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10-16-2012, 05:19 PM   #1
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Post processing challenge 79!

Tess kindly awarded me the winner of the 78th post processing challenge. Thank you Tess!

Here is an image I took in May before I got my K-5. I actually entered it (+post processing) in a monthly challenge and it didn't fair too well, so now someone is going to make it a winner!

The original is a PEF from my K100D (no +JPEG option), so here is display of the JPEG converted with no overt processing using Irfanview. (I copied the exif back in using another program):

[Kit lens at 26mm, F10, 30 seconds exp, ISO 200, The World Peace Bridge]

The Challenge will end Monday morning October 22. The winner will host the next challenge.

Enjoy!!!


Here are the media files:

Post Processing 79.PEF


Original size JPEG version


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Information for the next host:

The media fire website is

Free Cloud Storage - MediaFire

The log in name is

pentaxchallenge at yahoo dot com

The password is

postprocessing

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10-16-2012, 06:18 PM - 1 Like   #2
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I thought it would be fun to see what 10 minutes in Capture One could do (with no local adjustments). As always, it looked a little better before being uploaded, but here it is:
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Tough one, I can decide over B&W or colour.
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10-16-2012, 08:02 PM   #4
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Great start!

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Hmmm... kinda hard!
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I suspect you were looking for a way to improve your image, in which case I've failed miserably. But I certainly had fun.
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I may need to give this one a bit more effort over the weekend but incase I don't get to it, here is my humble attempt.



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great job folks. I find it funny no one straightened out the horizon yet.
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Normal processing in ACR:
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Well, I tried.
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QuoteOriginally posted by sirjes2 Quote
great job folks. I find it funny no one straightened out the horizon yet.
I was going to, but it messes up the tower, so I assumed the horizon wasn't supposed to be level.
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Brought up the exposure, messed around with the colour balance, then a touch of cropping and noise reduction. Slapped on a little vignette and lens correction too.
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Okie Dokie



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This is a case where pseudo-HDR is handy. Ran it through Lightroom, then Photomatix, then some more lightroom tweaking. I may of overdid it a hair, but I wanted to pull the detail from the foreground a bit more AND the lights of the city. The horizon is still off, but if I fixed that the tower would lean so... eh. Lesser of two evils.


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Here's my take on post processing:



Corrected some highlights, cropped and rotated a bit to level the perspective, cloned out some dust spots and adjusted some sliders.

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