Weekly Post Processing Challenge 20th January 2018

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, please can you give information of the steps taken and software used to add interest.

 

It is not meant as a competition just a bit of fun.

 

A splendid image, with lots of potential, GC! Initially, I cropped from the left and top in PSE15. Then to Define2 (the NIK noise reduction program) to eliminate noise mostly in the clouds. Back to PSE - used levels to reduce the shadows output and to boost the midtones a bit. In Color Efex, I used the leaves and curves tool to bring up the warm tones. Added a 15% green filter in PSE

A very nice image. I like the dark clouds, the reflections, and the color pallet, so I left these alone. I thought that the railing on the left and the lights on the far right were distracting, so I did a little cropping to eliminate these, and then used cloning to further simplify the lower left corner. Finally, I darkened the edges by burning the shadows and mid-tones. .

HDR Projects 2 - to make an artificial HDR - nice but just not what I wanted ... imported into

COLOR Projects - Stylized pencil drawing & added some blur

 

 

or if you want to go full blown abstract

 

Crop and levels adjustments.

LR to adjust shadows, highlights, exposure and crop from left. NIK for noise reduction (Define2) and use of Detail Extractor and Tonal adjustment filters.

My attempt gave me an excuse to practice with a lot of programs which probably cancelled each other out. Anyway, I went from SNS-HDR "natural" setting with adjustments, to Photoshop where I sent it to Akvis Sketch for experimenting. I chose a mid-range version along the timeline of the sketch it produced. Back in Photoshop, I used the history brush to hopefully keep a little realism and sharpened with Piccure+. For overall coloring, I tried various luts with 3d Creator to get sort of muted colors. I cropped in Lightroom. Great photo, Gerald. I like the mood and colors.

In Lightroom cropped from left and top, increased exposure by one stop. Then used NIK Define 2 to reduce noise. Used NIK Viveza 2 to carry out selective adjustments to exposure and colour with several control points. Finished off with NIK output sharpener.

 

In Lightroom cropped from left and top, increased exposure by one stop. Then used NIK Define 2 to reduce noise. Used NIK Viveza 2 to carry out selective adjustments to exposure and colour with several control points. Finished off with NIK output sharpener.

 

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Looking at this now there is clearly to much noise reduction.

In Lightroom cropped from left and top, increased exposure by one stop. Then used NIK Define 2 to reduce noise. Used NIK Viveza 2 to carry out selective adjustments to exposure and colour with several control points. Finished off with NIK output sharpener.

 

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Looking at this now there is clearly to much noise reduction.

In Lightroom cropped from left and top, increased exposure by one stop. Then used NIK Define 2 to reduce noise. Used NIK Viveza 2 to carry out selective adjustments to exposure and colour with several control points. Finished off with NIK output sharpener.

 

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Looking at this now there is clearly to much noise reduction.

In Lightroom cropped from left and top, increased exposure by one stop. Then used NIK Define 2 to reduce noise. Used NIK Viveza 2 to carry out selective adjustments to exposure and colour with several control points. Finished off with NIK output sharpener.

 

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Looking at this now there is clearly to much noise reduction.

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