Weekly Post Processing Challenge 18th August 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 your intentions by Thursday or early Friday.

 

 

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.

Cropped, removed wires over clouds, converted to black and white in NIK SilverEfex, toned, added border.

Thanks Gerald for supplying this image it is very nice. I like the strong leading line of the left side river bank so I tried to figure a way to use that. I made two layers one in color that I added a little contrast and saturation to the mid tones. The other layer I desaturated and did a split tone. I then added a white mask to the top layer and did a black to white diagonal blend to make the right side of the river full color and the left side split tone. I took a few tries to get the blend to match the bank but I like this one.

Some color play.

Crop, adjust contrast, reduce highlights and shadows, slight increase in saturation.

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Thanks Gerald for supplying this image it is very nice. I like the strong leading line of the left side river bank so I tried to figure a way to use that. I made two layers one in color that I added a little contrast and saturation to the mid tones. The other layer I desaturated and did a split tone. I then added a white mask to the top layer and did a black to white diagonal blend to make the right side of the river full color and the left side split tone. I took a few tries to get the blend to match the bank but I like this one.

Hi Mike that's a very interesting approach well done.

LR...adjust shadows / highlights, crop, and concert to b/w. NIK Color Efex Pro 2 and used a Contrast filter. Added frame in PSE

Hi Mike that's a very interesting approach well done.

Thank you Gerald for your nice comment. Again thank you for supplying the image. I look forward to this every week.

"Hi Mike that's a very interesting approach well done."

 

"Thank you Gerald for your nice comment. Again thank you for supplying the image. I look forward to this every week."

 

Ditto!!!!

Most work done in PSE15: adjusted tonalities using levels; used dodge tool to brighten sign, people, and patch of sky; sharpened; added lens flare in top right . Used vignette filter tool in Color Efex to add white vignette.

Surreptitious Meeting.

Edited August 18, 2018 by tom_r

Excellent challenge image, GC; wonderful work, everyone!

My interpretation was inspired by the tom_r post but hopefully not a copy. All adjustment done in LR, I can't remember all the steps but I was looking to a high contrast effect. Then I went for a split tone, Red for the highlights and blue for the shadows.

Processed in Snapseed on my mobile phone. Heavily cropped.

Processed in Snapseed on my mobile phone. Heavily cropped.

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Forgot to mention, increased brightness, saturation, contrast, ambience and shadows. Reduced highlights and applied a touch of hdr.

 

Applied a telephoto lens correction filter to a copy of the image to get the spherical effect then overlaid it on the original. Cropped down, reduced exposure and removed saturation from the background and cloned out a wire. Boosted exposure and applied curves to the main area.

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Applied a telephoto lens correction filter to a copy of the image to get the spherical effect then overlaid it on the original. Cropped down, reduced exposure and removed saturation from the background and cloned out a wire. Boosted exposure and applied curves to the main area.

 

Megalithic effort, well done.