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PostPosted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 3:09 pm    Post subject: RAW challenge Reply with quote

This photo is a compressed and resized source file.



Source file ->IMGP4117.PEF (Pentax RAW) is
here as a zip file - 11Mb

Max size of the longer side is 900pix, 250Mb.
Please add information about what you did, step by step - this is not necessary but would be nice.
Do not convert it to mono. This is challenge about color too.
You can use any software you want.
Do not use any frames, signs, copyright marks please.
This is one week competition, starts Monday, Sept 07 ends Sunday 12PM, Sept 13 Central Time USA. If you are going to make description about what you did - you can post your final version as late as is possible - no later then ends time. This is your choice. Please post your picture one time only and don't do any changes later to improve it.
Everybody who wants to write his/her opinion, please do it after time ends for week session. With exception when member who posted his/her version wants to know opinions ASAP.
Thanks


Last edited by voytek on Sun Sep 13, 2009 2:11 pm; edited 1 time in total


PostPosted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



Ok, quick and dirty. It won't win any prizes in PS pissing competition, but it's lookable.

1. Get the verticals, vertical

2. Crop for effect. Most of the foreground, sidegrounds and top were wasted space, detracting from the subject. I took the subject to be, broadly, being on the boat on the canal, so this crop includes both and the tour guide. Annoyingly, there's still an odd headtop in the fg, but as yoomans, we're used to this. I cba getting out the clone brush.

3. Did levels, hightlights and shadows - slight tweak on those.
4. Rectify some slight CA
5. Did a free transform on the left side particularly - matey there on the left had a very long head, and managed to give him back a human shaped skull.
6. Applied USM, saved and posted.


PostPosted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
....and managed to give him back a human shaped skull


Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy


PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote




patrickh

I don't care about the shape of his head Embarassed Embarassed


PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

my version.

- some cropping
- horizon
- some exposure adjustments
- some contrast adjustments
- make the pic more spicy Wink
- some detail enhancements
- some sharpening
- resize
- minor sharpening

and here is it




Wink


PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Like a HDR image Rolf.. bit harsh Wink

Here is mine

Acdsee auto exposure control nothing manual by me.



PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

great version Rolf! lot of spicy 3D Very Happy


PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hope nobody minds.
Took some liberty with Rolfs version (I prefer it as well).
The characters here just needed a bit of help to tell a story.
Story board style from the movies Wink



PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

F16SUNSHINE wrote:
Hope nobody minds.
Took some liberty with Rolfs version (I prefer it as well).
The characters here just needed a bit of help to tell a story.
Story board style from the movies Wink



Ha, ha, ha. Now it is getting spicier.


PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Resized to focus on the little girl with her thumb in the mouth looking at water between the boat and the peer, and the man thinking "oh my god", already having sea sick... Smile
Horizon.
Some more contrast and warmer colours.



PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote


Converted with UFRaw: set white balance to auto, corrected gamma.
Postprocessed with the Gimp: levels adjustment, sharpening on luminance channel.

Regards, Marty.


PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

let me try this one

i've done contrast and tonality set to high and color adjustment in Photoscape, plus the baloon Very Happy




PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent, Hexi !!! Laughing Laughing Laughing