Post Processing Challenge 24th June 2017

[Gerald Cafferty]

Another challenge for another week. Remember there are no rules you can do what you wish in your interpretation, but if you can give information of the steps taken and software used to add interest. It is not meant as a competition just a bit of fun.

If anyone else would like to post an image for next week just step forward.......Regards GC.

[Glenn McCreery]

 

Nice image to work with. I was attracted to the boat and the curves of the water in the channel but found the houses in the upper right to be a distraction, so I cropped the image. The photo, and especially the sky, seemed underexposed, so I made a duplicate layer and used multiply with an opacity of 0.89. Then I adjusted curves. That's all.

[Bill J Boyd]

Imported to LR for my usual adjustments....shadows, highlights, and a slight crop from bottom. Next used Color Efex Pro 4 with a bit of tonal adjustment.

[Supriyo]

I liked how the boat was parked in the middle of the canal with oars on both banks. I also wanted to highlight the curves of the canal and make the boat the focal point. I wanted the land to be dark and the water bright. So I converted to BW in Silver Efex with some selective color filters and vignette added.

[tom_r]

I apologize for this not being more professional. It was an excuse for me to amateurishly try using Photoshop and Piccure+ with my new Akvis NatureArt plugin plus a little mood altering with 3d Lut Creator. Thanks for the practice.

 

Edited June 24, 2017 by tom_r

[Ray House]

Crop, Level, Selective Color Adjust & Saturate, Vignette, Copy window on boat, Dodge rocks and Darken Sky.

 

[Gerald Cafferty]

I apologize for this not being more professional. It was an excuse for me to amateurishly try using Photoshop and Piccure+ with my new Akvis NatureArt plugin plus a little mood altering with 3d Lut Creator. Thanks for the practice.

 

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Don't apologise " there are no rules"

[dcstep]

PN Digital Darkroom Challeng 06-24-2017 by David Stephens, on Flickr

 

Processed with DxO Optics Pro 11.4

Automatic geometric corrections enabled

Checked for level, it was

Cropped square, to emphasize the left side

DxO Clearview at 63

Clearview darkens, so I raised EV +60

Highlights -25

Shadows +21

Microcontrast +25

Checked WB and no change resulted

[michaellinder]

PSE15 - adjusted levels

HDR Efex - used "deep" preset, adjusted tonality with more emphasis on blacks

Converted to b&w in Silver Efex, used tonal sliders for final adjustments, added structure (15%)

[Gerald Cafferty]

Crop in LR, Recover highlights & shadows in LR, Open in Colour Efex Pro 4, Apply preset travel film effect vintage, Back to LR reduce noise, increase sharpness, adjust contrast with curves.

[igord]

Little desaturation plus sharpening.