Gerald Cafferty Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Hi folks as nobody else has stepped forward I'm afraid it's me again. This is a as taken file just converted to a jpeg from a Fuji RAW file, and is the Royal Pavilion Brighton. It is still at camera resolution so plenty of pixels to play with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allyn_saroyan Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 My Photoshop processes were: Perspective correction; U-Curve in sky (mid-tones pulled down); S-Curve; Clone out upper right roof; Darken blue in sky; Blur sky. My ON1 processes were: Tone enhancement; Color enhancement; Dynamic Contrast; Big Softy vignette. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Bortnick Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Had two thoughts on this. 1 was to "pop" it a bit. Did some work in Color Projects added some texture with Fractalius. The second was to make it more "Arabesque". Used Corel & Kaleidoscoped the image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn McCreery Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 I converted to black and white in SilverEfex in Photoshop CS5, using tonal contrast, a red filter to help bring out cloud detail, and sepia toning. Like Allyn, I used perspective correction. It bothered me that I could only see half of the first floor, so I cropped it out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Reid Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 I like the original a lot—there’s a lot to play with here. I was particularly interested in the way the blues and whites worked together here, but the warm cast to the buildings distracted from that, so I decided to focus on adjusting the colors for the first version: All processing was done in Lightroom: Increased exposure 0.2 stopsWB: slightly cooler temp and slightly more magenta tintincreased contrast slightly (mostly to intensify the blues) and clarity a lot; opened shadows, increased white point; reduced highlights and black pointTone curve: increased contrast in lights to increase variation in cloudsStraightened slightly, and rotated to keep central column verticalCropped accordinglyHSL: reduced luminance in blues, increased saturation in blues; reduced saturation a lot in oranges, yellows, and reds; moved blue hues slightly away from greenWith adjustment brush, removed clarity increase from most of the sky to soften the cloudsSharpened, while masking sky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Reid Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 For the second version, I wanted to zero in on the part of the frame I found most interesting, but it took 6 different experimental crops to figure out which part that was—there’s a wealth of beautiful detail here. For this version, the major part of the effort was in bringing out the blues in the window reflections and in getting the perspective to look right. Here, too, all the processing is in Lightroom: I started with the previous versionUsed adjustment brush to increase contrast, shadows, saturation, and clarity on the balcony and windows, reduced temperature there slightly and increased tint there slightly (wanted to bring out blue in windowsFurther opened shadows, increased clarity, reduced temperature, and increased tintStarted playing with vertical, horizontal, and rotation adjustments to get the perspective to feel right for the portion of the frame that I was interested in. Ended up with a little bit of tilt for the verticals (the view of the balcony indicates that we’re looking up, so the off-center verticals can’t be vertical), a rotation to make the center portion of my intended crop vertical, and a horizontal adjustment (+33) mostly to be able to get the crop I wanted. Cropped to square 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic_c Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Processed in Lightroom 5 - Auto vertical adjustement, Cropped, then worked on clouds using brush applied high sharpening, adjusted white balance -100 highlights, +48 shadows, -23 whites, -54 blacks, and +85 clarity, +69 vibrance to bring out details Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted April 10, 2017 Author Share Posted April 10, 2017 Started in Lightroom, corrected verticals, selective exposure, white & black points. opened in Silver Efex, applied Film Noir 1 preset, adjusted until happy, applied slight coffee tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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