, again with a gradient mask. Just my three penneth 😀. Re cow portrait, nice demo of the retouch tool. Thanks.
It is very important to get the white balance correct. I suggest you to use colorcalibration CAT module and get the colors centered around the white spot in the middle to start with.
Correct white balance and accurate white balance are different things. White balance is a creative tool like any other setting - I set it so the image looks how I want it 🙂
The landscape ended up being beautiful. I think the removal of the corner-cow would have been possible within the original image if you had made 2 or 3 partial replacements using the healing AND the clone tool, the latter to leave a more invisible separation to the grass. You would also have maintained the tone of the sky. Alternatively after having enlarged the canvas you could have cloned the sky to cover the sharp edges of the original image creating a wider mono-colored source to work with. I am theorizing as I don't have the image.
Firstly congratulations on passing the 2k subscriber milestone. I have found your videos to be really interesting and helpful. What would really help is if you could make a raw file available for download so we could have a go at the edit.
I have been enjoying your videos on Darktable. I have one frustrating question.... How do you get into that slide-over "comparison mode" that you do at the end of your processing?
Pop out the left panel. At the top click "Take snapshot". Underneath is your history stack. Click any previous point in the stack, then click the snapshot you just took. The handle will appear on your image that you can drag back and forth between the two "points in time".
@@DarktableLandscapes ok thanks! Yes I understand, using these kind off apps it is hard not to fall in the trap of making photos for others and likes and not for you
great guidance with a lot of inspiration for working with darktable. I think, copying 'white' areas from canvas into a scene is a little bit critical, but in most situations helpful. Thanks for your comprehensive videos.
Greetings from Hamburg, Germany
Michael
Hi I really like your videos thanks a lot!
Happy to hear that!
For what it's worth, I like these two part videos in which you're doing more than one type of edit. Thanks for showing us this.
Re: the Ullswater image and using the contrast equaliser module to give 'a slightly hazy softness', I would have been inclined to use a gradient mask to apply the effect to the more distant fells especially with this particular landscape which has a nice viewpoint that lends itself to this effect. Another idea on similar lines is to use the haze removal in a negative mode, again with a gradient mask. Just my three penneth 😀. Re cow portrait, nice demo of the retouch tool. Thanks.
Amazing Tutorials, simply love your Videos!
Was also nice to see the edit of an animal, since i mostly take photos of Wildlife
Thanks! If you have a look back through my videos there are a couple more animals; they're always in the thumbnail so they should stand out 😊
I have not used the contrast equalise before. But after watching your videos I have started to use it more 😊
That's great!
Very effective edit to the landscape picture! I think I need to experiment with Color Balance RGB more.
@@btiphotography5292 it's super powerful! My last video showed how it can be used almost exclusively to process a photo 😄
It is very important to get the white balance correct. I suggest you to use colorcalibration CAT module and get the colors centered around the white spot in the middle to start with.
Correct white balance and accurate white balance are different things. White balance is a creative tool like any other setting - I set it so the image looks how I want it 🙂
The landscape ended up being beautiful.
I think the removal of the corner-cow would have been possible within the original image if you had made 2 or 3 partial replacements using the healing AND the clone tool, the latter to leave a more invisible separation to the grass. You would also have maintained the tone of the sky. Alternatively after having enlarged the canvas you could have cloned the sky to cover the sharp edges of the original image creating a wider mono-colored source to work with. I am theorizing as I don't have the image.
Firstly congratulations on passing the 2k subscriber milestone. I have found your videos to be really interesting and helpful. What would really help is if you could make a raw file available for download so we could have a go at the edit.
I have been enjoying your videos on Darktable. I have one frustrating question.... How do you get into that slide-over "comparison mode" that you do at the end of your processing?
Pop out the left panel. At the top click "Take snapshot". Underneath is your history stack. Click any previous point in the stack, then click the snapshot you just took. The handle will appear on your image that you can drag back and forth between the two "points in time".
Do you post your photos somewhere like flickr or instagram?
When I remember, I post some to 500px.com/p/northaway . I ditched Instagram a long time ago, I felt it was affecting my creativity in a negative way.
@@DarktableLandscapes ok thanks! Yes I understand, using these kind off apps it is hard not to fall in the trap of making photos for others and likes and not for you