[D1N0]

This is Post processing Challenge 129. I took the picture today and was a bit late (almost dark) No tripod with me so I had to improvise. Long shutter time camera sitting on the waterside. This challenge will end next sunday 23:59 CET.

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[schnitzer79]

D1NO this is an excellent picture just as it is
Looking forward to working on it

[JHfwp]

One mild, and one not so mild:

[opfor]

Hopefully this comes out OK....:-)

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[discharged]

Okay, here is my attempt.
done in lightroom and PS.
1 lowered color temp, exposure and added more contrast
2 cropped the light, I felt it took too much space in the reflection, and cropped the top so reflection and houses matched eachother.
3. exported to PS
4 color ranged the sky, and created a new layer with that, changed layer mode to linear burn and lowered opacity.
5 some selective tweaking of the color range selection,
6. done
7. to come, probably... I should fix some things that annoy me. But I have a super busy week ahead of me,with 12 to 20 hour workdays from tuesday to sunday.

Edit: I took care of the sky being darker than the reflection. Decided it annoyed the hell out of me and could not leave it even for the time being.

[Glenn5995]

[todd]

had another version going concurrently in gimp that had an aurora going on in the sky that I liked better than this one, but for some reason gimp crashed after I closed this version out, so going with this one...



edit: I was bored so adding a couple more

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Last edited by todd; 11-24-2014 at 10:56 PM.

[K David]

It's not a challenge to post process an already-good photo!



My goal here was to create a sunset-invoking scene, building off the time of day when you took the shot. I went for a muted tone look that was based on the already-inherent colors in the image to bring out the illuminating tones and reduce the colors that are less vibrant after the sun dips behind the horizon.

[Arizona Dave]

I forced myself to learn a little Photoshop this week. I used Lightroom 5 and Photomatix Pro to get the buildings and reflections the way I imagined the scene. I then used Photoshop for the sky and foreground reflection. I manually masked this (because I don't know how to do it any other way) and had to watch a few tutorials to learn how to mirror the sky for the reflection. I used a photo I took recently for the sky.

[Glenn5995]

I am really enjoying these post processing challenges. It is great to see the different ideas and approaches everyone has. I tried something a little different (at least for me).

[astonm]

Good morning..... turned that sunset into a sunrise. Early morning tranquility, hot coffee on the dock with that brisk morning air.

[santa]

I'm with Aston on this.

This spoke to me the same way when I saw this picture. Here is my PP of this photo. Added a little sunrise, added some cloud effect into the water for a fog type of look, and saturation levels changed amongst other things.

[D1N0]

two days to go. Keep em coming. No mermaids yet

[K David]

This time with a mermaid

[Bruce Clark]

Thought this image was suited to B/W with all the textures and lines.