Gerald Cafferty Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Hi anyone ready for a new challenge. Please see if you can make anything from this image of the River Brit @ West Bay Dorset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allyn_saroyan Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Conversion to B&W plus zone dodging and burning in Photoshop and dynamic contrast, vignette, and tobacco filter in On1. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norma Desmond Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 (edited) crop, selective color adjustments, brightness and levels adjustments, lighting filters Edited May 21, 2017 by Norma Desmond 4 We didn't need dialogue. We had faces! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Boyd Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 LR for shadows, highlights. and cropping. Color Efex pro 4 for tonal contrast.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray House Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Crop, level, selective color & contrast adjust, sharpen... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_wheeler6 Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Hi anyone ready for a new challenge. Please see if you can make anything from this image of the River Brit @ West Bay Dorset. [ATTACH=full]1188114[/ATTACH] Good one, Gerald. it was sufficiently challenging, but I think I got a handle on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Initial step: In PSE15, adjusted levels and cloned out a few distractions in or near the pond Proceeded in Color Efex to emphasize cool tones, and then added detail (brilliance/warmth and detail extractor filters) Back to PSE15: added saturation using hue/saturation slider, selectively added more saturation to certain areas with sponge tool, then boosted sharpness selectively using "triangle" tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted May 21, 2017 Author Share Posted May 21, 2017 A lot of interesting versions, all improvements on the original out of camera image. I decided to go the B&W route, cropping and initial adjustments in Lightroom then into Silver Efex. From an high contrast preset, localised adjustments followed by a vignette. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcstep Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 DxO Optics Pro, 2:1 crop, Clearview Adjustment a +50, Microcontrast at 15, Saturation +4. Sharpening at +125 on DxO scale. (I tried for extra sharpening with piccure+, but it didn't make any improvement). Untitled by David Stephens, on Flickr 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcstep Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Quite a nice range of interpretations. I think that I like John's added water and tighter crop the best, so far. In this thread, are we not limiting our responses to 1000p? I thought just the OP could post LARGE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igord Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Basic cmyk curves, additional red channel in rgb to darken blues, lab curves for contrast and saturation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted May 22, 2017 Author Share Posted May 22, 2017 Quite a nice range of interpretations. I think that I like John's added water and tighter crop the best, so far. In this thread, are we not limiting our responses to 1000p? I thought just the OP could post LARGE. David thanks for pointing out the added water in John's post, just goes to show how poor are my powers of observation. In my defence he has done it so well it just looks like the tide has come in. Regarding posting sizes it would be great if there was an instruction book to go with this site (remember them, information on what to do) ...................GC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted May 22, 2017 Author Share Posted May 22, 2017 [ATTACH=full]1188144[/ATTACH] crop, selective color adjustments, brightness and levels adjustments, lighting filters Fred your version is nicely understated and most closely represents what I saw on the day.....................GC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 I was attracted to the S-curve of the right bank of the river, so I cropped the image in Photoshop CS5 to accentuate it. Then I increased the highlight tonal contrast in ColorEfex, and decreased the saturation by 70%, so as to approach a black and white interpretation, but not quite get there. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Glenn, yours is an interesting approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norma Desmond Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Gerald, I felt the pastoral scene suggested a light touch and a bit of pastel color tone. In the last couple of years, I've taken several road trips through similar countryside. Days with these kinds of blue but cloudy skies have less harsh lighting and contrasts which I really enjoy sometimes. Sort of nicely accompanies the peacefulness of the scenes as I drive and walk along. I felt the blue house and the blue sky were key here. We didn't need dialogue. We had faces! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Bortnick Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Howdy all, I took a more painterly approach. 1. Oil paint filter 2. Cropped 3. Copied layer & Fractalius filter - overlay 75% opacity 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Howdy all, I took a more painterly approach. 1. Oil paint filter 2. Cropped 3. Copied layer & Fractalius filter - overlay 75% opacity [ATTACH=full]1188621[/ATTACH] Looks rather impressionistic, Rick. I think this is the first time I've seen Fractalius used in connection with a landscape image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Bortnick Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 Like most fractalius images, works on a few but not most Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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