Time in the Spring

[Stevenson Gawen]

Forde Abbey Gardens near Chard, Somerset. OM-D EM5ii, 14-150mm f4-5.6 at 47mm, f7.1

These gardens are lovely...
Sorry about the slightly laboured title - I kind of like it anyway.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Wonderful, romantic, take and composition, @Stevenson Gawen. And remarkable trees, too. Did you apply some bloom in post?

 

[Ralph Turner]

A beautiful pic, Steve. It has the look of an oil painting about. Glorious!

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

Thanks Gianluca and Ralph - very glad you like it.

Yes, applied a bit of bloom in darktable, using the bloom preset in diffuse or sharpen, with a blurred parametric mask restricting it to the areas around highlights.

 

[Beth Anthony]

this reminds me of a monet painting. beautiful colors and tones, but the light steals the show. gorgeous!

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

this reminds me of a monet painting. beautiful colors and tones, but the light steals the show. gorgeous!

Thanks Beth!

I thought you might all be interested to see the un-edited version, or to be more accurate, the out-of-camera JPEG, just resized. It lacks a little something to me...

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Thanks Beth!

I thought you might all be interested to see the un-edited version, or to be more accurate, the out-of-camera JPEG, just resized. It lacks a little something to me...

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Yes, you did a nice editing, @Stevenson Gawen. Thanks for sharing details about the process.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Yes, applied a bit of bloom in darktable, using the bloom preset in diffuse or sharpen, with a blurred parametric mask restricting it to the areas around highlights.

I’ve no idea what that means, but it does look better than the straight version.

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

I’ve no idea what that means, but it does look better than the straight version.

It means I made the bright areas a bit fuzzy...

 

[Rob MacKillop]

That's more like it!