Post Processing Challenge 31st March 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.

Hi Gerald. I like this subject. I did two interpretations.

First, I cropped it to a vertical, added some Clarity, Vibrance, and Saturation, and adjusted the Exposure in Lightroom.

Then I took it into Topaz Clarity, where I boosted the clouds. Contrary to expectations, the best pre-set for this turned out to be the Sunny Day - Blue Sky pre-set. I then tweaked it to get more contrast.

Next I took it into Topaz B&W Effects, where I used a green filter and a Selenium tone on top of a standard pre-set. I also used Adaptive Exposure to enhance the contrast even more, possibly too much for some tastes, but I like it.

Back in LR, I added a subtle gradient to darken the top 2/3 and a brush adjustment to lighten the grass in the foreground so that it balances the sky.

This one was much simpler. It started the same in Lightroom, but I skipped the Topaz Clarity and went directly to B&W Effects. I started with their Low Key III pre-set, then tweaked a few settings to get this result. I think I may actually like this better.

Imported to Lightroom then to Photoshop to Increase canvas size to make a square format and used content aware fill to create more sky. In LR +clarity, vibrance, saturation, dehaze +24, raise shadow values, -10 vignette, straightened slightly.

I like Davecaz versions so I thought a black and white version would be nice.

You may have noticed from my photo's I visit Whitby often, usually once a year. In fact I love the place, I could move and live there but then I wouldn't have a magical place to visit.

During the late 19th early 20th centuries Whitby was home to Frank Meadows Sutcliffe a photographer who recorded Whitby and the surrounding areas. Here is a link to a photo of his of the same view, unfortunately the cows were missing on the day of my visit. https://amazon.clikpic.com/sutcliffegallery/images/04-031.jpg (if the link fails please do a google search).

Basic adjustment in LR. Then into Elements to use the Clone Tool to cull a few misplaced people. Then into Silver Efex for the mono conversion and Sepia tone. The result is meant as an homage rather than a copy.

I like Davecaz versions so I thought a black and white version would be nice.

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Thanks. Yours is nice, too.

I thought that this image would look good as a night scene with the moon and, of course, a few bats. I selected the bright sky with "magic wand" in Photoshop CS5. Then I selected the inverse, copied it, and pasted the selection on a photo that I had taken a few years ago of the moon and clouds. I then adjusted curves on the foreground layer to make the scene look like night, added a few stars and three bats. I also painted the moon's reflection on the lake.[ATTACH=full]1239252[/ATTACH]

Nice! Remove the tourists and you've got a book cover image :)

I found one of the cows, but she scares me. Vampire, Zombie? I looked up some of Sutcliffe's other photos and he was quite good and he is in a lot of museums. Nice to see that he photographed everyday life.

Hi Gerald. I like this subject. I did two interpretations.

 

First, I cropped it to a vertical, added some Clarity, Vibrance, and Saturation, and adjusted the Exposure in Lightroom.

Then I took it into Topaz Clarity, where I boosted the clouds. Contrary to expectations, the best pre-set for this turned out to be the Sunny Day - Blue Sky pre-set. I then tweaked it to get more contrast.

Next I took it into Topaz B&W Effects, where I used a green filter and a Selenium tone on top of a standard pre-set. I also used Adaptive Exposure to enhance the contrast even more, possibly too much for some tastes, but I like it.

Back in LR, I added a subtle gradient to darken the top 2/3 and a brush adjustment to lighten the grass in the foreground so that it balances the sky.

 

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This one was much simpler. It started the same in Lightroom, but I skipped the Topaz Clarity and went directly to B&W Effects. I started with their Low Key III pre-set, then tweaked a few settings to get this result. I think I may actually like this better.

 

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Dave, I agree with you. I like the 2nd one better.

Hi Gerald. I like this subject. I did two interpretations.

 

First, I cropped it to a vertical, added some Clarity, Vibrance, and Saturation, and adjusted the Exposure in Lightroom.

Then I took it into Topaz Clarity, where I boosted the clouds. Contrary to expectations, the best pre-set for this turned out to be the Sunny Day - Blue Sky pre-set. I then tweaked it to get more contrast.

Next I took it into Topaz B&W Effects, where I used a green filter and a Selenium tone on top of a standard pre-set. I also used Adaptive Exposure to enhance the contrast even more, possibly too much for some tastes, but I like it.

Back in LR, I added a subtle gradient to darken the top 2/3 and a brush adjustment to lighten the grass in the foreground so that it balances the sky.

 

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This one was much simpler. It started the same in Lightroom, but I skipped the Topaz Clarity and went directly to B&W Effects. I started with their Low Key III pre-set, then tweaked a few settings to get this result. I think I may actually like this better.

 

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Dave, I agree with your preference of the darker version. It's a lot moodier.

I found one of the cows, but she scares me. Vampire, Zombie? I looked up some of Sutcliffe's other photos and he was quite good and he is in a lot of museums. Nice to see that he photographed everyday life.

 

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The Cretan bull perhaps?