Thank you very much. I’ll check it out and try to get used to it when the next photo needs retouching.

https://onecameraonelens.com/2022/08/02/quickly-get-a-workable-image-in-darktable/ seems promising as well. I guess I already figured that out myself at some point but maybe following a guide will show me what I might’ve been doing wrong or in a wrong order or something…

Just a few thousand kilometers off, though I might make it there one day and check it out! :)

Yeah Darktable is the way to go from what I’ve gathered so far. At the very least in terms of freeware. I can tell that it does a lot of things very well and offers endless features. I’ve already played around with it previously and use it exclusively now since I’ve switched my mainOS to Ubuntu and can’t use Lightroom anymore. I did enjoy Lightroom’s pre-sets that are offered by default. Filters and such. It helps getting some inspiration in what way the image could be modified to convey itself better.
I’m sure similar filters exist for Darktable as well but it’s not as much point-and-click as Lightroom I guess.

Do you know if there are camera (manufacturer) specific modules for Darkroom that can be used? Would be nice to 1-click-recreate what my camera did for the .jpg and go from there. I think it’d help me a lot to adjust the image I’ve already evaluated instead of starting ‘from scratch’ regarding pretty much all image data, you know?

Tried something with Darktable. As usual, I got quite frustrated with my ability to change things in a way I feel to be in control of. Well at least monsieur le bird seems to be shown in a less exposed way:

Thank you for the reply.
Moving the sliders of the histogram is the one thing I’ve been able to do myself without ‘messing up’ the image. Will try it for this pic as well.
Working with masks is something that really makes sense for such instances but it kind of feels like cheating to edit this way. Maybe I’m just to hung up on the idea to keep photos close to the real thing, whatever that might be.
Using the .jpg my camera creates already contains lots of adjustments…

I should have the RAW file somewhere. Since editing myself usually ends in disaster… Should I just lower overall exposure until the bird stops appearing overoxposed or should I try lowering highlights separately or something?
Tips would be appreciated.

fitting

Great composition!

Best lingerie-a
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lounging, mommaaaa

What about that parasitic thingy that wobbles your eyes and makes you do things? You’d just need to ward of these pesky birds and refrain from climbing too high, but I bet everything looks funky!

Not sure of the brand name but something that helps you to see pretty things where you are and something that helps you to actively look for pretty things would be my recommendation.

That coat itself looks painted. The simple color, the way it still clings to the body in places while flowing freely and the shadows make it a bit surreal, especially combined with that painting.

Are you me?

What a pretty flower! Thanks for sharing.

It’s a godsend and apparently installable in mobile Firefox, though not searchable or shown as available in the list of mobile extensions

You’re right! Guess they got the concrete texture quite right.

Cheers! I appreciate the small insight into the names that are common to people with some knowledge about these different types.

So far, I might have a chance to name Dohle, Nebekrähe correctly and maybe have a good chance of picking Rabe, rather than Krähe due to its size, and being somewhat right about that.

I’m always thankful if someone can tell me right away what things are called.

Haha Clichées sind dafür da erfüllt zu werden.

Yeah as a kid i thought raven were much bigger and had orange beaks. Rather late I learned that ravens are usually just large crows. Personally, I don’t care much but at least try to learn and use the proper names of things. At least in German, using Krähe seems to be a safe bet in any case.

Nah it’s alright, the RF series is rather niche still and when it’s much more reasonable (price per quality) I might as well use an EF with the adapter. As my always-on lens is the RF 24-240mm (very useful for travel when you don’t know what you’ll do that day), the size&weight of EF 1.4 + adapter would still be quite a bit less.
Apparently, I can rent it via a service for 20 or so bucks a month. That’s fair.

Yeah I can imagine how quickly that got old when tens of comments are just that very same spiel. But still I wonder how I’ve missed that since I’ve spent quite a bit of time on reddit and really enjoyed reading up on these major events of reddit-history.