Post Processing Game

SharpShot wrote in post #18402415
Cropped to my liking, adjusted white balance, split toning, and applied a number of selective adjustments. Beautiful scene to work on.

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Welcome sharp shot! Where I'm standing to take the picture is my personal zen focal point. Across the pond from there is where I imagine myself meditating looking back at that direction. It's good for an instant 10-point systolic blood pressure drop. I think everyone should know a place like that.

Processed in the SNS-HDR Pro.

Pebal wrote in post #18402685
Processed in the SNS-HDR Pro.

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Very good Pebal, I like your's the best of the lot, so you are this week's winner!

Second Place goes to rrblint !

Thanks Benitoite.
Rrblint, please post next photo.

Thanks Pebal and Benitoite.

HERE'S the next challenge, a young hawk I found.


SOOC:

Hello hawk.

kirk

ACR for adjustments to exposure, white/black points, shadows and highlights. In PSCC, I removed the branch in front of the hawk then used Topaze Simplify Color Efex Pro 4 to enhance contrast and color. Selective blurring of background. Select iris and copy to new layer and changed the blend mode to 'screen'. Crop, resize and sharpen for uploading here.

all what i have to say is, lose that lens..

SNS-HDR 2 -> Photoshop -> denoise - lots of clobe stamping and content-aware fill to remove twigs. -> background blurring -> enhancement of the bird using Topaz filters -> crop and resize.

I took a long break from this thread but felt like working on this image. Processed in PS, tried to remove as much CA as I could...
Processed more using several gradients, getting rid of some branches, cropping, cloning and stamping and here it is
Couldn't be bothered removing that branch in front of the bird

Processed in RawTherapee 5.2

Okay time for the judging:

kirkt wrote in post #18407773
Hello hawk.

kirk

Lovely edit Kirk. I really like the muted colors.

navydoc wrote in post #18407841
ACR for adjustments to exposure, white/black points, shadows and highlights. In PSCC, I removed the branch in front of the hawk then used Topaze Simplify Color Efex Pro 4 to enhance contrast and color. Selective blurring of background. Select iris and copy to new layer and changed the blend mode to 'screen'. Crop, resize and sharpen for uploading here.

Top notch edit. Love the added contrast, crop and removal of the branch.

Mozes wrote in post #18408235
all what i have to say is, lose that lens..

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Very true! Care to make a donation? But the point here was to minimize the CA not exacerbate it!

Stiga wrote in post #18408353
SNS-HDR 2 -> Photoshop -> denoise - lots of clobe stamping and content-aware fill to remove twigs. -> background blurring -> enhancement of the bird using Topaz filters -> crop and resize.

Excellent edit. I like the contrast and branch removal.

itsallart wrote in post #18408411
I took a long break from this thread but felt like working on this image. Processed in PS, tried to remove as much CA as I could...
Processed more using several gradients, getting rid of some branches, cropping, cloning and stamping and here it is
Couldn't be bothered removing that branch in front of the bird

Beautiful crop and edit.

Benitoite wrote in post #18409676
Processed in RawTherapee 5.2

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Great edit. Another one with muted colors.

I like the edits(except Mozes') and it was hard to choose a winner, but I think that navydoc takes 1st place with itsallart coming in 2nd.

Take it away navydoc or itsallart if navydoc is otherwise occupied.

Thanks very much. Here's one from last year of a few of my African Daisies.

Here's the jpg SOOC except for resizing to post here.

Congratulations Gene, well done.