THE PP GAME!

@Farmerjim
Well.... whether you're sailing close to the wind with your edits or not, they sure do make me chuckle..... your 'write ups' are amusing too.
 
OK then a little earlier than intended but I don’t think an hour will make any difference.
It would appear that my choice of image was not very popular and there was me thinking things were hotting up in the PP game, ah well.

David.
A well-executed edit as one would expect from you, I can’t fault it other than to say your desaturation has not helped a lack lustre start image.

Graham.
You have certainly made them coats bounce but I think the rest of it is flat.

Lee.
You right on the money with the colour/wetness of the rocks and moss but why oh why did you crop it so.

Jim.
Ten out of ten for novelty and well done for removing the marker irons and string.
You can play with me anytime. :banana:

The fact only four bothered to enter I am not going to do a 1.2.3 it is just a winner and the winner is …
Lee, purely on the fact that the wetness comes over so well.

So its over to you Lee, I hope there’s more entries than this one attracted.

My edit.
I have to admit it was never going to hang above the mantelpiece.
I did clone out the strings and bottle, the rest was just ACR.

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Rhodese.
 
Rhodese said:
Graham.
You have certainly made them coats bounce but I think the rest of it is flat.
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You're right Rhodese... my idea looked soooo much better in my head... maybe I should have just stuck with a SC on the hi-viz vests.

Well done Lee - man on fire at the moment!!! :clap:
 
Congrats Lee, well deserved:thumbs:
Thanks for the comments and feedback Rhodese:ty:

Looking forward to the next game.................
 
@Rhodese .... thank you for choosing my image.....
I found your image hard to edit lol.... so the less distractions the easier it was to work with....and the dog was just annoying :lol:
 
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overbez said:
You're right Rhodese... my idea looked soooo much better in my head... maybe I should have just stuck with a SC on the hi-viz vests.

Well done Lee - man on fire at the moment!!! :clap:
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Thanks Graham.... by the way, I'm not a man :lol:

Farmerjim said:
Congrats Lee, well deserved:thumbs:
Thanks for the comments and feedback Rhodese:ty:

Looking forward to the next game.................
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Thanks Farmerjim
 
Oh & by the way a very well done for the win :banana:
 
Here you go,

Open in ACR, auto. Open in PS.
Crop 16x9.
Copy layer. Name it RIVER.
Select the boat; refine edge, output to new layer with mask.
SAVE.
On the RIVER layer, erase boat with content aware fill.
Still on the RIVER layer, tidy up foreground right with clone. In addition, use brush tool loaded with the pastel blue from beside the boat.
Move the boat onto third and tidy up.
SAVE.
Flatten.
Levels. Auto curves.
Dodge and burn.
Copy layer, change to mono, drop opacity to 20%.
Flatten.
Select all, use stroke for border.
SAVE.
Save for web.


Click for a bigun.
Rhodese.
 
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You've scared 'em all off Rhodese..... Where is everyone?? Xmas shopping??

Lightzone..
Set WB
Lifted shadows
increase detail (quite a bit)
incraese saturation and vibrance

PS
Cloned out boat (too central)
horizontal flip
cloned A/C units from first building
move up triangle of bank
crop top and bottom

 
Hi all and Congratulations Lee a super edit!

In PS
Opened in camera raw adjust shadows and highlights
New duplicate layer selected boat.
Tidy up bottom of image clone out boat from original layer.
Paste boat layer resize and moved it over a little.
Paste boat again resize and change colour with hue saturation.
Flatten image
Sharpen/crop
Increase vibrance and flatten


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LR Temp 5900, Tint 17, Contrast -26, HL -100, Shads 100, Whites -64, Blacks -33, Clarity 100, Vibrance 7, Sats -5, Sats/Blue 67, Lum/Red 100, Blue 76, heavily sharpened, Reduced noise, Slight Vignette. Lots& lots of brush points to bring out detail in water & reds in surrounding countryside.

PE10 cropped 16 x 9, warmed up a bit & reduced sat a bit, cloned out bank in foreground.

20 minutes'ish.

 
Couldn't really get going on this one for some reason, must be the time of year!

Opened ACR
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Then in PS removed the left hand bit of bank and played with shadows and highlights
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Sharpened a bit. Selected trees and hill and increased saturation and decreased saturation of river and yards.
Removed the moored boat and substituted a large fishy type animal then put in a rowing boat for balance but it doesn't balance and it's in the wrong place. Added a tidal bore.
Still didn't like result so ran it through Photomatrix and went for a monochrome/ tonemapped shot.
Nearly didn't enter as I'm not sure about end result :)


rivertotpp-Recovered_tonemapped by Farmejim, on Flickr
 
Ok, I'll call this now..... and I'll just give a quick bit of critique, as no one has anything glaringly wrong with their edits.

Rhiodese....nice edit, very similar to mine....maybe a little flat for me though.

Overbez...nice bright edit, I like the crop, and I like your idea to remove the boat(no idea why I didn't think of that), and I like that you flipped it too...but you and a few others opted to leave that bit of sand in, I expected everyone to remove it lol....I also really like how you brought out the colour in the trees.

Seajay...... I like your edit, but maybe not the inclusion of the other boat

DayDreamer..... another nice edit, and I liked how you removed the bit of sandy bank

Flying Giraffe.....another edit I can't really fault, nice colour on the reflections........

Farmerjim....the only one to convert to monochrome, and it works very well, I like it a lot.....but, your inclusion of the 'fishy' thing was maybe not your best idea :lol:, however, I like your idea of the rowing boat..... without the fish thing you may have pulled it off.

I'm giving this to........ DayDreamer.... as your edit is probably the closest to how it was at the time.

My edit ......



And thanks to everyone for taking the time to put up an edit
So....over to you DayDreamer :thumbs:
 
Nice one John... :clap: local knowledge paying off for you :thumbs: ;)
 
Thanks Lee or should I say 'Solo Woman':p

overbez said:
Nice one John... :clap: local knowledge paying off for you :thumbs: ;)
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Thanks Graham :thumbs: - It's about a couple of hundred yards from where I live but not been there for a long time so forgotten it :thinking:

Seajay said:
YEAH! Well done John!
a well deserved win :banana:
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Thanks Cathy good to see you back - hoping your moving went OK'ish :)

I'd better get searching for something to put up :thinking:
 
Sorry it's not very inspiring but it's been a long time since I was outside with a camera. And even though I have two (Ooops just the one now - sold the P7700 in last few days) advanced compacts that shoot RAW I've never been happy so am looking again at getting a 'proper' camera - a DLSR so I'll be able to put up some better pics. Yes I know a bad photographer blames his kit!!!! :nuts:

I will call it Friday evening so deadline for entries will be 8.00 p.m. & my decision as soon after that as I can :thumbs:

It is The Pavillions at Torquay .



RAW file converted to DNG file here https://www.dropbox.com/s/wlc3pm3odin6sho/TP Torquay The Pavillions.dng
 
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Made 3 exposures using ACR in CS2
Auto everything, and then exp at -1.15, -3.15, and 0.85

Merged in SNS-HDR
quite heavy on the microcontrast to bring out detail

PS
slight rotate, slight vertical perspective correction
cloned in RH edge to not be too tight to building
cloned gulls, hopefully not the sacred ones this time
General tidy up - signs, person, manhole, notices on trees

Picasa
crop, darken FG with grad filter after rotating 180º, vignette

20 minutes.

 
"Oh no" the gulls have been overbezed again, poor gulls never stood a chance. :gag:, :runaway:,:lol:.

Rhodese.
 
Well done John.:clap:

My edit.
Open in ACR, see screen shot.

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Open in PS, straiten with crop, crop 16x9 and add space to R/H side.
Copy.
Clone out people and the stairway, manhole, signs.
SAVE.
Make a selection of the unwanted section on the R/H side, the flats and such, including inside the railings.
SAVE.
Clone sky into the selection covering all that was not wanted.
SAVE.
Create grass verge by copy and pasting and move into position. Use trees on the skyline left to break up sky/ground join.
SAVE
Flatten, levels, curves.
Dodge and burn.
Select all and make a border using stroke.
SAVE.
Save for web.

Rhodese.

Please note no gulls were cloned in the making of this image.
This image was made under the supervision of RSPCG. :lol:, :exit:
 
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Rhodese said:
"Oh no" the gulls have been overbezed again, poor gulls never stood a chance. :gag:, :runaway:,:lol:.

Rhodese.
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Lucky I don't live by the seaside..... but when they're too small to be recognisable, they have to go!! :lol:
 
Seagulls are a bleeding nuisance especially when visitors feed them. The gulls start flying round & round in a frenzy & I've seen more than one person dive bombed & their heads cut open. I've seen them nick peoples ice creams & such out of their hands. But if they try & get my ice cream (I love ice cream) I'll buy a blunderbuss & shoot the b******s :boxer:

So report me to the RS*** whatever :p
 
Kept it natural and gone for quality above all else.

LR5:
Highlight reduction
+10 clarity
Remove CA
Manual removal of non linear CA
Sharpen +35 with no detail or radius settings... just to crisp it up a bit at the edges. I suspect this wasn't taken with a great lens.
Crop and rotate
Reduction in green saturation.. it looked a bit false to me.
Curves to increase contrast and maintain shadow detail.

PS CC:
Removal of people
Removal of sign tied to tree
Removal of gulls...and their crap off the floor
B&W adjustment layer with -blue and cyan to darken sky, -green to darken grass, and +red to lighten path
Luminosity blend with colour layer.

convert to 8 bit
embed sRGB

Save as JPEG minimum compression.

10 mins approx.

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straighten, crop auto settings plus increase clarity and vibe
sharpen
remove CA
clone spot in sky, white marks on the ground and the manhole
clarity filter for the sky
done
 
Just a quick question......I'm a nubie to Elements 11 and my pp skills very limited, but learning :D

Could some one tell me how to open the photo that's to be edited in ACR?

I've had a go,.... click on image, save image as, but then I can only open it like a jpeg not as a raw file :thinking:

Thanks :)
 
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Phil-D said:
Just a quick question......I'm a nubie to Elements 11 and my pp skills very limited, but learning :D

Could some one tell me how to open the photo that's to be edited in ACR?

I've had a go,.... click on image, save image as, but then I can only open it like a jpeg not as a raw file :thinking:

Thanks :)
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Ooooops I may be confusing things here. My RAWs from my P7700 are not easily opened in some software so I converted it to a DNG file. I've amended this fact just under the photo in my post. So just save as the DNG file - open PE11 - then just open & it should open automatically in the 'Camera Raw' part - just tried in my PE10 and it did. But welcome to the thread Phil :welcome:
 
Thanks John, yes that's worked :thumbs:

I can't see me contributing anything useful to the thread but its interesting to have a go and has to help with the learning :)
 
Phil - you have a go as it's a great way to learn & good fun :thumbs:
 
Done in Lightroom 4
Rotated, adjusted horizontally, and then flipped.
Decreased highlights and whites, increased shadows and blacks....and decreased saturation.
Adjusted the curve graph
Adjusted yellow, green, aqua and blue luminance and saturation
Then sharpened a little.
Time taken 10 minutes.

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By god you've to have some patience for this cloning lark! :D

And I just realised that you give a description of what you did :oops:

Well......I moved a few sliders in ACR thanks to John :thumbs:

Cropped and straightened a little

Then cloned out the people,sign,grate,buildings to right and added a couple more lights to top right hand side.........all not very well :lol:

But it was my first go at cloning and as they say.........things can only get better :D


TP Torquay The Pavillions-2 by Phil D 245, on Flickr
 
As always some good edits but really bracing myself for Jims so where are you Jim please give us something to chuckle over ;)

Phil there you go I told you it was easy :naughty: well easy'ish ish ish isn't it :lol:
 
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