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Post Processing Challenge June 20, 2020


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There are no rules as to how you apply your post processing to this image; but, please let us know what you have done so we can all learn.

If you would like to post a candidate image next week, please ensure it is of sufficiently high resolution for manipulation by the participants (3000px on the long side, 300dpi for example).

 

Most of all, let's have fun while we are learning or demonstrating how we use our post-processing software, imaginations and interpretations.

 

Taken at 7AM local time here (Punta Colorada, Uruguay) on the 1st day of Winter.

 

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I’ve been working my way through Dan Margulis’ book “Photoshop Lab Color,” so I decided to play this one fairly straight. I had three goals: (1) bring out the colors while maintaining a wintery look, (2) liven up the sky and draw attention to the approaching squall, and (3) make the road look wet. So:

  1. In Photoshop, I switched to Lab mode, steepened the a and b curves a lot in separate adjustment layers, then reduced their opacity to about 30% and 20%. I made another curve adjustment layer for the L channel and steepened it in the brights to bring out contrast in the sky, and in the mid-darks to increase contrast in the vegetation.
  2. Just for the heck of it, I used the Liquify filter to give the road a bit of an S-curve.
  3. In Lightroom, I increased whites and shadows, reduced highlights, and used the HSL panel to reduce saturation in orange and purple. I used an adjustment brush to increase clarity in the aloes and cacti, and further increased the white point and decreased highlights there.
  4. I added a large radial filter centered on the squall, increasing exposure slightly, reducing the black point slightly, and warming it slightly.
  5. I added a brush stroke for the sky, reducing contrast (which increased the differences among clouds—go figure…), increasing clarity, reducing blacks, and reducing texture (to soften the clouds up again).
  6. I added a graduated filter to increase foreground exposure 1/4 stop.
  7. The squall still wasn’t very visible, so I used a few adjustment brushes to lighten the front and darken the sea.
  8. Finally, I used Scott Kelby’s trick for making the road look wet: an adjustment brush at 100% contrast and 100% clarity.

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Ok, Punta. Now I'm trying to figure out if Becky and Hattie refers to two corgi, or one corgi and the leash holder? I've tried to increase resolution and sharpen your fine post, but I can still only espy one duggie so far. Is this a find the missing corgi photo/game? :) Click on photo for bigger image.

 

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Ok, Punta. Now I'm trying to figure out if Becky and Hattie refers to two corgi, or one corgi and the leash holder? I've tried to increase resolution and sharpen your fine post, but I can still only espy one duggie so far. Is this a find the missing corgi photo/game? Click on photo for bigger image.

 

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Hattie was with Becky. Harry was with me and is out of the picture. I just realized that I took the photo of the naval vessel during a 'tall ships' event in Punta del Este and did not exclude the masts and rigging of the tall ship that was behind it. That is also where the flag of Nova Scotia came from! The Uruguayan navy does have one tall ship (the Capitan Miranda); however, this isn't it.:)

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