PuntaColorada Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 "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) Puerto Punta del Este after the catch and cleaning. Here, sea lions are called 'los lobos' (the wolves). It is understandable when you see them devour fish guts. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuntaColorada Posted January 18, 2019 Author Share Posted January 18, 2019 The sea lions are quite large! You may want to exploit that in your interpretation of the image. Big fish gut eaters! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanford Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 You have much friendlier Sea Lions than we do around here. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuntaColorada Posted January 18, 2019 Author Share Posted January 18, 2019 You have much friendlier Sea Lions than we do around here. Maybe it's that they are better fed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Boyd Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 LR to crop image. NIK for HDR effect. PSE for frame. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 3 versions - (1) In PSE15, cropped from bottom and a bit from the left edge, then used spot healing brush to eliminate remnants of the woman in bottom right corner. Then levels for gross tonal adjustments and dodge tool to lighten face of the woman carrying two crates. Then used sponge tool for selective color saturation increases. Finally used NIK's Output Sharpener. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 (2) Used more drastic crop from bottom. Then went to Color Efex and used one of the vintage film presets. Back to P{SE to adjust tonal levels and then used sponge tool to boost saturation of woman's shirt. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 (3) Decided to go semi-abstract. Too many steps to be specific (all in PSE15) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_r Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 A grungy version for a tough job: Lucis Pro + a little HDR. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 (edited) Taking a hint from the second image, I eliminated the tray in her right hand by using content aware fill in Photoshop CS5, then looked through my Hawaii snorkeling photos to find a suitable(?) fish (a unicornfish) and pasted it over the background, then revealed selective parts of the background by painting black on a mask. Having once been chased away by a territorial sea lion while scuba diving in the Monterey Bay, I fully appreciate Sanford's comment! Edited January 19, 2019 by Glenn McCreery 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 [ATTACH=full]1279701[/ATTACH] Taking a hint from the second image, I eliminated the tray in her right hand by using content aware fill in Photoshop CS5, then looked through my Hawaii snorkeling photos to find a suitable(?) fish (a unicornfish) and pasted it over the background, then revealed selective parts of the background by painting black on a mask. Glenn you've shown some admirable skills in swapping the tray with the fish. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemorrell Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Great work, Glenn! Funny too. [ATTACH=full]1279701[/ATTACH] Taking a hint from the second image, I eliminated the tray in her right hand by using content aware fill in Photoshop CS5, then looked through my Hawaii snorkeling photos to find a suitable(?) fish (a unicornfish) and pasted it over the background, then revealed selective parts of the background by painting black on a mask. Having once been chased away by a territorial sea lion while scuba diving in the Monterey Bay, I fully appreciate Sanford's comment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcstep Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 PN-ProcessingChallenge01-019-2019_DxO_DxO by David Stephens, on Flickr Processed with DxO PhotoLab 2.0.2 Shadwos +33 Blacks +9 EV +49 Clearview +60 Square Crop Healed Away (woman, sea lions, stray bag and writing behind woman subject, water hose). Vibrancy +19 Saturation +5 Took three-minutes. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikehegarty01 Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Punta thank you for supplying this nice image. I did my work in Gimp. First I converted the image to black and white. I then I then changed the image mode to Indexed with 5 colors. I then painted in the colors each color having it's own layer. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuntaColorada Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 A new ploy to get more fish guts. I think his friends are in on it. In homage to Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson) "Can you balance the world on the tip of your nose like a sea lion with a ball at the carnival?" The hardest part was making the beach ball from scratch because I didn't have a photo of one. Cryptically: new square document, vertical stripes, circular selection, distort>spherize, spherize 2 more times, cut and paste into the photo, rotate, dodge and burn to get shadowed bottom and lighter top. The rest of the image was just the usual adjustments, blur, masking, etc., which I can't remember. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemorrell Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 I liked the 'fish'and 'balancing ball' takes on this but ... they were aready 'taken' :). I tried to simplify the image and add more color: - cropping - removed the girl on the right (context-aware fill) and hosepipe (clone/patch) - adjusted levels and contrast in the water - added adjustments (blue shadows, violet highlights, orange mid-tones - darkened/blurred the 'clutter''top-right 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuntaColorada Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 Iteration 2. Sometimes less is more and beach balls don't remain clean. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 Hi to all PPCers. No inclusions just exclusions. All actions in LR 5.7.1, Cropped and using the spot removal tool excluded the young lady bottom right. Converted to B&W, ,used the color sliders to effect the contrast in the woman's top and tone down the green bucket/trays. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuntaColorada Posted January 20, 2019 Author Share Posted January 20, 2019 If anyone else wants to post the challenge next week, just let us know. You are all such talented photographers and I bet you have lots of curiosity about how others will interpret an image. Please share! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_halliwell Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 Moderate crop, some box re-labeling, a human removal and a thought bubble...;) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 [ATTACH=full]1280228[/ATTACH] Moderate crop, some box re-labeling, a human removal and a thought bubble...;) Thanks Mike you've made me smile on a miserable grey day..............BR............GC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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