u/Dubliminal

Obviously there a bit of a crop, and then there's 7 different masks applied here to control various areas of the shot to tame & boost colours and texture.

Global settings:

• Reduce exposure
• Reduce highlights
• Bump up shadows
• Bump up whites
• Nudge down blacks
• Nudge up texture and clarity
• Push down the dehaze
• Tiny nudge on vibrance
• Blue yellow tone curve - dip yellow highlights
• Colour mixer - dropping luminance & saturation on yellow & orange ... mostly
• Colour grading - Balance -40ish. Shadows & mid-tone: pushing the blues
• No denoise. No colour calibration
• Ever so slight vignette

Which one surprised you the most?

My last post here was sassy. I knew it would ruffle feathers. But I'm not above taking the advice on board. So here's my second effort at the same location.

Inevitably there will be detractors and nit-pickers ... and I will probably peep their profiles to see if they can put their money where their mouth/typing-fingers is.

This was a challenging edit to say the least.