Post Processing Challenge. 6th May 2017

Hi, here's another photo for you to play with, It is an unprocessed Fuji Raw file just converted to jpeg. Resolution is still as taken 4896 x 3264 pixels.

I will not be around next weekend so if anyone else would like a go it's all yours.

Edited in PSE 14, cropped, lens flare, light and colours adjusted.

I first straightened the horizon and corrected for a little bit of barrel distortion (horizons in seascapes seem to be especially noticeable to me, and probably to most people, as to level and distortion). Next, I cropped the image to give the boat placements more balance, then cloned out the partial image of the one black boat on the right. I converted to black and white and increased contrast using curves.

Hi, interesting to see how Ken & Glenn have approached this photo.

I used a combination of Lightroom 5, PSE10 & Silver Efex. Straightened horizon, cropped, cloned out two boats and a buoy. Grung high contrast high grain applied in Silver Efex Pro2.

 

I'm new to this. Where can I download the RAW file?

Hi, the source photo is in jpeg format due to the problem converting Raw files which are unique to camera make and models.

Click on the top photo and it will open at full resolution, right click on the photo and choose "Save image as". Then save to a suitable place on your computer and open in the editing program of your choice.

I hope this helps and I look forward to your result. Do with it what ever takes your fancy there are no rules................Gerald.

OIC thanks. I was searching everywhere for the RAW.

Capture One Pro 10.1 + NIK Color Efex Pro 4

Several nice interpretations. I straightened the horizon and stared at it for 20-minutes, coming up with no brilliant ideas, I gave up. I see that I gave up too soon. Next time...

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In PSE15: leveled horizon, adjusted levels slightly, cropped slightly from left and more of the sky

 

In Color Efex: applied graduated neutral density filter, decreased warmth, adjusted contrasts (pro contrast), and added fog (graduated fog)

 

In PSE: 15% increase in saturation

Excellent exercise, Gerald.

Just average CMYK curves procedure plus making the lights blue in RGB curves and saturating in lab curves.

 

This one just for fun, contrary situation.

 

Igor, full-blue works for me.

 

I think that the orange one ended up with some halo in a few spots, such as the bow of the commercial boat. Still, it's interesting to look at that image, pretending not to know its source, and realize how believable it is. Given the right sun, clouds, etc. that could have happened.

Hi folks l,m away from home and unable the to post a challenge this week.

If someone has a suitable photo have a go.......,.GC.

I've got something in mind to post. Is Saturday usually the day?

Igor, full-blue works for me.

 

I think that the orange one ended up with some halo in a few spots, such as the bow of the commercial boat. Still, it's interesting to look at that image, pretending not to know its source, and realize how believable it is. Given the right sun, clouds, etc. that could have happened.

Thanks! Orange looks artificial of course.. I wish I was better at making composites in PS!

I've got something in mind to post. Is Saturday usually the day?

Yes that will be fine.

Cropped, Straighten, deleted one boat. Adjusted lighting in ColorEfex. Added colored graduated filter

 

Igor, full-blue works for me.

 

I think that the orange one ended up with some halo in a few spots, such as the bow of the commercial boat. Still, it's interesting to look at that image, pretending not to know its source, and realize how believable it is. Given the right sun, clouds, etc. that could have happened.

 

A culprit is likely that you tried to sharpen the lettering on the commercial boat too much. (It even shows in your blue version). That's part of the reason that I gave up. Those letters were going to be unclear in anything that DxO could do. I own piccure+ (a pixel-by-pixel sharpening software), which might have rescued that, without artifacts, but I guess that I was feeling lazy after ten-days of travel.

A culprit is likely that you tried to sharpen the lettering on the commercial boat too much. (It even shows in your blue version). That's part of the reason that I gave up. Those letters were going to be unclear in anything that DxO could do. I own piccure+ (a pixel-by-pixel sharpening software), which might have rescued that, without artifacts, but I guess that I was feeling lazy after ten-days of travel.

 

Yes, maybe it is oversharpen, actually it doesn't display as nice here in the browser as in my photoshop screen.