[m8o]

Much thanx to Adam for liking my treatment of his photo the most. I therefore have the honor of hosting the next PP challenge.

I happened upon this image of mine taken a bit over a year back that is intriguing. It is of the back walls of a restaurant where a bunch of us ate, drank, and hand much merriment during our annual holiday dinner, taken @ the end of the night when it had emptied out. I always thought there is something interesting/special hiding in there; it's a bit like the show Seinfeld, self-described by them as "a show about nothing", but given its success proved how machinations of nothing can really be something. But I never did anything with it other than boost some levels then exported it from Lightroom. Hope you find it intriguing too and are inspired to make something more of it.

If you wish, to maximize quality instead of saving the image below and processing that, the original unaltered full rez JPG and DNG RAW can be processed by clicking the links and downloading the files locally. If you choose to do that, please resize to 1000px wide before uploading it here as per the rule covering a file's max resolution entered in challenges.

The duration of this challenge will be the standard week. You may upload photos for entry until about midnight PST Monday, Jan 16; a.k.a., until about 3am EST Tuesday, Jan 17; alter for your timezone accordingly. All photos entered before that date & time give or take a little will be considered.

Good luck all and enjoy,

-steve


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EDIT:

For those hosting new challenges, here's the Mediafire Hosting login info:

Login - pentaxchallenge@yahoo.com
Password - postprocessing

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Last edited by m8o; 01-10-2012 at 09:51 AM.

[fg-one]

Nice setting but it's missing people. I'm sure some Photoshopper will sort this out...

[m8o]

Nice setting but it's missing people. I'm sure some Photoshopper will sort this out...

Big grin to the latter part. As to the former part, I guess that's just me and my penchant towards "still life" or "scenery & scapes" over people. I do have some of that setting w/the diners in the scene. But I chose not to use them in part because they were there, or too much motion blur from a slow shutter speed (I'll only use available light in a setting as that), but also in-part because the ISO was too high on those IMO.

[atupdate]

Nice setting but it's missing people. I'm sure some Photoshopper will sort this out...

With all those reflective surfaces, that will be a tough one to accomplish. I took the easy way out and ran a kaleidoscope action in PSP X.



Tim

[tessfully]

Big grin to the latter part. As to the former part, I guess that's just me and my penchant towards "still life" or "scenery & scapes" over people. I do have some of that setting w/the diners in the scene. But I chose not to use them in part because they were there, or too much motion blur from a slow shutter speed (I'll only use available light in a setting as that), but also in-part because the ISO was too high on those IMO.

There are people in the image, you just have to find them!!!

Great challenge, can't wait to give it a go!!

[m8o]

Glad you noticed that tessfully.

[atupdate]

There are people in the image, you just have to find them!!!

I looked all over in my entry and couldn't find a single one. Must be my old eyes.

Tim

[m8o]

That made me smile (I can't believe how bad my close reading vision's gotten in just the last few years after I'd been able to almost read the writing on a pinhead). In the original full rez un-cropped photo, I just counted 7 ; granted few are very detailed... some closer to a schmear. 8 if you count a duplicate showing only arms & hands. (edit: upon re-count, I'm up to 10 people now)

But I see few in this 1000px wide image shown in this thread if you are going by that so don't feel bad at all.

[kyc]

Interesting challenge, it's tempting to try do too much with it so I'll go with something relatively simple.

[tessfully]

Here is my attempt. Lots of fun. Thanks!

[m8o]

Giving this a mid-challenge bump.

[Workingdog]

Same room on acid trip.
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[m8o]

A final bump if you wanted to get something in. This ends in a bit over a 1/2 a day.

[m8o]

Thank you everyone for playing. I'll create a thread announcing the winners later today / this evening.