Weekly Post Processing Challenge 27th January 2018

Another weekly challenge.

 

If anyone else would like to post next week please give it a go, upload a High resolution jpeg. Just indicate by Wednesday next in this thread if you are willing to try.

 

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.

 

Overlay blend of a color abstract

Redfield Fine Art filter

Great image, Gerald....LR to adjust shadows / highlights. Define 2 in NIK to reduce noise. Silver Efex Pro2 for Film Noir filter.

My primary objective in working on the challenge image was to make it moodier. Initially, in NIK's Define2, I reduced three small areas of noise in the clouds. Then, in Color Efex, I used the "dark contrasts" filter to make the tonal adjustments I wanted. In PSE15, I used the dodging tool to lighten several areas, and then finished with sharpening ins NIK's output sharpener.

Processed with DxO PhotoLab:

 

Photo.net Processing Challenge 01-27-2018 by David Stephens, on Flickr

 

1:1 crop, using diagonal of piling, leading to center of image

ClearView +32

EV +46

Highlights -33

Shadows +31

Contrast +32

Microcontrast +5

Vibrancy +32

Saturation +18

Luminance NR 23

Unsharp Mask 129, Radius .5, Threshold 4

I immediately thought that the pylons should keep going past the shore, so I copied a section of pylons, scaled it smaller, and pasted it on the water. I used the warp function in Photoshop CS5 to make it look continuously receding. Then I copied the tall mast, scaled it to various sizes, and pasted them in geometrically appropriate locations. finally, I added a pelican.

All adjustment in LR. Crop and Horizon. Auto adjust for starters. Grad filters from top and bottom and various adjustment brushes for selective exposure and colour balance. In HSL adjustments to individual colour saturation and luminance. Readjusted white and black points, applied slight vignette. Adjusted for noise and sharpness.