PuntaColorada Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 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." (Gerald Cafferty) This is my first go at posting the challenge. The moon was setting to the west of Punta Fria as the sun rose to the east. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuntaColorada Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 This is a low res version of the image for reference only. Please click on the 'view attachment' on the post above for the high res version. I obviously did something wrong when posting the original. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemorrell Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 What a great photo, @PuntaColorada! I love the subtlety of the colors in the sky! I played around with it and eventually just decided to try and make the original a bit brighter and a bit less "muddy" (no offense intended, just my perception!). I'm interested in color grading at the moment but I soon discovered that nothing in my LUT library adds to or improves on the original colors. A valuable exercise! So my PP steps were: - adjust levels - brighten the mid-tones by a few per cent - brighten the whites of the buildings a shade to make them stand out more - increase the saturation by a few per cent - apply a LUT that enhances the saturation and contrast Most of these adjustments were applied at 50% or less and the group of adjustments as a whole was applied at 50%. Somehow, I didn't have the inclination to disturb the serenity of this photo by adding other objects (boats, planes, submarines. lighthouses). Looking forward to other versions! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemorrell Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 For some reason, I didn't get the usual option of adding a thumbnail or full image when posting. Posting now seems limited to posting and viewing attachments. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuntaColorada Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 I think I maybe broke the bank. It was a 10.5MP jpeg. Did you try to post a smaller size? I had the same problem of no option for thumbnail or full image. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuntaColorada Posted December 14, 2018 Author Share Posted December 14, 2018 What a great photo, @PuntaColorada! I love the subtlety of the colors in the sky! I played around with it and eventually just decided to try and make the original a bit brighter and a bit less "muddy" (no offense intended, just my perception!). I'm interested in color grading at the moment but I soon discovered that nothing in my LUT library adds to or improves on the original colors. A valuable exercise! So my PP steps were: - adjust levels - brighten the mid-tones by a few per cent - brighten the whites of the buildings a shade to make them stand out more - increase the saturation by a few per cent - apply a LUT that enhances the saturation and contrast Most of these adjustments were applied at 50% or less and the group of adjustments as a whole was applied at 50%. Somehow, I didn't have the inclination to disturb the serenity of this photo by adding other objects (boats, planes, submarines. lighthouses). Looking forward to other versions! [ATTACH=full]1275279[/ATTACH] I saw your image. It was 5MP. Looks great. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Boyd Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 Great image this week. I used LR to adjust horizon and slight crop. Then used NIK for Detail Extractor and added Tonal Contrast. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemorrell Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 A smaller file: 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allyn_saroyan Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 In Photoshop I added contrast and exposure to the moon, added exposure to the land, and added a blue tone. In Topaz Studio, I used AI Clear (noise reduction and sharpening). 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Vongries Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Not entirely pleased with this, but there you have it. Crop, adjust color, exposure & fractionally sharpen. Sometimes you know something you are working on will only get worse :eek: 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_r Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Bortnick Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 2: 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Bortnick Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 I offer two abstractions.... 1: 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 Hi Punta (do we call you Punta?). Thank you for posting this weeks challenge. I like the composition so no cropping but slight adjustment to the horizon. All adjustments in Lightroom 5.7, as the moon is so prominent I've set it later in the day. Converted to B&W, using the adjustment tool I switched on a few lights. The lighter areas on the water are meant to show reflections of the moon, I'm not convinced it worked that well. I've found using someone else's photo a pleasure. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuntaColorada Posted December 15, 2018 Author Share Posted December 15, 2018 Thank you Gerald. Punta is fine. I very much like what you did with this image as well as what others have done. I have a number of candidate images selected for the future; so, If nobody comes forward, I can continue for a while. Like you must have experienced, I'll miss the fun of working on other people's images. I don't know where I went wrong posting this file. I wasn't given the option of posting the full image or a thumbnail. A possibility is that I am using Chrome on a Mac which does not like Flash. In the future, I'll try posting from Safari. It's either that or perhaps my files need to be a bit smaller. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 I don't know where I went wrong posting this file. I wasn't given the option of posting the full image or a thumbnail. A possibility is that I am using Chrome on a Mac which does not like Flash. In the future, I'll try posting from Safari. It's either that or perhaps my files need to be a bit smaller. Chrome works OK with windows for posting. It could be that you did nothing wrong, it is not unusual for PhotoNet to be a bit flaky....................GC. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemorrell Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 I've been trying to learn a bit more about adjusting separate RGB channels (using 'curves') and to apply adjustment layers (using blending options) only to shadows, mid-tones or highlights in Photoshop. This is all pretty new to me because I usually just use masks on adjustment layers. Anyway, I decided to use this week's PP challenge just to play around with and this is what I came up with: - a levels adjustment (same as my previous version) - a channels adjustments (curves and color balance) that boost the magenta and yellow saturation - a separate color balance adjustment that restores some blue to the sea - a B&W highlight adjustment to partly correct a "yellow" moon It's nothing special, just mentioning a different workflow. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_r Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 (edited) Apparently the size of PuntaColorada's original hi-res file was a little larger than the sizes we are used to posting here, thus the problems with links and/or the photo correctly posting? Here's a photo showing two OP files (this week and last week) as measured by Photoshop's Image Size command: Edited December 16, 2018 by tom_r 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikehegarty01 Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Great image Punta. My goal was to push the color as far as I could. All changes made in Gimp. I made a set of luminosity mask and used them to tone the dark's with a blue to blue-green and the light with orange to yellow. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Rick inspired me to do something "artistic." Initially, used NIK noise reduction. Then, in PSE15, resized, inverted colors, then used sponge tool for some selective boosts of saturation, and finally added texture. Sharpened using Output Sharpener. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuntaColorada Posted December 16, 2018 Author Share Posted December 16, 2018 Rick inspired me to do something "artistic." Initially, used NIK noise reduction. Then, in PSE15, resized, [ATTACH=full]1275595[/ATTACH] inverted colors, then used sponge tool for some selective boosts of saturation, and finally added texture. Sharpened using Output Sharpener. Michael, once in a blue supermoon! I seem to recall that that was actually the case here! How perceptive of you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted December 16, 2018 Share Posted December 16, 2018 Quote Tom R....... Apparently the size of PuntaColorada's original hi-res file was a little larger than the sizes we are used to posting here. Tom you may well have found the problem, Punta's pixel dimensions are higher than any of my camera's native files.....................GC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted December 19, 2018 Share Posted December 19, 2018 I mostly used NIK ColorEfex tonal contrast and glamour glow filters, plus increased contrast of moon and reduced it's saturation. Nice image to work with. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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