Add drama to your landscape photos with Darktable - #8 Misty Trees on Rydal Water

[@istuff4137]

That natural split toning is lovely.

[@RawnakChoudhury-bo8oj]

Your videos are a pleasure to watch

[@emmypuss4533]

That was a pain for you loosing the audio at the end. Another interesting and informative video - thanks.

[@selwynleacock6601]

Wow, fantastic 👏

[@tompatton2086]

Outstanding processing skills and a pleasure to watch. Out of curiosity, do you practice on these images beforehand or is this the first time working with them?

[@DarktableLandscapes]

Thanks! I have a quick run through beforehand to avoid big pauses where I'm trying to work out what I want to do 😄

[@lechindianer]

Such a fantastic edit, liked and subscribed

[@joel.659]

After watching a few of your videos, I'd say I really appreciate the way you process your raw images - as an inspiration and technical how-to for me as a not-yet/future Darktable user. Thank you very much. I'd enjoy your videos even more if your microphone didn't pick up those keystrokes and mouse clicks so prominently. Maybe you could muffle those sounds by putting a towel or something under your keyboard and mouse pad?

[@DarktableLandscapes]

Thank you Joel, that's great to hear. If you watch my latest video, you should find that the keystrokes and clicks are gone - I picked up a mic boom in the Prime Day sale 🙂

[@bernym4047]

Another very nice work flow demo. As a matter of personal taste, I would have used a square crop and taken off the right side. I found it distracting and my eye keeps wandering over to that side, especially after you darkened the top right. I realise that would probably have removed the third tree but I think that over eggs the pudding.

[@DarktableLandscapes]

@@bernym4047 as it happens I took a couple of tighter shots that are just those two trees. The composition works, it just has a little less depth I think.

[@tonyb2760]

Not sure if I'm fond of the dark upper right corner, it's a bit dark for my taste and not trying to criticize, but you left the reflection of the wooden structure in the water so the reflection doesn't match the shore , other than that, it's a fantastic edit and I thank you for making these videos

[@DarktableLandscapes]

Good catch! Should've looked for that.

[@pieterzanen6776]

A question on your workflow. I see that you often change the order in the pixel pipeline by moving the D&S local contrast upwards and place it above sigmoid. The DT manual recommends users to leave the order alone. Reshuffling "should only be done by experienced users who understand the impact this will have on the image". So my question is what is the advantage of moving the D&S local contrast and place it later in the pipeline.

[@DarktableLandscapes]

Hi Pieter! The simple answer for me is I usually prefer the way it looks. Darktable is a very powerful, "technical" image signal processing tool, but for me photography is primarily an art form. So I am not too worried about the exactitudes of the pipeline so much as "do I like how the image looks?". Of course I'm not saying that everyone must do it my way; everyone should experiment to find their own preferences.