Really like these new edits. To my eye, much more natural.
I’ve been using Darktable for about 5 years (longer?). Long enough to forget LR. There is a learning curve for sure - but once you wrap your head around it - it delivers. The film negative inverter module is also pretty good.
My very subjective feel - I prefer colours of photos on the left. Old edits. Most off them. AM Grocery photo - I prefer new edit. But it is not imporatnt. There are milions of possible outcomes, and these are just two of them.
Totally fair assessments! I don't mind the color so much in the originals, but I have a hard time with the way most modern processors demosaic RAW images. They always seem too "crispy," with a lot of micro-contrast and surface details that are tough to soften without a lot of masking and reduction of clarity. I much prefer a softer, less sharp image overall.
first of all: good choice in picking them photos, well done! i remember the second one (man on the horse) being part of the interview.
second: you should try affinity. it is also free and starts from scratch but you can build layers and masks (like in photoshop). i like darktable but i think i don't use it enough (i didn't watch any tutorials about it, just tried to discover everything myself)
One thing I have noticed in the last year is that the way most screen viewing platforms that are social media driven actually made me hate photography, including my own. More so that, from the film perspective, I would game using film stocks to make the image grab on color and contrast and not necessarily composition. It found me shooting less with more expensive film when I realized really that's not the point of why *I* do photography.
There's something delightful to be said as I'm drifting back into writing and letting photography be a little cryptic diary that even tells on myself when I go back for reviewing long after I thought I was 'done' with an image.
Definitely everything you said rings true to me too - have had a couple of small exhibitions, but rarely enter many competitions and the self promotion doesn't sit quite right for me a lot of the time - although really enjoying doing my substack (but that's more for me than anyone else!).
I'll have to check out Darktable - been using Photoshop since v2...
Really like these new edits. To my eye, much more natural.
I’ve been using Darktable for about 5 years (longer?). Long enough to forget LR. There is a learning curve for sure - but once you wrap your head around it - it delivers. The film negative inverter module is also pretty good.
My very subjective feel - I prefer colours of photos on the left. Old edits. Most off them. AM Grocery photo - I prefer new edit. But it is not imporatnt. There are milions of possible outcomes, and these are just two of them.
Totally fair assessments! I don't mind the color so much in the originals, but I have a hard time with the way most modern processors demosaic RAW images. They always seem too "crispy," with a lot of micro-contrast and surface details that are tough to soften without a lot of masking and reduction of clarity. I much prefer a softer, less sharp image overall.
first of all: good choice in picking them photos, well done! i remember the second one (man on the horse) being part of the interview.
second: you should try affinity. it is also free and starts from scratch but you can build layers and masks (like in photoshop). i like darktable but i think i don't use it enough (i didn't watch any tutorials about it, just tried to discover everything myself)
One thing I have noticed in the last year is that the way most screen viewing platforms that are social media driven actually made me hate photography, including my own. More so that, from the film perspective, I would game using film stocks to make the image grab on color and contrast and not necessarily composition. It found me shooting less with more expensive film when I realized really that's not the point of why *I* do photography.
There's something delightful to be said as I'm drifting back into writing and letting photography be a little cryptic diary that even tells on myself when I go back for reviewing long after I thought I was 'done' with an image.
Definitely everything you said rings true to me too - have had a couple of small exhibitions, but rarely enter many competitions and the self promotion doesn't sit quite right for me a lot of the time - although really enjoying doing my substack (but that's more for me than anyone else!).
I'll have to check out Darktable - been using Photoshop since v2...
I like your choices, I feel drawn in to each image. And it’s interesting to see your “re-edits” side-by-side. Good luck!
Congrats on closing in on 40. Enjoy it.