[Arizona Dave]

Welcome to the 207th edition of the Post-Processing Challenge!


Thanks for hosting the last one K-amps!


I was out at Tatahatso Point on the Navajo Nation overlooking a lesser-known horseshoe bend in the Colorado River, when this happened behind me.
These are the Echo Cliffs near Cedar Ridge, Arizona, but I was 15-20 miles away. I used my trusty K-5 IIs and my lightweight DA 55-300 (I was on a motorcycle trip) to shoot this hand-held.



Experiment. Have Fun. Wow me with your post-processing prowess. Multiple entries are fine.



Unedited Preview






Download Links:


JPEG: PP 207


DNG: Simple File Sharing and Storage.







I'll close this contest sometime next Wednesday, January 25th. You've got a week, but get your entries in quick - before someone else steals all your great ideas.










Information for the next host:

The mediafire website is: mediafire.com
The login name is: pentaxchallenge@outlook.com
The password is: postprocessing
Note to host: Copy and paste the above MediaFire information into your challenge to help the next winner

Read more at: https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/26-mini-challenges-games-photo-stories/33...#ixzz4WArKeIgY

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Last edited by Arizona Dave; 01-18-2017 at 08:48 PM.

[Rimfiredude]

[Glenn5995]

[todd]

[aaacb]

My first ever processing challenge submission, after much experimenting with masking in darktable.

[caliscouser]

[astonm]

just having some fun with my texture files......

Attached Images

 

[Tas]

I'm a big fan of telephoto landscapes, the distance compression adds something special to an image. I hope you have a few more like this for the telephoto landscape thread Dave.

I liked the look of the unprocessed image so aimed at keeping the PP basic.

Tas

[y0chang]

My attempt, really love the colors of the mists and the drama of the storm. Tried to incorporate that into my edit. Adobe Camera Raw -> Photoshop -> Minor Edits

[Kerrowdown]

Just add a little moonlight.

[awscreo]

Here's my take. Wanted to emphasize the mountains in far distance, and see if I can balance the image out color-wise and contrast-wise as I saw it.

[LarsW]

[Arizona Dave]

It's now sometime on Wednesday, so the challenge is now closed. It's time to pick the winners!


Thanks for hosting last week K-amps and thanks to everyone who played along this week.


You all produced some very nice edits. Of course, trying to whittle them down to my favorites and picking next week's host is always hard. I didn't see many problems with the image that needed serious correction. I was mainly looking for nice color balances, smooth transitions of saturation in the rainbow, and fairly natural processing. I am always open for big creative choices, but in this round, the more creative choices didn't appeal as much to me. My favorites were the more natural-looking.


Kudos to Kerrowdown for bravely turning a spectrum of color and red cliffs into a monotone.


aaacb, Welcome! Thanks for jumping into this challenge for the first time. Your submission was one of my favorites. The only thing keeping yours out of my top 3 was just a little to much purple in your sky. Great processing.




My third most favorite was caliscouser! Very nice job.


Second place goes to Glenn5995. I love the job you did on the sky and with cloning of the distracting elements of the foreground. I was glad to see the fuzzy white ears gone. Several entries deleted this distracting element, but you went much further and did an excellent job cloning out the taller out-of-focus bush. Perhaps, a little less saturation of the cliffs, would've vaulted you in the lead.


First place and the next host goes to Tas! Great job here! You are up!





















BTW, This was my edit done last October shortly after it was shot. I think I like Tas' and Glenn5995's version better.

[Rimfiredude]

Good job Tas

[Glenn5995]

Congratulations Tas! Looking forward to what you have for us in the next round.

Thank you Dave for hosting this challenge.