Radford Folly towards Stonehouse...take 2539

[Bololoco]

Apologies for uploading the same scene yet again, although I do try and make each one different, even if it's marginal.

[blu-by-u]

What did you do on the post processing? You have a few dust spots that needs to be cleaned.

[Bololoco]

Yeah. Sorry about the dust spots. I should have done that first.

I put the image through the haze removal tool, then through the tone mapping tool (I have about 50 presets personally made by me). I choose the one that I think suits the image best and tweak it if necessary. I also added a HSL layer, boosted the saturation over the entire range of colours until it becomes too bright, then I reduced individual colours to bring it back into the more normal realms of colour.

I hope the overall effect is somewhere between natural and unnatural but definitely manipulated.
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[Phill D]

Interesting, 50 presets? As someone who has no presets I find this quite a surprise. How do you choose which one to use? For me each fIle is processed from scratch although I do sometimes try the previous settings first on similar images.

[blu-by-u]

That's the thing. With that non saving of presets, we cannot replicate what was done.

[Bololoco]

Interesting, 50 presets? As someone who has no presets I find this quite a surprise. How do you choose which one to use? For me each fIle is processed from scratch although I do sometimes try the previous settings first on similar images.

These are presets i've made myself. You can see a thumbnail preview of each preset in a side panel, I scroll through these and choose something close to what I think suits the picture, then I often tweak it as desired. I am also adding more presets as I go along, so my 50 will soon be 150. The only issue I have here, is that Affinity doesn't allow you to move individual presets from one folder to another, so easy cataloguing isn't possible.

Once this is done, I often tweak it again in other areas of the software. Affinity is quite an indepth program, offering a lot of non destructive effects, so you can usually turn things on and off at will.

You can also save your effect settings as presets, although I have only done this a couple of times but it's handy if you achieve a particular effect and want to repeat it elsewhere.

I have occasionally used the presets that come with Affinity, basic ones like "sharpening" or "natural" and there's a "black and white" one i've made after watching a colour science video on YouTube but tweaking is the norm.

[Phill D]

Thanks for the explanation, I'm sure Lightroom has a similar feature. Might give it a try one day when I find some time to play.

[Bololoco]

What did you do on the post processing? You have a few dust spots that needs to be cleaned.

Dust spots gone.

[blu-by-u]

Sensor or pic?

[BDennis]

The spots I can see in the first image look like birds unless the image is now updated?

[BDennis]

Some of the “dust spots” look like they could be birds to me? The blooming things fly about messing up the sky, I often clone them out!

A moody image for sure. The processing here on the sky reminds me of one of the Olympus / OM art filters - Dramatic Tone.

I have made a few presets for some situations in CaptureOne, like removing DxO over sharpening and some quick light treatment of scenics as a starting point.

Bill