PuntaColorada Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 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. This is Chateau Frontenac, Quebec City. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Boyd Posted May 24, 2019 Share Posted May 24, 2019 Great image....LR to adjust shadows / high lists. NIK to add Tonal Contrast in Color Efex Pro 4. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 Interestingly, there's a thread on Casual Phot Discussions dealing with night photography. I look forward, Punta, for experimenting with your challenge image. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Reid Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 Another fun photo to work with—thanks, Punta! Here’s what I did, starting in Lightroom: Basic panel: slight increase in exposure and whites; larger increase in texture, clarity, and shadows; reduced highlightsDetail panel: strong noise reduction, sharpened with high radius and low amount, strongly masked the sharpening to restrict it to the light areasModerate vertical transform and slightly narrowed aspect ratio to give the sense of looking upCloned to turn on more lights in the upper foreground storiesMoved to photoshopCloned out one of the flags on the rightGave the spire more headroom by enlarging the canvas and cloning in more sky; also elongated the cropped spire by cloning, then tapered it with more cloningBack to LightroomAdjustment brush with strong noise reduction over the skyAdjustment brush to darken the corbels on the lower leftCropped. Then cropped again. And again. And yet again (all that meticulous cloning down the drain). The format gradually changed from panoramic to vertical during these final edits. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asad Ali Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 Have increased the shadows and decreased the highlights in Lightroom, slightly decreased the Saturation. Had Put sum yellow in the highlights, magenta in the midtones and cyan in the shadows in photoshop. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 First Version: PSE15: used levels to further darken the shadows and to slightly darken the midtones, slightly modified colors, used content aware spot healing brush to eliminate the extraneous objects in the sky, used dodging tool for very slight degree of lightening along the bottom edge. Sharpened using NOIK Output Sharpener. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 Version 2: Converted Punta's original to b&w with Silver Efex. Used levels in PSE and dodging tool to bring out midtones, used sharpening slider by 15%, then followed with a light application of Output Sharpener. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 #rd Version (painterly): PSE using levels to darken image, using paint bucket (zebra and green with fibers filters) to add texture. used artistic menu (sponge filter) to add a bit more color, finally used dodging tool again along bottom edge, slightly added saturation. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samstevens Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 Nice photo. I wouldn’t change it. 1 "You talkin' to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 Nice photo, but I did change it. I started by making a "small planet" polar projection of the image, but that did not look promising. So, I cropped the polar projection, selected the black background using "magic wand" in Photoshop CS5, then selected the inverse, copied it and pasted it over one of my star field images. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_r Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 Worst Case Scenario 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemorrell Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 I started having a go at this on the weekend but I got distracted (by real photography ;)) . My immediate reaction was: ''Gothic!": think 'Gormenghast' by Mervyn Peake. This version is almost exactly the same as @michaellinder's (which I've only just seen)!. Looks like we both had the same PP 'vision'. Just a few minor differences: I've tried to remove a few 'modern trappings'; (the sign, the triple light on the left) and I've added just a wee bid of 'liquifying' to bend the straight lines. You guys are way ahead in creativity! I've really enjoyed browsing this thread! My thanks, as always, to @PuntaColorada for hosting this challenge and his/her bottomless pit of wonderful photos to work on! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_r Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 I started having a go at this on the weekend but I got distracted (by real photography ;)) . My immediate reaction was: ''Gothic!": think 'Gormenghast' by Mervyn Peake. The first two novels in that series are classics. "Respect the stones!" or something like that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_r Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 (edited) Mike inspired me to try Gothic too. This hopefully ominous version is via Topaz Studio Impression plus minor adjustments. Edited May 29, 2019 by tom_r 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemorrell Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 Hi @tom_,r, I haven't read these novels since I was a teenager but they made a big impression on me at the time. My local library is currently 're-organising itself'' which means that I can't browse the 'English section' but I can order books. I tend to read read more and more e-books. Both via my library subscription and via various (free) sources. It's about time I got around to re-reading the first couple of 'Gormenghast' novels ;). It's good to know that anyone else has ever heard of them! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemorrell Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 @tom_r You did a much better job on the 'Gothic look' than I did. I love it! I'm delighted that my version triggered your inspiration. IMHO, that's what this forum is all about. Mike inspired me to try Gothic too. This hopefully ominous version is via Topaz Studio Impression plus minor adjustments. [ATTACH=full]1297046[/ATTACH] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_r Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 (edited) Last version, I promise! I like the way this turned out using a Graphic Novel selection in Dynamic Auto Painter. Haha...maybe it's just my fondness for blue. Edited May 31, 2019 by tom_r 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffOwen Posted May 31, 2019 Share Posted May 31, 2019 Not quite sure what happened to my last posting of this challenge, maybe it was too big, I did after all add a few more floors and made it appear taller by distorting it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuntaColorada Posted May 31, 2019 Author Share Posted May 31, 2019 Not quite sure what happened to my last posting of this challenge, maybe it was too big, I did after all add a few more floors and made it appear taller by distorting it.[ATTACH=full]1297430[/ATTACH] Now that's a Grand Hotel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuntaColorada Posted May 31, 2019 Author Share Posted May 31, 2019 I just realized that I hadn't posted other than the original of this image. I would have liked to take the original in a 3 or 4 exposure bracket HDR but I didn't have a tripod nor something steady to rest the camera on. So this version is 'fake HDR'. I tried to make a 3-bracket HDR by copying the file and taking it down 1EV, copying the original again and taking it up until noise got really apparent, and then telling LR to make an HDR using the original and the 2 exposure-adjusted versions. The result is probably too subtle to see at this resolution; but, I was somewhat pleased. If I had more ambition, I would perhaps try 3 different exposures and putting them into another HDR; but, it's Friday already! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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