THE PP GAME!

Just had to take down my pic as it was the one before my final edit.
The only difference is that I needed to crop a bit off the corner which I had missed.


All in LR4

Was going for 3/4 crop but was already in use so decided on 1/1.
Straightened & corrected distortions.
HL + 32
Shad - 32
Whites - 65
Blacks - 11
Clarity + 18
Saturation - 50
Lots of fiddling with each colour in HSL until I liked it.
Spilt Toning fiddling
Lots of brushwork to quieten down the floor & walls as I wanted the emphasis on the luggage
Sharpened slightly but far more on luggage
Brushed saturation on luggage
Very slight vignette but I can't see it.
About 45 minutes

 
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basic sliders in raw, sharpen
save 3 copies and open photomatix
desatuating filter in topaz
finish

 
Edit in LR4 and Color Efex.

IMG_6577-Edit.jpg


LR4:
Camera correction, vertical straightening, crop
Small contrast inc.
Tweak whites and blacks to suitable clipping level.
Boost clarity and vibrance.
Reduce luminance and colour noise.
Sharpen

Color Efex:
Brilliance/warmth - more warmth.
Tonal contrast.
Detail contrast.

LR4:
Burn lower right.
Change temp/tint on mustard suitcase.
Saturate/sharpen suitcases.
Vignette. Readjust whites/blacks.
Desaturate red panels slightly.
 
Sorry folks, I lost a day due to the bank holiday. :D

Mmm, again this is proving to be difficult.
I'm suprised nobody did a bit more cropping. :thinking:
O.K I particularly like the very clean processing of Solo man's effort and the ancient tatty look from Rhosese.

there are so many styles of pp here and they all look equally good.
But when the style matches the Era it just suits the shot so it has to be Rhodese for his faded PP look.

well done Rhodese its over to you. :thumbs:

This was my original edit.


Baggage by Hill_Andy, on Flickr
 
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Congratulations Rhodese :clap:
 
Well done Rhodese :thumbs:.

Interesting edit Andrew, wouldn't have thought to crop that much.
 
Good afternoon all, well what can I say, I thought that I would be out of the running with the vibrant images presented by others and the “addition” to the notice board. Never say die, ay. Thank you Andrew, John and Lee.
As others have said, this is where it gets tricky, finding something a bit different. Well this is one taken on Boxing Day morning 2010, on the Costa Brava. I have made several versions, but I’m sure one of you “image magicians” will surprise me.

I'll call it Monday afternoon.

Good luck.

9999.jpg


Link to RAW. (I hope).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/74x5c9pnl986iqn/9999.NEF

Rhodese.
 
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Hi Rhodese can we have a day & time you will be closing & announcing the lucky one?

Also are you happy for us to crop as much or little as we want?
 
Interesting pic this one - should lead to some interesting results.

Here's my edit in LR4 (and tiny bit of PS after realising the horizon was wrong after all my editing so fixed it there)

9999-Edit.jpg


Crop, drop exposure, inc contrast, boost shadows+whites, lower highlights and blacks. Inc clarity and vibrance. Cloudy WB.
Bit of sharpening, lens correction etc.
Dodging on ground to add some variation.
Pinkish tinge added to right side.
Localised adjustment brush to increase contrast to man's jacket.
Yellow planting toned down.
Vignette.
 
basic tabs and reduce shadows, plus sharpen in raw, increased temp slightly
boosted contrast
worked on people and the fauna only with clarity
reduce noise in the sky and both gents jackets only
high pass sharpen and overlay on fauna and rocks
done




ppscene by flying giraffe, on Flickr
 
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DayDreamer said:
Hi Rhodese can we have a day & time you will be closing & announcing the lucky one?

Also are you happy for us to crop as much or little as we want?
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Good moanin,:wave:

John I’m calling it Monday afternoon lets say 2/3pm ish. Yes edit it any which way you like.

Neil, I don’t know if you are aware but on my screen, your image is enormous 3872 X 2592 pixels, I can’t see the entire image without scrolling, is this the way you intended to post.

Rhodese.
 
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On mine it shrinks down, when I first uploaded it at 1024, the image looked bad, I think it's photobucket as I looked at the image on there, and then at the original and it looked awful, aby ideas fellow pp peeps?
 
Thanks Rhodese :thumbs:

Neil's image is OK on my screen on IE10 & Opera so may be an (older or other) browser issue but I'm not that technically minded on such matters :gag:
 
Flying giraffe said:
Cheers john, as I say I think somehow photobucket reduces the quality
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I feel this may be a problem on all forums & such.

My son is a prolific photographer & only puts shots on Facebook but there is a significant reduction in quality when compare with the originals.

I have given up trying to sharpen/resize or any other techniques for my TP uploads as the uploaded shot does lose something. Like you I am on Photobucket but will be interested if anyone else has any tips?


:help:
 
mine resizes anything large down to 1024 too.... (google chrome if that makes a difference).

Suspect larger images posted directly into threads may well incur mod interest - the imgur method detailed by David a few pages back works well, apart from the teeny 640px thumbnail. Or flickr works too.
 
I’ve tried it with Chrome and IE. It’s the same on both. Is anybody else experiencing the same, is there a computer technician that knows what I have to do to alter this.
All my images are hosted here on TP.
ELP.
Rhodese.
 
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you could try flickr instead, it's much better quality, imgur looks good too but haven't used it.

I found that photobucket not only reduces quality, it also adds colour casts which looks bad on a calibrated screen so I stopped using it for those reasons.
 
Thanks all for your tips & I will look at Flickr :clap:
 
ok ive uploaded from flickr, ive also changed the first one too photobucket original, see any difference, this is why i have been losing :razz:
 
Sorry for the delay in replying.
Neil the images now look fine :thumbs:, the size is OK, the second one looks the best to me much brighter and better saturation.
Rhodese.
 
Mmmm for those that upload via Flickr there should be a points reduction (when judging) & for those that upload via Photobucket (me still - until I get my new specs at the end of next week) a points addition - is that OK Rhodese :wave:
 
DayDreamer said:
Mmmm for those that upload via Flickr there should be a points reduction (when judging) & for those that upload via Photobucket (me still - until I get my new specs at the end of next week) a points addition - is that OK Rhodese :wave:
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Yes OK, ............ as if. :naughty:
Rhodese.
 
Neil... that first one has no ICC profile whatsoever, and the second is in Adobe RGB 1998. Neither is idea for the web. You should be embedding sRGB as the colour profile if you want all browsers to display it correctly.
 



bit of fiddling this morning thats mostly forgotten now :eek:
midtone contrast increase
microdetails increase on foreground

this afternoon
corrected perspective to level horizon and pole by dragging up LHS

crop - moved lampost down and flag across to fit better within crop.
 


A bit of (admittedly crude) cloning to remove the lamp post and white streak in the sky.
Sharpened about 100%
Warming filter (85) at around 40
A masked hue/saturation layer to bring out the green of the foliage slightly
Curves to bring out the detail in the rocks
Masked contrast layer to bring out the detail on the man's back
Midtones boost in levels
Crop and vignette.
 
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As usual, I've not done anything that wouldn't compromise quality at full print resolution, and have made the link clickable to see it at that res.

Lens Profile added
CAs removed
rotate, crop, wide distortions removed

desaturated slightly
Shadow recovery

Custom made Kodak Portra 160NC profile added

5 mins.

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Neil... that first one has no ICC profile whatsoever, and the second is in Adobe RGB 1998. Neither is idea for the web. You should be embedding sRGB as the colour profile if you want all browsers to display it correctly.
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Good morning,
A question in reference to uploading, In PS I go to file, save for web, set to jpeg and then set the size to 1024 pixels on the longest side and adjust the quality until it’s bellow 200K. Optimized and convert to sRGB are ticked.
Then upload the image to Tp’s gallery and finally post in a thread.
The question is if I click on my uploaded image on a thread using KUSO the colour profile is not shown, there is reference to YCbCr. On other contributors’ images it is shown (RGB/sRGB), indeed on some all the information about the shooter/camera/image is available.
Am I doing something wrong?

Rhodese.
 
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Doesn't sound as if you are. It's whoever is hosting it that's stripping it away by the sounds of it.
 
No other B&W so thought I would give it a try although part of me feels shame with a sunny shot :shrug:

Nearly all in LR4.
Exp, Con, Whites up a little.

Shad & Clar up a lot.

Highlights down a medium amount.

Chose B&W then twiddled the individual colour sliders Red, Orange, Yellow, Green & Magenta all up a medium amount. Aqua, Blue & Purple down a lot.

Brushed the foreground to make stand out more.

Sharpened

Into PE10 to clone out bit in sky & add a bit more sharpening with soft overlay & finally, as Rhodese saved for the web longest end 1024 pixels.

Into Picasa & thought a slight vignette to add to the feel of the people being spied on through an aperture :lol:

Only took about ten minutes as I thought I'd done enough & any more I would b*gger it :clap:

 
Could any of you guys offer me any tips as per my thread (below) in this same section?

I would be most grateful as I am just discovering, even being wheelchair bound out of the house, I can actually get along some of the woodland walks which really is something new for me.

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=486985
 
So down to the judging,
andrewp. Andrew your edit has a lovely warm feel to it and the crop is helping the dominance of the main character.
Flying giraffe. Neil a good edit but there is nothing grabs me.
Overbez. Graham a similar crop to Andrew. I like what you did with the lamp and flag but the actual image appears thin.
Matt. Welcome to TP. Matt what a warm and colourful picture this is, the removal of the lamppost helps give a more wide-angle look, but I think you have over sharpened, causing a halo along skyline.
Pookeyhead. David your edit is well, what can I say, its spot on, love the film touch. When I look at the largest image, the detail is such that I can see that the man sitting on the right of the bench is giving me the evil eye.
DayDreamer. John the only B+W entry and a striking edit indeed, I love the sky.

As I said in the opener, I have made several versions of this and all your efforts have appeal, but there can be only one.
In reverse order, it’s…. 3rd goes to DayDreamer….2nd goes to Pookeyhead and the winner is….andrewp. Well done Andrew.
The version I have chosen for my edit is quite similar.

My edit.
It has been quite sometime since I did this and I really don’t remember all the steps. Basically I selected the main man enlarged him, cropped and converted to mono, added a border.

WATCHING_.jpg


Rhodese.
 
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congrats Andrew.
 
Yes indeed congratulations Andrew but get your bloody pic up as we are all sitting at our PC's & Laptops waiting :lol:

(Ooops this will loose me brownie points in the next rounds judging :gag:)
 
DayDreamer said:
Yes indeed congratulations Andrew but get your bloody pic up as we are all sitting at our PC's & Laptops waiting :lol:

(Ooops this will loose me brownie points in the next rounds judging :gag:)
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:lol:

Well done Andrew that tint certainly lifts the shot and warms up the pic :thumbs:
 
Nice one Andrew....

CLICKIT FOR BIG.... ;)


Pretty straightforward HDR blend of the 5 exposures I made in DPP (-2 to +2)
(WB set off the white of the central forground house lower section)
Slight sharpen
darken and desaturate foreground trees
increase reds and yellows in the sky

Cloned bushes over the fence in the foreground
crop top and bottom
Tried a few crops off the sides but didn't improve so left it full width.

a quick 10 minutes. :thumbs:
 
crop and straighten
sliders with clarity right up
save 2 copies, one for sky and one for the rest, the sky being lower to bring out the clouds
sharpen first copy
overlay and erase the sky to reveal the one below, save
slight pop filter on all
high pass filter hard overlay on centre of pic only
done


ppgamescene by flying giraffe, on Flickr
 
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Lightroom:

Apply lens profile
Remove CAs

highlight recovery
increase blacks
black and white conversion with red filter

PS:

Detail Extraction/High Pass

Lightroom:

Apply custom made Delta 100 preset
Split Tone

8 mins.

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