Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge

NigelD wrote in post #19194270
Had a bit of fun. Selected a few areas to match up heights, then Polar co-ordinates, selected centre and put in an eye and blended.

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Now you need to make a smaller tower and add it to the circle and turn it into a clock . (The big hand and little hand of a clock)

Pretty cooooool, way to go

Doh! Another challenge to do...

Apologies for being absent from this thread lately - a very busy few weeks with some projects. ANYway, I had started a couple of things when this challenge was first posted based on stitching a pano from the two images (Hugin) after an HDR treatment in Aurora. Then Luminar (4 and Ai): cloned out the tower, filled in a couple trees etc, tried some canned "looks" (didn't like most) to make a kind of empty canvas for the sky, with that nice landscape as a frame. Below are a few of these, using my own skies. In each case I also played with positioning light colour tone contrast etc.

1. A Sunset look

2. Moon Shot, large and high. Worked up the moon a bit in my ancient version of PaintShop Pro. Moon was photographed in the sky about 20% brighter than this.

3. Another moon shot, now lower in the sky and faded ground; also cropped frame down and flipped the groundscape. Is it just me, or do things in the sky like moons almost always look better to the right of centre frame, not the left?

Final throw.

Topaz Clarity and, because I prefer lighthouses, I pasted one.

LR basic adj, lens correction, > PS extend canvas add foreground and backround, adj curve, gradient, straighten tower.

i must say that i realy like the last image on the page here from Bianchi.

So congrats, and surprise us with a nice new photo

Mozes wrote in post #19196387
i must say that i realy like the last image on the page here from Bianchi.

So congrats, and surprise us with a nice new photo

Excellent choice.

Mozes wrote in post #19196387
i must say that i realy like the last image on the page here from Bianchi.

So congrats, and surprise us with a nice new photo

Stiga wrote in post #19196398
Excellent choice.

Thank you Mozes & Martin

File is here.

1) https://www.dropbox.co​m …clr1q97/_DSC416​2.ARW?dl=0


Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge

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Rules are simple:

Download the image file from the current week

Contestants will have 7 days to edit the image and post their edited version to the thread (as many entries as you like)

The owner of the original image will choose a winner

The winner will copy & paste this post and include a new downloadable image link

The new image must be unedited / SOOC (straight our of camera), full-resolution, and in a RAW format, ie. CR2, DNG, TIF, etc

The purpose of this game is to be creative and learn new editing techniques. You must give some insight into exactly how you went about editing the image. For example, increased shadows sliders, reduced highlights, local sharpening, white balance adjustment, specific filters used, tone curve adjustments, etc. Comments and/or questions regarding the edits are encouraged.

Here is my first cut. I may play with it a bit more. There is a lot of potential for this high resolution image.

PL4 NR, perspective and horizon correction, selective tone and contrast, vibrancy, split tone and vignette.

just a litle movement to set the horizon straight.
very slight crop
Bring back details from the highlighted parts.
a bit more contrast in de buildings and trees.
sharpen the image.
resized for potn.

great shot by the way, i did like it.

My non-entry entry. Somebody had to do it...

A sunset feel . . . new sky, obviously.