This is the northern hemisphere, just a picture I took in the summer and found now while cleaning up my image folders

Found this image when cleaning up my SD card. It’s a small local flooded gravel pit. The color of the water is natural and comes from the limestone gravel that the Alps rivers and glaciers left here over the millenia.

Yeah, if you like playing with compositions they are a great tool :)

I use a DJI mini 3, changed the rotors to new ones that have a bit more lift and make less noise, added a polarization filter and thereby all in all upgraded it for 30 bucks compared to out of the factory configuration.

My thoughts: I absolutely love it. You see my complaints about the weird raw file format that is hard to process properly but apart from that it’s so very nice. It is small mobile, the controls work excellent and the only regret I have is not spending the extra money to get the pro version that would have had the nice follow modes for shooting video.

Mostly I use it for making outdoor videos when hiking, biking or paddling and it is bringing me lots of joy :) Have not found a good video service yet (tried the fediverse version but didn’t perform well, don’t like YouTube), otherwise there would be about as many nice outdoor video shots from me as there are photos ^^

Thank you :)

Hmm, I read a thread on darktable about it. The devs said the problem with that kind of Pixel-based correction is that it’s running counter to all their data processing and they’d basically have to rewrite their raw processor from scratch. I totally get it that that’s a lot to ask from an open source team, so no complaints there.

Already through most of the tips in this list,

• the dji drone provides DNG files
• tried affinity and rawtherapee, both without success, same problem

The x-rite color checker is something I’ve ever heard of before though, I’ll give it a shot, thanks!

just downloaded the software and gave it a try - same issue as most others. It doesn’t ingest the pixel-wise correction matrix and therefore gives an image that is blighted and has a red-shift in the middle, while getting some vignette in the corners…

https://gigamove.rwth-aachen.de/en/download/4991c0c25442db3d7fcc81146772f42b here you are. Sorry for the delay, I caught conjunctivitis and had to limit my screen time as much as possible.

If you find one that’s not a subscription service and is able to read DNG’s weird color correction matrix tell me, I’ll be all ears. But so far I had no luck and not for lack of investing time in the search…

In this case snapseed. It seems to be the only software apart from Adobe PS that can correctly read the .DNG raw files from my dji mini 3.

For more ambitious projects I preprocess in snapseed, export a high quality jpeg and push that through gimp afterwards

what a beautiful shot!

thanks for clarifying, will remember to make a better description next time :)

Originally, I believed that I can’t build an HDR image from the mini-3 AEB-shots, as somehow HDR from JPEGs seems to not be a good idea, and apart from Photoshop there’s no software around that fully understands the DNG format of the more modern DJI drones. Then I found that I can just put them in gimp and manually build the HDR part. That meant that quite some shots I’ve taken last year could be rescued :)

I like your composition, the dramatic clouds, the path, the clear subject in the middle, the outlook on where the hike goes, great photo!

Someone asked the other day ‘why so photoshopped’, when I basically did nothing to the image’. The commenter was downvoted heavily and I thought that’s not good. I liked the discussion tbh. So I thought more transparency would be good on what I do with the images. I only do this for fun, so don’t have anything to hide

Feel free to make it one

Edited the title

Wasn’t sure whether you’d get tired of the joke, so I left out the ‘in Slovenia’.

I tried that but found that it is still too unpopulated. The instances I found just had posts by the same five people. But I agree, the software is great, it just lacks an audience :)