THE PP GAME!

Pookeyhead said:
Holy crap! That's a lot of work!! LOL

The swirls the owner refers to are the circular scratches you can see around the highlights...
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So I completely missed the swirls, :lol: are well, never mind ay. :'( :thumbs:

Rhodese.
 
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Bit dodgy but I was rushing.

A bit in camera raw - clarity and so forth,
then in photoshop added a purple-ish gradient and reduced the opacity to 20%. A little dodging on the back of the car, a little straightening of the horizon, the odd bit of cloning to get rid of a couple of details, rather slapdashly.

Boosted the saturation with an adjustment layer.

Is that it? Probably. All I can remember. Not too happy with what I've done but it is fun fiddling around with other people's images!
 
OK.. well, well, well....

Chuckles: Nice edit.. I don't normally like the whole coloured grad thing in car shots... but that kind of works... nice work. The haloing and artefacting around the car.. mainly above the windscreen lets the side down a bit I think.

Alz D: Interesting colour grading, nice retouching.

Rhodese: A prodigious amount of work!!

Rob L: Nice retouching. Simple, clear, quality is clearly the top priority.

That is my shortlist... and upon reflection, I think this goes to Rob L.

The rationale is that it's almost identical to what I in fact did, and the quality of the retouching is to a very high standard. It's not overly embellished with effects, and the inclusion of a high resolution version really shows the quality of the work to good advantage.

Nice Work Rob.

Here's what I did.

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Over to you Rob.

Off to the lakes... back Sunday eve.
 
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Well done Rob, a well deserved win.... your edits are really good. :thumbs:

David.....I wasn't sure whether a re-edit is allowed once posted, otherwise I'd have redone mine.. but, anyway...have a great weekend...
 
That edit of yours is beautiful David - awesome shine on the paint and an excellent touch on the reflections on that tricky rear corner. Looks super natural. :clap:

Well done to Rob :thumbs:
 
Solo man said:
Well done Rob, a well deserved win.... your edits are really good. :thumbs:
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Thanks Lee, much appreciated.

overbez said:
That edit of yours is beautiful David - awesome shine on the paint and an excellent touch on the reflections on that tricky rear corner. Looks super natural. :clap:
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I agree, fantastic work - the attention to detail is amazing. Can I ask how long it took you?

I'll dig something out and get it up soon :thumbs:
 
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This is defintely the hardest part for me - trying to find an image worthy of putting up. I don't consider myself to be more than a beginner yet, and I don't have many keepers.

This one was a reject too, but I hope you guys can pull something worthwhile out of it. I'm thinking the crop tool may come in handy on this one, but who knows, maybe you'll think differently.....


IMG_1857 by R0b L, on Flickr

Raw here:
 
Yes Rob a really well deserved winner :clap:


Could you tell us a day & time when you intend calling this one - thanks :thumbs: and where was the shot taken :thinking:
 
Thanks for the comments Rhodese and congratulations to the winner! Apologies for the late reply I've been busy with uni work recently, will be submitting an edit for the next photo.
 
Not quite finished but its taken me a while already so here it is.

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Opened in camera RAW and adjusted sliders slightly, added lens correction profile

Cropped most of the rock on left side out, cloned the rest of the rock out to keep some width
Cropped again, removing from top and bottom to widen angle
Used spot healing brush/ clone tool/ patch tool to remove boats

Ctrl-J to replicate layer, changed layer style, added mask to replicated layer, filled mask in black with bucket tool, brushed in the parts of the layer I want to keep with white brush opacity set to 10% hardness 60-100%, one replicated layer used to edit water, one for sky, one for land on the horizon and one for land in the foreground

exported to lightroom, final adjustment of sliders + very slight vignette then saved for web
 
Congratulations Rob well done. :clap:

Here we go again.
Good no swirls to get rid of. :lol:

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Basic adjustments in ACR, open in PS. Copy layer.
On background copy layer,
Clone out speed boats.
Create sail boat, select, copy and past into new layer. Move and resize, tidy.
SAVE.
Create bushes (same as boat) move into position an resize.
Dodge and burn.
SAVE.
Create window by making three selections, copying and pasting into separate layers, position with move tool and transform.
Flatten window layers, clone over joins and obvious repeats and anomalies .
SAVE.
Move window over image.
Flatten, crop 3x2 format.
Create border using stroke command.
SAVE.
Save for web.

DATSIT.
Rhodese.
 
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5 exposures blended to brighten distant coast area and give a bit of shadow and depth to the clouds
Bit of cloning of some boats
Heavy crop (sorry Rob!!) But kept the full height of the sky. :thumbs:
Border :D
resize
sharpen

10-15 mins
 
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Went for a dreamy, summer 1970's/80s postcard-y type feel.

I used colour efex pro and it basically did all the work. It's a clever old program but I'm not so used to it yet to get anything spectacular out of it.

I did adjust the image a bit for clarity and various levels in camera raw before dropping it into colour efex to finish off.
 

sea_BT_edit1 by btyreman, on Flickr

opened RAW in LR4.4:

  • cropped
  • warmed up the WB
  • decreased highlights
  • increased shadows
  • increased contrast
  • increased vibrance
  • increased clarity
  • toncurve: boosted highlights
  • applied lens correction
  • finally created a filter on the sky with clarity increase and warmer WB
  • second filter with almost identical settings on the bottom of the image
  • exported as 1024 size jpeg
 
Mostly in PE10.

Chose to work on each segment of shot working downwards including individual selections for each the sky, the green hills in the background, the water, the foreground bushes, then lastly what was left with the cannon & man.

For each fiddled with levels, shadows, mid tones, saturation.

On the sky bit used the brush, with white, in new layer, to enhance whiteness in clouds.

Then general high pass sharpening using soft mode.

Then into LR4 to tweak using the brush on about 12 different areas to add boost to saturation mainly on reds bringing out reds then oranges in the foreground bushes.

Lastly zoomed into the 'man area' trying to make it stand out with sliding to the left, sliding to the right sliding up then sliding down (only joking with the up & down bit - but I wish those options were there :clap: ).

Phew done & took a long time mainly with the selection process.

 
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Rob L said:
I agree, fantastic work - the attention to detail is amazing. Can I ask how long it took you?
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Cheers

Approximately an hour. Basically, I cloned ut the poor paintwork and then healed it... then cloned in reflections from other parts of the car with a mix of lightness and colour blends across two different layers.
 
LR:

Slight highlight recovery
Slight shadow recovery
very slight clarity

PS:

Created black and white adjustment layer, with reduced blue and cyan, and increased yellow and green.

Faded mono layer back to 80% opacity.
Flattened
Increased saturation to bring colours back.
Crop.

5 mins

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My quick edit with a different aspect.


IMG_1857 by Hill_Andy, on Flickr

LR 4
Auto tone, added grad filter for sky.
grad filter for foreground with increase in sharpness & saturation
grad filter for sea, saturation
luminance smoothing
a little dodge in the foreground
crop
 
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Sorry for the late results.

You didn't have a lot to work with, and overall I think everyone did a great job.

The ones that stood out for me were: Neils - lots of detail. Andrews - liked the different perspective. Davids - nice and clean as usual. And finally Grahams - interesting crop which worked for me.

A particular well done to you four.

But there can be only one... and my winner is Graham (Overbez) - Well done :)

Thanks everyone, now let's see what you got Graham....
 
Rob L said:
But there can be only one... and my winner is Graham (Overbez) - Well done :)
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Cheers Rob - I felt a bit bad cropping out so much... but felt the sky deserved the top 2/3 of the shot. :thumbs:

Don't think we've had many close up images to go at...... so lets see where this takes us.

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RAW here - be patient, can take maybe half a minute for the page to load in my experience.
http://speedy.sh/Xqw8T/DSC-1714.NEF

Wednesday 4pm.......
 
Well done Graham,

Mmm this looks like a good candidate for B/W :thumbs:
 
Well done Graham. :thumbs:

I thought somebody will do a drawing convert and it may as well be me. ;)

Open in ACR, no adjustments, open in PS.
De-saturate, copy layer.
Invert copy layer, set blend to colour dodge.
Filter, other, minimum, start at 5 and adjust to liking.
Flaten.
Dodge to liking.
Crop.
Select all, stroke 10 pixels, to make border
Save for web.

Time taken, not long.
Rhodese.

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Well done Graham....

My edit....done in Lightroom..
I rotated and cropped.
Increased temp and tint.
Decreased highlights, shadows and blacks and contrast, increased whites.
Increased clarity and vibrance, decreased saturation.
In tone curve I decreased highlight, and increased shadows
The colour sliders I increased red, orange and purple
Used the adjustment contrast brush
Time taken about 15 minutes of fiddling

 
straighten
correct lens
sat +21
vibe +43
clarity +64
blacks +70
whites +23
shadows +83
highlight _100
contrast +31
expo -0.15
sharpened
increase blue
open ps sharpen again soft overlay just the centre of the pic
reduce noise in the top half
save done
 
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That's an interesting take on it Rhodese. :thumbs:


DSC_1714 by Hill_Andy, on Flickr

LR 5 -Beta

Auto tone
Auto white balance
Saturation -94
Shadows
Black clipping
white clipping
crop angle
luminance smoothing
clarity
sharpening
exposure
contrast
burn the loud whites at background left
export
 
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Decided to work entirely in LR this time. Rare for me.

Crop to straighten.
Lens profile and CA removal.

Then...

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Resulting in...

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8 mins
 
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Good show so far guys, 3 B&W, 3 colour.... though this might happen as I couldn't decide myself either. :lol:
 
All in LR4 except a slight/extra warming tint in Picasa

Temp +15
Tint +7
Exp +.12
Con + 36
HL -100
Shad +95
Wh +2
Bl -33
Clarity +64
Clicked B&W then
Orange +29
Yellow +38
Blue -39
Brush extra sharpening around the middle section
Very very slight vignette & I mean very very slight

This gives the B&W's the lead :lol:


 
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I did try a colour one with a bit of a desatuarated look but liked my B&W more so does this even up the numbers?

 
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Adobe Camera Raw:
Highlights down
Shadows Up
Lens Correction
Straigthen
Photoshop:
Curves adjustment layer - increase brigtness
Curves adjustment layer - decrease saturation
Selective sharpening
Tiny crop

Time taken: approx. 10 minutes.
 
Long time since I've done anything in this thread but here's mine that went a bit crazy (for me).

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Too many edits in LR4 to remember. Few notable things were:
Rotation, crop, distortion fixes.
Split toning with a tan colour.
Usual contrast, clarity, shadow, highlights sliders.
Tried BW but went back to colour.
Saturation adjustments to individual sliders.
Some painting with adjustment brush - 1. darkening+soften, 2. cooler colour+slight desaturation. (not done perfectly - bit of haloing)
 

industrial_machinery by btyreman, on Flickr

large here:http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/8739986290_4ecbe0ce29_o.jpg

opened in LR4 as a RAW file:

straight into Silver fx pro for BW conversion,

in silver fx;

adjusted the structure to a high setting,
added a white border,
changed to ilford iso 400 film emulation,
added a slight sepia tone. (I don't use presets)

saved as a TIFF and then further adjusted in LR,
increased highlights in the tonecurve,
sharpened overall,
saved as JPEG,

this one took around 15 minutes.
 
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