Weekly Post Processing Challenge 17th November 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.

A bit of cropping in LR. Film Noir preset filter in Silver Efex Pro 2.

Extraordinary perspective, GC!

Nice photo - just balanced the exposure a bit, to enrich it. Several interesting crops possible.

 

Edited November 17, 2018 by Sandy Vongries

Gerald this is an outstanding image.

I used Gimp. First I adjusted the white and black points with the Levels tool. I created a new desaturated layer that I used to make luminosity mask. I used the luminosity mask to adjust color saturation and contrast. I added an un-sharpen mask to finish up.

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Gerald this is an outstanding image.

I used Gimp. First I adjusted the white and black points with the Levels tool. I created a new desaturated layer that I used to make luminosity mask. I used the luminosity mask to adjust color saturation and contrast. I added an un-sharpen mask to finish up.

Sorry all I don't know why this posted so many times.

What a great photo, GC! The scene somehow reminded me of a photo I took in France many years ago, just before the evening sun set over the hills. Just - for the fun of it - I had a go at trying to emulate a 'even lower sun' in Photoshop. I went about it by:

- adding a warmer (orange) filter to sunlight areas and a cooler (blue-purple) filter to shadows

- sharpening the contrast in areas (like trees, roof tiles) that typically might have been even more strongly side-lit

- darkening some shadowed areas to simulate the effect of less (reflected) light

- adding more color and contrast to clouds (which I'm still not happy with)

 

It was fun to do and I tried not to overkill the photo. The exercise helped me realize just how difficult it is to 'change the quality of light' in PP for landscape photos. And how knowledgeable and skilled landscape painters were/are w.r.t light and color.

All work done in PSE15. Used levels to create a low key atmosphere. Then, selectively saturated using sponge tool.

 

 

I am traveling and have Affinity Photo on my Macbook, but not my usual Photoshop CS5. I was playing around with cropping and then adding a black and white layer with various blending modes and opacities. I settled on the "negation" blend mode which does some interesting things. However, I can find no information through the Affinity web site as to exactly what it does, other than "we are working on it". Photoshop CS5 does not have this blend mode.

PN-Challenge-11-17-2017 by David Stephens, on Flickr

 

Processed with DxO PhotoLab 2

Added DxO "ClearView Plus at 78

Highlights -24

Warmed Slightly

EV +15

Shadows +7

Straightened based on building near middle of image

Slight crop to cut out a building showing partially after leveling

 

Great file.

Thanx for the opportunity to play with your photo, Gerald.

 

1st is a bit of LR adjustments, sharpening and then blurring in PS.

 

This one required PS to adjust the canvas size, transformed the dimensions to fit the tall canvas and then content aware fill about 1/3 of the sky. Some dynamic range and tonal adjustments in OnOne Raw and Bob's your uncle.

 

Edited November 17, 2018 by PuntaColorada

Another try. Adjusted tonality in PSE15, levels. Then used a vintage film preset in Color Efex, readjusted tonality with levels. Then used "find edges" filter in PSE.

 

 

Enchanted Isle? That was the attempt anyway. Effect chosen from Smart Photo Editor, aspect and crop adjusts in Lightroom, Topaz AI Remix filter.

 

Went for a natural look using ACR shadow and highlight control, clarity and vibrance adjustments, slight vignetting

Wow! Some really amazing interpretations. Great file.

The Village?