Gael Varoquaux
Night intrigue at the Louvre pyramids
Two of the Louvre pyramids (in Paris) with a shadow walking in front.
The person walking is actually myself, as there were little passersby. In addition, with a long exposure, passersby were blurry. I actually froze in my walk for the picture. I took the picture using my phone as a remote control for the camera.
I did initial post-processing, in darktable, using a strong local contrast enhancement and two different settings of curves: one fairly neutral and one increasing the contrast to create highlights in the reflections and the sky. On the version of the picture with boosted sky I used a non-local means denoising. I merged these two versions in the gimp with two layers and layer masks, keeping a neutral exposure in most of the photos but adding highlights in the clouds and in the reflections of the person.
Night intrigue at the Louvre pyramids
Two of the Louvre pyramids (in Paris) with a shadow walking in front.
The person walking is actually myself, as there were little passersby. In addition, with a long exposure, passersby were blurry. I actually froze in my walk for the picture. I took the picture using my phone as a remote control for the camera.
I did initial post-processing, in darktable, using a strong local contrast enhancement and two different settings of curves: one fairly neutral and one increasing the contrast to create highlights in the reflections and the sky. On the version of the picture with boosted sky I used a non-local means denoising. I merged these two versions in the gimp with two layers and layer masks, keeping a neutral exposure in most of the photos but adding highlights in the clouds and in the reflections of the person.