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From my final photowalk through Galataport. Security guards there told me photography with 'pro' cameras was verboten. I used to get shooed away from the contruction site when they were building the thing as well, so the tradition continues. Anyway, yesterday was a national holiday here, so flags went up everywhere including that weird building there that looks like it's made with shipping containers. I got the part with the occluded crescent in another frame, but that has tiny distractions in it that I didn't notice at shoting time. This one has no curves but is otherwise 'clean' as shot.
One of the things I want to do is to get rid of pirated software, in the photo editing realm of course, I use to use mostly ligthtroom ( from pirate bay ) and I kinda want to not use it any more. So I searched for alternatives ( free ) and there was 2 main software's Raw Therapee and Darktable. I Chose Darktable because ( at least that is what every one is saying ) it is gives much greater editing options. With that said I started to read it's manual and watch some video tutorials, and I can say that it is a quite good opponent to lightroom actually, it does basically the same things as lightroom but the difference is the layout, and to be honest I kinda like that darktable has more options ( in light and color) than Lightroom. Lightroom is more of a easier to learn at the beginning and it offers faster editing, Darktable it is complicated ( a little bit ) but in the long run ( I've been started to use it for 4 day now 😅 ) it is just as powerful if not even more powerful than lightroom. In Darktable I get the impression that I actually edit a photo. In lightroom I have a impression that I edit it for instagram of facebook. But I might change opinions in time who knows. Comparing the fact that Lightroom cost allot of money and Darktable just a internet conection for download.... I seriously believe that darktable is the winner ( at this moment at least ). Thanks for the visit and have a nice day! 😊
A close-up of a colorful lily photographed at the Enabling Garden in Altoona, Iowa with a Lensbaby Sweet 50 lens. I used F4.0 on this shot, so I did lose some sharpness on a few of the stamen, but I thought it was still a decent photo.
Lensbaby Sweet 50 optic, set at F4.0
Composer Pro II with a Canon EF mount
No bend or macro lens/tube used
Developed with Darktable 4.8.0
not really a beauty but a tough little one I found this morning
Winter aconite - Winterling - Eranthis hyemalis
Sony Alpha 1 with FE 90mm F2.8 Macro
re-edited photo from 2019 HSS
I didn't have a great photo editing program in 2019 so I took this favorite photo and edited it in darktable. since it was a jpg not raw some edits didn't work as well, but adding contrast and filmic and chroma and blurring the ground area a little a really added some character to my original and made Bob stand out!
Image processed under the scene-referred paradigm with Darktable from RAW. You can read additional technical information in my profile (about section).
It was blended by stacking two shots, one was a 30 seconds shot and the other a one-second shot to get the moon without burning the area around it.
Here you can the source shots (JPG camera version):