[LarsW]

In Camera raw: Crop, tonal adjustments, b/w conversion, added grain and vignette.
In PS: Removed big rock in foreground, local dodge/burn, toned with a gradient map layer.

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Last edited by LarsW; 05-12-2016 at 09:32 AM.

[LJ Hanekom]

I'm quite a noob at editing, so I'd like to see what the more experienced users do with this image.

[eccs19]

I don't normally do these, but thought I'd give it a go just for fun.

[jheu02]

It was tough deciding what to do since it's a great picture to begin with. BUT, I found the one main boulder in front a little distracting, and I found that with the three buttes/mesas there wasn't a clear focal point. So, i looked at a crop of the left two, and then did some extensive copy/paste/clone to give me a little more room around the edges for the crop. Then just a little burning near the bottom corners and some light levels/curves/selective saturation/tone mapping.

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[flakoo]

The glowiness of the rock at the foreground is really distracting.

[ronp]

Here is my version

[JHfwp]

I wish I wasn't so busy right now and that I could fix a few of the problems I know I've created, but if I spend any more time on this I'm going to get myself into some serious trouble.

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Last edited by JHfwp; 02-19-2015 at 01:15 PM.

[parang0n]

Here's mine (spectacular location, by the way!):

[flashcactus]

I reckon this is about all that needs to be done here.

[Annatefkah]

My attempt at playing around with PS Elements 12

[Finchj]

Never done one of these challenges before, nor shot in this kind of environment. Was fun working with an image from the DA*16-50 as I'm thinking of purchasing it myself.

Edited with darktable 1.6. It doesn't look like I did much, but it took a while

[dunerunner]

Just a little cropping and a romantic feel with the tone.

[helmiczka]

I like todd's BW and sage's versions a lot. Mine seems rather dull, but I wanted to upload it nevertheless.

[K David]

I thought about going the monochrome route and almost did with this image, but ultimately felt that color plays an important role. To make this image I adjusted the raw file to levels that I felt were pretty decent. After opening it, I masked off the sky and copied the sky as a layer. I reselected the whole sky and gave it motion blur that made the clouds look nice without looking like they were being moved by an off-camera tornado. I had to do that after re-selecting so that the clouds didn't overlap the mittens.

I then copied the sky layer again and did CTRL+SHIFT+B for an auto color and made the layer 20% transparent. That added color pop without unnatural coloration.

That result of the motion blur was some awful halo effect around the distant mesa. So I used the eyedropper to select a dark color from the top-most sky layer (the 20% layer) and then switched to the background layer. Using the brush set to 50% and darker color mode, I painted over the halos until they had blended with the sky and hill. This required a brush radius of 50 as the halos were a couple hundred pixels thick.

After that I selected all of the sky layer, inverted it, and selected the foreground. I duplicated the foreground and then set the blend mode to Overlay. Using the high pass tool at 9, I added some sharpening and detail to the rocks. That looked good but garish, so I set that layer to 80% transparency to take the edge off the sharpening layer. Then I flattened and re-sized the image to upload it.

[Rimfiredude]

In Camera raw: Crop, tonal adjustments, b/w conversion, added grain and vignette.
In PS: Removed big rock in foreground, local dodge/burn, toned with a gradient map layer.

Very, very nice.