Post Processing Challenge August 17, 2019

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.

Artists trying to capture the beauty of Sauble Falls. What can we do?

Thank you for posting, Punta. This is an attempt at moonlit impressionistic.

Some challenges are just irresistible.

In Lightroom:

1. increased exposure, clarity, and texture on our artists, lowered highlights on the water.
   

In Photoshop:

1. enlarged the canvas
   
2. cloned with reckless abandon
   
3. used clone source panel to clone background at progressively smaller scales, and foreground at larger scales
   
4. recloned parts to try to make duplications less evident
   

Back in Lightroom:

1. modified the colors of our artists’ coats with adjustment brushes
   
2. put in a gradient to reduce clarity, texture, and sharpness of the more distant falls
   

Here's my Manet-ish version.

While I appreciate Manet, I think the image lends itself more to Seurat ...

I wanted to accentuate fall colors, so I increased saturation, used the Indian Summer filter and added tonal contrast to highlights and shadows in NIK ColorEfex.

Magnificent image, Punta. Since no one had posted a monochrome version, I quickly decided that was the road to take. Initially, I used Silver Efex for the conversion to b&w. Then, in PSE, I made tonal adjustments using levels. Next, I applied a slight bit of global sharpening using Output Sharpener, followed by using PSE's sharpening tool for sharpening specific areas, mostly the cascading water. Finally, I did a bit of dodging on the human figures.

Thanks again for the practice. This one is mostly a sketch, but has lots of other "experiments" added in.