I am fascinated with the forms the snow layers take on at the end of winter!
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I am fascinated with the forms the snow layers take on at the end of winter!
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I am not entirely happy with the results, and I had to be careful not to get banding in the greyscale conversion. I think I might install CinePaint and redo the b&w conversion just to compare.
I think I know where you are not "entirely happy". The snow is too grey - but if you pull the curve higher, you are loosing details.
Have you tried a coloured background for the image? A dark red could work better than grey.
1) Have bland, white snow, or
2) Have grey snow with details, or
3) Have white snow with details, but have noticeable grey banding in the snow details.
I chose option 2, but I am not sure if there are ways around the banding problems I had with option 3, or if that is a limitation of working with 8 bits in GIMP.
I never thought about making the background coloured or tinted! That's a good suggestion.
Photographing snow, especially snow in the forest, continues to be a challenge for me.
The problem is the dynamic range of the camera too, not only the 8 bit limit of GIMP.
Did you shoot in RAW? Then you could try to make a pseudo HDR. Develop one image for the sky, one for the snow and one for the wood. And then combine them with masks.
Look at http://meetthegimp.org/episode-025-a-winter-morning/ for how to that if you are not sure.
Actually, the whole issue of colour management confuses me. And since I have red-green colour blindness, I am wondering if it is worth the effort to attempt to master colour profiling.
I haven't tried the pseudo HDR route yet, but several other people have also told me this was the best way to process snow photos, so I guess this is the next step.
Rolf, I have learned more about using the GIMP in the last couple of weeks since discovering your podcasts than I have in the past 10 years of blundering about with it. Many thanks!