Gerald Cafferty Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Another weekly challenge. If anyone else would like to post next week please give it a go, upload a High resolution jpeg. Just indicate by Wednesday next in this thread if you are willing to try. Remember there are no rules you can do what you wish in your interpretation, but if you can give information of the steps taken and software used to add interest. It is not meant as a competition just a bit of fun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Bortnick Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Warpage 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trigger_Happy Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 (edited) Cropped, removed some people and other distractions, added gradients on the top and bottom. Added saturation to the greens. Added some blue and red. Added some sunlight and a slight vignette. Edited September 30, 2017 by TriggerHappy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Boyd Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Lightroom for highlights, shadows, and a bit of cropping. Color efex 4 to add tonal contrast. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Reid Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 This one was complicated. I was going for the sun-breaks-through-as-a-storm-is-clearing look, with practice-all-the-editing-stuff-I’m-weak-at as the primary editing motivation. So I bounced it from Lightroom to Photoshop to Color Efex (Nik collection), where I played with all the presets with giddy exhilaration and a notable lack of inhibition. I settled on dialing up the Brilliance and Warmth, adding a bit of Warm Glow, playing with contrast, and a couple of others. Back in Photoshop I started patch-tooling and healing-brushing and clone-tooling to make the locale look a bit more timeless. Then I returned to Lightroom, where I added dark gradients for the sky and foreground to try to give the impression of sunlight in the mid-ground, added a radial gradient over the buildings to lighten and warm them, and then used a lot of adjustment brushes to do things like emphasizing sunlight in some places, darkening the hillside behind the buildings to bring the buildings out more, lightening part of the cliffs to make them less monolithic, softening the sky (=undoing some of the damage I’d done in Color Efex), adding some variation in the foreground gravels, and so on (10 in all). Oh yeah, the boat. I invented the front of the boat with the help of the clone tool in Photoshop, using the clone-source panel to play with the angle of the gunwale, then smoothing the edges with the clone tool and shading the hull with the adjustment brush. This is the first time I’ve used Color Efex, and I can tell that this is going to be a dangerously fun piece of software. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norma Desmond Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 4 We didn't need dialogue. We had faces! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcstep Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 (edited) Processed in DxO Optics Pro 11.4.2. Cropped Raised EV .83 Raised Shadows +42 Applied "Clearview" (DxO preset, contrast/saturation/etc.) Lowered Highlights -.36 Lowered Contrast -32 Raised Microcontrast +19 PN Processing Challeng 09-30-2017 by David Stephens, on Flickr Thanks for another great file to work with. Edited September 30, 2017 by dcstep 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Used PSE15 for selective sharpening and saturation. In Color Efex, adjusted tonal levels with Pro Contrast; then added detail with Detail Extractor. Returned to PSE 15 for sharpening; used sponge tool to desaturated dark clouds.[ATTACH=full]1212014[/ATTACH] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcstep Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 Nice stuff. So far, I like TriggerHappy's the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted September 30, 2017 Share Posted September 30, 2017 I darkened the sky, added vignette, sharpened the row of rocks, and added a flock of migrating geese. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 I'm baffled. The version I posted with my description (above) is gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted October 1, 2017 Author Share Posted October 1, 2017 I'm baffled. The version I posted with my description (above) is gone. Hi Michael, It must disappeared early on because I didn't see it yesterday..........GC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted October 1, 2017 Author Share Posted October 1, 2017 Basic adjustments in LR including crop. Opened in Silver Efex Pro, applied Pinhole preset and added several control points to arrive at what you see. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norma Desmond Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 Michael, I saw your post not long after you posted it. There was no picture there. One recommendation is, because the new PN is so finicky and unreliable: after posting a photo and confirming it, leave the page and then come back to the page to make sure your photo is there. 1 We didn't need dialogue. We had faces! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_r Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Mystical Day or Nightmare at the Beach? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Michael, I saw your post not long after you posted it. There was no picture there. One recommendation is, because the new PN is so finicky and unreliable: after posting a photo and confirming it, leave the page and then come back to the page to make sure your photo is there. Thanks, Fred. I wish I had done what you suggested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 One more time . . . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaTango Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Damn, Gerald--you scooped me! :eek: "I See Things..." The FotoFora Community Experience [Link] A new community for creative photographers. Come join us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaTango Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Scoop my traditional "olde timey" photo will you. Here, take this! :mad: 1 "I See Things..." The FotoFora Community Experience [Link] A new community for creative photographers. Come join us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted October 2, 2017 Author Share Posted October 2, 2017 Scoop my traditional "olde timey" photo will you. Here, take this! :mad: [ATTACH=full]1212342[/ATTACH] Love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 Scoop my traditional "olde timey" photo will you. Here, take this! :mad: [ATTACH=full]1212342[/ATTACH] A thermonuclear blast of red particles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now