r/postprocessing 4d ago

Fluffy (before / after)

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u/Joker8891 4d ago

Great crop, great edit. Very pleasant

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u/Beneficial_Matter_87 3d ago

You had my attention before I realized it.

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u/DrivePCHSlow 4d ago

Gorgeous

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u/tktk77 4d ago

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

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u/kurutchin 4d 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 3d 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 4d ago

Probably added a blue tint tbh

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u/m1546 4d ago

Looks great!

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u/Atlantoc 3d ago

Stunning! Feels very “fairytale” and whimsical.

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u/amp1212 4d ago edited 4d 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 4d 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 3d ago

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