Thank you LarsW for hosting this challenge, giving us such a wonderful image to work with and for selecting my entry. There were many great entries, good work everyone. I will see what I can come up with for the next challenge. I have a pretty busy schedule the next few days, so please be patient.
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I would like this challenge to one in which we learn from one another and help each other out, so here is my recipe for this image (as best I remember):
I began in Lightroom, where I cropped to get a complete image and then took a little extra off the bottom to get rid of the lumber stacked just below the boats and a little extra off the left to remove the buoy on the far left.
Next I cloned out the stumps, logs and post in the lower portion of the image. Then I cloned out the buoys, line from the boat and their reflections. To accomplish this I used the clone brush in heal mode with 100 opacity and 0 to 60 feather depending on the need.
I made no white balance adjustments. The following overall adjustments were made:
Exposure: +1.00
Contrast +15
Highlights -45
Shadow +15
Whites 0
Blacks -20
Clarity +15
Vibrance +15
Saturation +7
Sharpening was as follows:
Amount: 60
Radius: 1.0
Detail: 35
Masking: 80
Noise reduction:
Luminance: 10
Detail: 50
Contrast: 0
Next were these individual brush adjustments -
To the boats and dock:
Exposure: -0.60
Clarity: 15
Sharpness: 70
To the buildings and trees along the shore:
Highlights: -15
Clarity: 15
Sharpness: 60
To the clouds:
Temp: 8
Exposure: -0.35
Highlights: -40
Clarity: -20
Sharpness: -70
Noise: 75
This image was sent as a TIFF file to Photomatix where I applied the "Vibrant" preset with the following adjustments:
Strength: 100
Tone Compression: 2.0
Lighting Effect: 100
White Clip: 4.0
Black Clip: 3.0
Midtones: -3.0
Color Saturation: 0
Color Temperature: 0
Sharpening: Mild
Next I sent it to PicMonkey as a JPEG, where I increased the Exposure +0.50 and added the frame.
That is it!
Last edited by Glenn5995; 08-03-2015 at 08:20 PM.
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