[TenZ.NL]

Welcome all to the Post Processing Challenge #92!

Many thanks, post_eos, for hosting last weeks challenge.

The baton is passed to me since last weeks winner wasn`t able to host this.
I did some digging in the archives and found something that was not a real keeper. Sometimes I preserve certain imagimes just to work on them later or just play with it ijn PP. This is somewhat underexposed and composition isn`t the best. But it also didn`t end up in the trashcan right away because it has something I like but haven`t been able to extract. So I like you to get wild, anything goes.




This challenge will run until 19:00 PM CET, March 18th, 2013

The winner of this challenge becomes the host of the next one. Don't forget to have fun and I do look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with! Please, feel free to share your editing process, hints or ideas.

Here are the files:

Challenge92.jpg
Challenge92.DNG


Information for the next host:

The media fire website is: mediafire.com

The log in name is: pentaxchallenge @ yahoo.com

The password is: postprocessing

Have fun, good luck and make my job as difficult as possible
Grtz Jacco.

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Last edited by TenZ.NL; 03-13-2013 at 11:07 AM.

[Patajac]

first blood again

[J. Stanz]

Here's my quickie. I'll post details when I have more time.



EDIT: Here's a higher resolution image.

[todd]

Quickie here too.. Just thought I'd see about increasing the d-range but went about it sloppily.. Posting anyway in case I don't try again...

[Vasyl]

some fantasy..

[post_eos]

Here's a try. I'm not happy with the blown out sky but I can't find any detail to grab. I may try something on a second attempt to fix the sky.
For this one I...

• Made a faux bracket set of -2,0,+2 from the DNG in ACR
• Pulled the set into Machinery and did my basic HDR setup
• Brought it back to Photoshop
• Did some work with Topaz Adjust
• Crop
• Increased the exposure for everything but the sky
• Basic sharpening
• Noise reduction on the dark parts of the shack. It was really noisy in the shadows in there.
• Changed to LAB and increased the saturation using curves on the A and B channels.
• Back to RGB and applied a warming filter at 21% opacity.
• One final minor curve adjustment to balance things a little better

This one was challenging. Thanks for picking it!

[TenZ.NL]

Some really nice entries sofar, guys

Here's a try. I'm not happy with the blown out sky but I can't find any detail to grab. I may try something on a second attempt to fix the sky.
This one was challenging. Thanks for picking it!

Yes, it was a challenging scene. Very demanding for my old K20d.

[atupdate]

I decided to add a stronger visual focal point to the image.



Tim

[TenZ.NL]

stronger visual focal point

Whahaha, now this is what I would call an understatement!
Godzilla in the Fjords, nice one!

[post_eos]

I decided to add a stronger visual focal point to the image.



Tim

THAT is cool!

[atupdate]

Godzilla in the Fjords, nice one!

I wanted to use the Loch Ness Monster but he was booked solid until after the challenge closes.

Tim

[lgt525]

I cropped, adjusted the curves a tiny bit added a blue filter and then made hdr photorealistic low contrast on photoshop. I was going for a vintage travel postcard look

[Bill2849]

Working in Lightroom 4, I cropped pretty much along the same lines as lgt525. But I used onOne's HSL Blue Skies 3 setting and then the onOne Gritty Punch setting. The frame was added in PSP X5.

Edit to change frame 3/16/13.

[wolfiegirl]

Whoops. Nearly missed this one! Here's my contribution.

[jmschrei]

DNG file processed in Aperture, cropped, flipped and brightened. Further processing in Snapseed, increased detail, localized adjustments to brightness and contrast and the application of a vintage filter and frame.