[Glenn5995]

Welcome to Post Processing Challenge 143! Thank you Arizona Dave for selecting me to host this round.

For this round I have selected a night shot of some of San Diego's high rises. The image needs work as the foreground is underexposed so the lights were not blown out. Let's see what everyone can come up with. Enter as many times as you wish. Be dramatic, be creative, be conservative, show off your PP skills, try something new...just make sure you give it a try.

I will close this challenge Thursday morning April 16. Let the fun begin!

Download the unedited RAW DNG file here: Simple File Sharing and Storage.

JPG preview of unedited image:



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[NeatKnight]

I'll play

[D1N0]

[Tas]

[todd]

here's a few more... could have done better with the sky bits, but you get the idea, right?

[Glenn5995]

WOW! What a great start. Keep them coming everyone.

[Tas]

B&W HDR...

...and the colour version

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Last edited by Tas; 04-11-2015 at 03:00 AM.

[vboy]

Welcome to Post Processing Challenge 143! Thank you Arizona Dave for selecting me to host this round.

For this round I have selected a night shot of some of San Diego's high rises. The image needs work as the foreground is underexposed so the lights were not blown out. Let's see what everyone can come up with. Enter as many times as you wish. Be dramatic, be creative, be conservative, show off your PP skills, try something new...just make sure you give it a try.

I will close this challenge Thursday morning April 16. Let the fun begin!

Download the unedited RAW DNG file here: Simple File Sharing and Storage.

JPG preview of unedited image:



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Information for the next host:
The MediaFire website is: mediafire.com
The log in name is: pentaxchallenge @ yahoo.com
The password is: postprocessing

Note to host: Copy and paste the above MediaFire information into your challenge, to help the next winner.
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there should also be a Lightroom tutorial post by someone who does pp.i wish there will be a/some post(s)....

[Julz83]

I did two, one in colour:



And one in monotone:

[d1224m]

All done in Lightroom, quick edit.

[Arizona Dave]

Thanks for a great image to play with Glenn5995.






Color:









B&W:









Creative:





Edit: Added a Couple


Tighter Crop









Psychedelic

[K David]

[Glenn5995]

Great entries. It is going to be difficult to select the next host. For those of you lurking, there is still a couple of days left to give it a try.

[K David]

Okay, so, my narrative of my processing glitched and wasn't saved over my lunch break, but I wanted to share my process.

After some raw editing to obtain color and saturation levels indicative of nighttime photography, I worked in Photoshop to edit it a bit. I began by correcting the verticals (which weren't far off, helped by the horizon being perfectly level.) After that, I duplicated the layer and changed the blending to overlay. I ran a high pass filter at, I think, 9 to get the details to pop like mad. That techniques works well on buildings like those in SD because they're very square and level.

After flattening the image, I duplicated it and set the blending to luminosity. I changed the layer to black and white and adjusted to sliders to give an even more night-timey feel. City lights tend toward orange, so I wanted to keep that feel in the sky. It also adds to make the scene warmer. I didn't want it to be washed out, so I kept the changes gentle and worked to make the blue of the one building on the right a nice counterpoint to the orange cast.

After flattening it, I noticed that the two center-ish buildings have really white and bright lights on top. I masked and copied them (with a three pixel feather) so that I could mute the brightness as it really dominates the image in an unpleasant way. I duplicated the lights and blended them with pin light, which added the detail of the three segments in each. Then I duplicated them again, blended with a lighting setting I forget and painted them an orange that matched the sky. I dropped the opacity to 25% on the painted layer and that really cut the brightness and made the color feel like a part of the image. I cropped it to remove the foreground and give it a heightened panorama look.

[atupdate]

I love the clouds in this image.



Tim