Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge

Experimenting with moon/reflection behind the fisherman . . .

Well, the week is up and I must say that I am very pleased with the response and the variety of interpretation

My top two choices are

1. 'Peano

Thanks everyone.

https://www.dropbox.co​m …elm001y/_U3A452​5.CR3?dl=0

Not sure about the rules but just have at it.

The rules are here but we are pretty relaxed about them. If there are not many responses the 7-day rule is often extended.

Nice image.
It dont need a lot off edit to create something.
Just a gradient filter.
selected the people and give it some more contrast so they pop a little.
Some highlight reduction in the sky.
And final removed a street lighting.
now i uploeded it, i see that perhaps the lady with the red coat, needs a little more red...

Converted .cr3 to .dng (for Aurora); Aurora HDR, Misty Landscape, slight lens adjustments, cropping, and some lightening; Luminar Ai to remove the light pole (but not as good a job as Mozes), slight sharpen.

Firstly let me say what an interesting shot to work with; there is so much going on and I can see several images within it. Now to my workflow.

1. DxO Photolab 4 for lens correction, denoise and, in this instance, perspective correction with Viewpoint. The result was exported as a DNG which, in turn was used for all PP work

2. Trusty steed SNS-HDR which, IMO, generates very natural results

Very nice treatments Martin.

Here are me edits, Both were done in Topaz Studio with a basic correction and a gradient, the second one has a soft HDR effect.
Obviously I got rid of the lamp post and straightened the image a bit but not completely

RDWP wrote in post #19304758
Very nice treatments Martin.

Thanks, Rob. My ton of software is paying off!

P.S. I have just had to reload the images at a lower quality level as the first lot were all over 2.5MB!

As Martin said - there are several separate compositions within. Took this smaller arrangement to work on. First one, Aurora HDR: initial crop and Vivid setting at 58, plus increased colour Vibrance. Then to Luminar Ai to erase and/or clone out a few small distractions etc; added a bit of Glow and increased temperature slightly; placed yellow towel this side of light pole.

This one: making use of the street light for a different look. Aurora for crop and Misty Landscape as base. Then to Luminar Ai for similar erasing/cloning; placed sun glow on pole and masked all but the downward rays/glow; swapped in one of my gibbous moon skies; Adjusted Toning, Colour Harmony and some general burning in the sky. (I should have darkened the cityscape behind before I applied the streetlight lighting; next time.)

Question: Anyone using Topaz Sharpen Ai as a plug-in from Aurora HDR? Used to work fine but lately - most of the time - when it is imported back into Aurora it is a cropped version of the original - rest of the image missing (see screen captures below, before and after). Not related to the area I was previewing in Topaz. Doesn't happen when saving from Topaz as a stand-alone. Can't see anything on this on POTN Aurora or Topaz threads. Only thing on the WWW I've found is that someone reported similar when Topaz was used as a plugin with another software, not related to Luminar products. No solution I've seen. Wonder if its a quirk of the software or my hardware combo.

Rob, I think you should also post this observation on RAW, Post Processing & Printing as well as here.