Sunset Indecision

JimFox

JimFox

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Is it a sunset? Is it raining? Or both?

Somewhere in New Mexico from 2 days ago. I was hailing a trailer to my sisters house in Colorado from California. I didn't want to exit too much for side trips but when I saw he clouds being lit up as the sun was setting, I had to take an exit.

iPhone 17 Pro

All comments are welcome,

Jim

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BlackRockArt

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JimFox said:
Is it a sunset? Is it raining? Or both?

Somewhere in New Mexico from 2 days ago. I was hailing a trailer to my sisters house in Colorado from California. I didn't want to exit too much for side trips but when I saw he clouds being lit up as the sun was setting, I had to take an exit.

iPhone 17 Pro

All comments are welcome,

Jim

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Jim, splendid! Love pit stops.

Oli[Q
 
xpatUSA

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Wow!

Histogram Equalization could really bring out those clouds- can demo, if OK.

Pity about Apple's hill-top strong halo.

Could be fixed. For example, make a mask: edge detection > threshold black and white > edit mask so only the halo is white, all else black. Maybe blur the mask halo slightly. I'll try that in the GIMP.
 
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JimFox

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xpatUSA said:
Wow!

Histogram Equalization could really bring out those clouds- can demo, if OK.

Pity about Apple's hill-top strong halo.

Could be fixed. For example, make a mask: edge detection > threshold black and white > edit mask so only the halo is white, all else black. Maybe blur the mask halo slightly. I'll try that in the GIMP.
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Thanks so much, If you play with it, for sure post it.

Some of that halo could be on me, I edit my photos from my phone in Photoshop Express on my phone, and have noticed a lack of sharpness when downrezzing to post here. So I had increased the Texture and Sharpness to help keep things sharp. This was less then 30 seconds sharpening, I could have masked the ground too thinking back.

I photographed this same scene also with my Nikon Z8, I need to pull that up and process that one for reals.
 
xpatUSA

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Thanks - I had a play yesterday but can't upload from my computer to this site (new computer, no on-line access to my FTP site yet).

Later ...
 
xpatUSA

xpatUSA

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Maybe this works ...

drive.google.com/file/d/1nlOD3x4ywi3gzqKagNcJV_e14ORS-pSh/view?usp=sharing

right-click>'open link in new tab'

Top left is Contrast-Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization ## with default setting

Top right is Equalization in the GIMP.

Bottom left is same as Top right, but with the halo masked and some hue/chroma/lightness adjustment.

Bottom right is histogram Equalization using the G'MIC plugin for the GIMP.

All a bit OTT for illustration ...

## https://www.perplexity.ai/search/clahe-image-processing-YaRJwIIoSU6CmPddDTa49Q
 
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JimFox

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xpatUSA said:
Maybe this works ...

drive.google.com/file/d/1nlOD3x4ywi3gzqKagNcJV_e14ORS-pSh/view?usp=sharing

right-click>'open link in new tab'

Top left is Contrast-Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization ## with default setting

Top right is Equalization in the GIMP.

Bottom left is same as Top right, but with the halo masked and some hue/chroma/lightness adjustment.

Bottom right is histogram Equalization using the G'MIC plugin for the GIMP.

All a bit OTT for illustration ...

## https://www.perplexity.ai/search/clahe-image-processing-YaRJwIIoSU6CmPddDTa49Q
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Thanks for those examples, it's a lot of great ways to work on this image, I think I like #4 the best.
 
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