JRCrowe

In Lightroom,Cropped +Clarity, Saturation, Vibrance, dehaze, + red, orange channels. In photoshop made a selection of seagull layer via copy, duplicated layer, flipped new layer horizontally, used clone tool to distribute birds, flattened.

Fred the point of this thread is you get to do your own artistic rendering of the photo.

Glenn's treatment is close to what the camera actually saw, but in person it was very red. As you know the camera sees colors very differently than the human eye. That loss of separation between water and mountain was due to lifting the shadows so much. My posted treatment is only one of five different ones I have done of this photo. Its a fun one to experiment with. Here is a link to the same sunset by a different photographer.

Here is one of my final versions. The big problem I had was that the camera (5D MKII) saw more orange when to the eye everything was red. I used the color adjustments in Lightroom and in the orange channel moved the hue slider to the left and reduces saturation, luminance. White balance set to 4380. shadows +100 whites +40. I had the RAW file to work with though and that makes a difference. The vignette was lens related a Sigma 24-70 2.8 older version.

I will post something for this weeks challenge if nobody minds. This was Santa Monica beach July 18th 2012 with the remnants of a hurricane flowing over Southern California. This is from the unprocessed raw file which isn't even close to what it felt like to be there. Everyone along the beach stopped what they were doing because we all knew we would never see anything like this again in our lives. It has been frustrating to try and get the actual feeling in the photo that was there that day. It was like being wrapped in a warm red blanket. I will post my version in a day or two. You will think I overdid the processing and that would not be true.

In Lightroom +clarity,vibrance, saturation, dehaze, warmed white balance and magenta tint raised shadows lowered highlights +blue saturation -luminance. In photoshop unsharp mask added another dog.

Ground Squirrel.

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1937 Talbot Lago

Mallow

In Photoshop posterized, in filters chose stylize then extrude, then posterized one more time.

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I recently drove from Northern California to Southern California on Interstate 5 and it was a day of clouds of many different types.

 

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Summit Meadow Yosemite National Park

 

Sorry I couldn't get the thread started this week, yard work took precedence. One benefit was finding this on a dead branch. Haven't had time to identify it yet.

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I have been trying unsuccessfully to identify this plant. It grows in the rows of almond orchards here in California and is treated like a weed. It seems to be important to the local honeybees though as it flowers early and continuously for many months. The blossoms are about 10mm across. Having no luck with online resources.

My goal was to make it look like one of our family vacation photos from the 1950-60's taken with a Brownie Hawkeye camera. In Lightroom -clarity, sepia tone preset. In photoshop added border and used blur tool to soften.

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May the fourth be with you.

This guy was rushing past me on my driveway to get to his daytime resting place, but when he saw the camera he turned and posed for a portrait and then went on his way.

1971 Stutz Blackhawk at the Ironstone winery Concours D'Elegance in 2010

Consider the Sigma 17-50 f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM. I have one for Canon and it is a very good lens with a fixed aperture. It can be found used very reasonable prices.

In Lightroom +Clarity, Dehaze, Vibrance, Saturation. In photoshop created new blank document, outlined crude fin outline using polygonal lasso tool, filled with blue gray color, used blending mode emboss to give 3d look, dragged fin image onto Michaels and used a layer mask to eliminate background around fin, flattened image and used clone tool to smooth edges of fin. Played Jaws soundtrack while doing all this.

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Car versus bird unfortunately.

This was taken back in February but the local news today reported that there are so many birds migrating back north today that they show up on the weather radar.

In Lightroom used a Selenium tone preset, gradient -exposure foreground, dehaze overall+50, Shadows +36, highlights +20, clarity +31, Adjustment brush on lighthouse and buildings.+ Exposure.