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[Critique Wanted (sorta)] Help editing images in darktable (immich.blomsquids.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by jwiggler@sh.itjust.works to c/photography@lemmy.ml

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Hello all

I was hoping to get some advice on editing these two photos I took with my OM-1 in hi-res mode. I have pretty limited experience editing in darktable (or editing digital files, at all. in fact, I pretty much suck lol) , and find myself getting burnt out during editing sessions where ill think my image looks good, ill step away, come back and think its not great.

In this case, I'm having trouble getting my edited raw images to look as good (here, in this case, I'm mostly talking sharpness) as the OOC jpeg. I guess Olympus does quite a bit of sharpening? I'm a bit more confident in my colorgrading/saturation/exposure adjustments but for these particular images I feel like I could work on them forever and never be satisfied.

Was wondering if I could get some advice on these images. I've included the raw files, the OOC jpegs, and my lightly edited images in this album. I was hoping to see if anyone would be willing to do a quick edit themselves to see if they are able to make a good image out of these rawfiles, but that's quite a bit of work, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Edit: whoops, i lied. the landscape shot PA172635 is not hi-res, its regular 20MP. I've added two more OOC jpegs and their rawfiles (both hi res) that I selected and thought looked best out of all the photos i took today.

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[–] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Thank you so much! you pointed me in exactly the right direction and now I have a couple edited photos I think I'm happy with it. The trick was watching Boris Hajdukovic's Diffuse and Sharpen video -- seeing him go do his initial edits with Color Balance RGB module gave me some confidence and the idea to just not worry about sharpness -- get the colors right -- then fine tune the sharpening on the church.

So I did that, then I masked the church and did some manual Diffuse and sharpening there (rather than using the presets - I think one of my issues was i would experiment with a preset and it would reset my mask and screw me all up!) and -- well looking back now, maybe its a little oversharpened compared to the OOC jpg, but its not too bad to me!

I did remove some of the atmospheric haze too as you suggested and I think that helped quite a bit.

If you do find time to take a pass at these please let me know! I've added my "final" edits to the album in case anyone is interested. "Final" because I think I need to take a break from this image lol.

Will be watching more of Boris' videos! Thank you again