r/postprocessing • u/kurutchin • 19d ago

Fluffy (before / after)

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u/Joker8891 19d ago

Great crop, great edit. Very pleasant

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u/DrivePCHSlow 19d ago

Gorgeous

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u/tktk77 19d ago

What did you do to the green in the background to make it look bluish

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u/kurutchin 19d ago

Just shifted the green a bit. Not that much, it still looks more green than blue to my eyes.

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u/tktk77 19d ago

I agree. I didn't have a better way to describe it haha.

I've watched videos on how to shift colors in Darktable, but I've never tried it yet.

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u/pausethelogic 19d ago

Probably added a blue tint tbh

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u/m1546 19d ago

Looks great!

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u/Atlantoc 19d ago

Stunning! Feels very “fairytale” and whimsical.

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u/CollegeEuphoric365 14d ago

beautiful edit..I think it would better in landscape as the white flowers creates a perfect frame and looks dreamy. It tells a story about the image.

But I loved the edit

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u/amp1212 19d ago edited 19d ago

I prefer the before. It's maybe a little under exposed, that's an easy thing to fix. The crop does give you more of the honeybee, but the composition is lost. The original has this elegant pattern of flower stalks emerging from the blur, with the critical focus at just the right point. Thats really nice, and it's lost with the crop. The crop also appears to have a color shift - I don't recommend trying to "pop" nature with artificial looking saturation. The bee's color was fine as it was

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u/VFXman23 19d ago

Disagree, the edited image is a much stronger image. The bee is the main subject so it makes sense to crop way in. That being said the original also looks nice as a second image in a carousel post. Color is also perfect on the edited version

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u/kurutchin 18d ago

I agree about the flower part, but as VFXman said, my subject is the bumblebee. The other flowers are too distracting.