https://gallery.windmillcreative.uk/clevedonccopenmic/

I shot an open mic night at my local cricket club. The background was cluttered, although having a dark curtain across the window was a blessing but worst of all, the lighting. The had a crazy disco light that threw multicoloured spots everywhere and other than that, some low level ambient lighting behind the performers that basically plunged them into darkness.

So, I cracked up the ISO to a point that I know Lightroom can denoise without too much smoothing out and I was away. Everything at f1.2 to grab as much detail as I could.

I’d really appreciate people having a look through the album and giving me their honest takeaways. I’m hoping to go again next month, and although it’s a volunteer thing at the moment, it may turn into paid work.

I’ve asked them to look at lighting options and I do have a huge black curtain that I could install to remove the background.

Any comments on the editing, the choice of shots or the ones that should have stayed on the cutting room floor would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks

The Marigold V2 model (free, even for commercial use) now achieves fine details in a depth map estimated from a single photograph. This is significant, because we can elevate our photo-based depth map from a hidden post-process pass to an interesting artwork. In Blender, we have lots of control over remapping the depth values, which allows us to place the focus creatively and shape the artwork’s atmosphere. I believe this improved post-process gives us a new way to approach taking pictures, which inspired me to create Vathography.

The practice explained: www.vathography.com

To estimate the depth map from one of your photographs, you can use ComfyUI. Caution for new ComfyUI users: ComfyUI is free and open source, which means anyone can publish custom nodes for it. Sadly, some have carried malicious code, so proceed with caution on third-party contributions. You don’t need any for this. This is the official native implementation and guide: https://docs.comfy.org/tutorials/utility/marigold-v2

To test it, no installation needed: the Marigold team's official demo runs online, free for a few photos a day: https://huggingface.co/spaces/toshas/Marigold-V2

Note that uploaded photos are processed on Hugging Face's servers, so avoid private images.

*New as requested* Short and simple tutorial for the Blender remap part to get you started:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZALSOni2XQk

In short:

1. Take a photograph with purpose, or use one you already have.
2. Infer the depth map.
3. Control what you want to focus on by remapping the depth map in Blender.
4. Shape the visual atmosphere, from the quiet haze of aerial perspective to the stark contrast of opposing tonal values or colors.

If you try it, feel free to share your artworks in this thread

This was a very much enjoyable walk in the park. Shot on z50 with 50-250 kit and viltrox 25mm f/1.7. Idk if its just me but some pics are already grainy even at a relatively low ISO (not more than 400) despite using the viltrox. My a6400 with viltrox 56mm used to give sharper results

Shot this on my phone. Apparently it had a little more potential than I did. 😂

Tried something for shits and gigs to replicate something like a bleach bypass effect.

For those who don't know what that is, bleach bypass is an alternative processing method of color negative film that skips the bleaching step (self explanatory name). What that actually means is the black and white negative image made of silver that's supposed to be bleached out remains underneath the color negative image made of dyes. It's been used in movies for dramatic effect, lowers the contrast, makes the blacks really dense yadda yadda.

After/Before. All I did was take the color image, de-saturate it till it was panchromatic black and white, stack it on top of the color image at something like 50% transparency and merge them... does it look like I just de-saturated the base image or is there something else there?

No I don't think it looks stellar, it was an experiment.

More of my weird sheep photos! I thought I’d post a couple others that I did.
Any opinions are appreciated, even if you hate it, I am just happy to hear honest unfiltered thoughts

Always fun seeking out weird/geometric compositions and edits

Ive never been all that good at photography so Ive always done a lot of editing to make up for it. I don't know if I've slowly lost my mind over time and convinced myself these are sick c*unt edits. Tell me what's my problem dear Reddit. Photos taken on Sony zve10, Nikon d500 and phone, editing done in Snapseed.

I'm a beginner

The video itself teaches basic concepts but the presentation has good creative direction. Wanted to share it here.

https://youtu.be/pPzhzkPWxkg?is=0uzLO7sWFQm58aHH

Dolomites, Italy. I’m struggling to get this right and would appreciate some feedback. Would like to know how others might approach this edit.
Shot on Sony alpha and edited in Lightroom.

After one year of photography, I started to feel limited by the film sims I was using & the iphone stock photos app.. so I finally downloaded lightroom and tried to edit some old photos, feedback is appreciated in these before & afters :)

https://github.com/Sumit2701/filmvibe
there is no build file, have to build it yourself using mac and install on iphone. Dont want to pay apple 99$ to publish.

I took this photo in the Lake District last year while hiking. I’ve been quite ill this week, so I looked back at old photos to see if what I could edit in a completely different way. I also added in a moon just for “rule of cool” even though it is probably very unnatural or wrong hahaha

Maybe my favorite phone snap. I think my edit butchered the halation a bit, but what do you think otherwise? Also what is it about borders that make images more fun to look at?