Jungle Shots: Learning to Edit Roses in Darktable

lily-da-vine (73)in #gardening • 6 years ago

For awhile when I would take pictures especially of things like flowers I'd get frustrated with the colors getting distorted and washed out. I figured it was something that could be fixed by editing but that was still far off in my future, although needlessly so because it's way easier than I expected. The shot above is the after edit shot, I'll share the original of this one below...

Completely different right? The first one is more realistic and true to what the flower actually looks like.

Here's another edited shot, this was done in Darktable and the photo was originally taken with my Nikon D5500 in automatic settings.

And the nearly flourescent washed out version. Now that I know the basics, I'm not sure I can post another washed out flower photo.

Since switching from RawTherapee I prefer the workflow and layout of Darktable. Soon I'll branch into using gimp as well, which I've only used for logo design in the past.