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<p>After having witnessed PN v.2.0 I am happy to see it gone. Lets not do that again any time soon.</p>

<p>Whether a pursuit is easy or hard has more to do with your standards than with the discipline being pursued.</p>

<p>Corrected exposure and contrast in PS6.<br>

Clone layer to remove fence and wires.<br>

Topaz simplify layer.<br>

Nik color Efex layer<br>

Nik hdr layer.<br>

Individual layers masked and blending modes changed to suit.<br>

Resized.</p>

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<p>Nik HDR + Nik Silver Efex + Nik Analog Efex</p><div></div>

<p>C'mon, don't be shy, let see those funky filters. I know you've got them, I've seen them before.</p>

<p>Bill, I'm guessing that at least some people left the stick across the heron as a choice, it would be easy enough to remove. I know that I modified the branch but left it in deliberately for several reasons. It helps to reinforce the diagonal across the frame set up by the other branches. It makes the image feel more honest to me. It gives an increased sense of depth.</p>

<p>Rotate and crop. Clone out a few distractions. Raise exposure and lighten shadows with curves layer. Dodged out some of that rise on the bird and shadow with a mask and brush. Duplicate layer. Apply Gaussian blur, reduce opacity to 25%. Mask out bird from blur layer. Dodge and burn as required. Resize. Selectively sharpen. Post.</p><div></div>

<p>Having read the responses and viewed the images posted in this thread, I have a better idea of the purpose of these "challenges". I had previously thought that it was about posting an image which for whatever reason was challenging to post produce and could benefit from some post production to improve the photo. I now see that it is about posting anything at all, for no particular reason and then bludgeoning it with filters. Please excuse my initial confusion and carry on.</p>

<p>I realise that there is no rule against posting a boring photo, however if the point of the thread is to get people to participate then <em>what</em> is posted, is relevant. These "exercises" get very little participation. Howard offered a legitimate reason why this is so. I concurred. Neither of us have to offer you our own example in order for our observations to have merit. By all means continue to post, bin worthy, images if you think that is the best way forward.</p>

<p>It is not as interesting as you make it, it is as interesting as it is, which in this instance is, not at all.<br>

If you want people to be involved then offer them something that they would not hit the delete button after having shot themselves.</p>

<p> As Tim rightly points out, the circles which were pore structure and a part of the guy's skin could easily be avoided or fixed as you can move around the sample points or resample from different points. I was not aiming for perfection, rather I was trying to illustrate that LR can do the job. Undeniably I could have done a much better job had I spent more that a minute working on it. This is not my image and the response I got was pretty much what I expected so I'm glad I did not waste any more time.</p>

<p>PS gives more control as you can work on a separate layer but the spot healing brush in LR will do the job. I did this quickly with the brush set to heal.</p><div></div>

<p>Michael, why would you want to emulate a style which you spend so much energy denigrating? You have a style of your own, which works for you, my unsolicited advice would be stick with it, it seems to serve you well.</p>

<p>Michael, I think your axe may need some more grinding, it's getting dull.</p>

<p>Rick, fantastic over/under shot.</p>

<p>From a few months back when the ground was dry and warm and I still felt inclined to lay on it to get this shot.</p><div></div>

<p>In order to offer an answer the first thing one needs to know is what type of tree sap? If you are talking about coniferous tree sap such as pine or spruce sap you need a strong solvent. Deciduous tree sap would be soluble with warm soapy water. You say that the photos are old and no doubt prized family heirlooms so be very cautious and try anything on as small and inconspicuous an area as possible.<br>

I have used naphthalene with success to remove pine sap from synthetic tent material and clothing with good results but have not used it on photographs. </p>

<p>Howard, thanks for the follow up.</p>

 

<p>Go to <a href="http://www.worldpressphoto.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.worldpressphoto.org </a><br>

<br />click on galleries</p>

<p>select year from drop down menu</p>

<p>Difficult?</p>