Post Processing Game

Robinson Crusoe wrote in post #18467669
Although I couldn't come up with something useful, these photos are fun to play with

Mmmm, pity you did not try

Stiga wrote in post #18467689
Workflow?

Merged the middle exposures in PTGui.
In PS I used Lum Masks to adjust tone and color.
Used NIK CEP4 to add a little extra contrast and then add some fog along the top.

Stiga wrote in post #18467690
Dis you use all the images?

Yes. Separately in AP I merged the 3 shot bracket for each side as an HDR and then merged the two halves of the scene together as a pano. Went to Noiseware to add considerable NR. Then back to AP to remove the people and add a few tweaks to WB, contrast and vibrancy, exported as a JPEG. I used to use Noiseware quite often but the modern sensors have gotten so good that I rarely have to use it anymore.

DagoImaging wrote in post #18467720
Merged the middle exposures in PTGui.
In PS I used Lum Masks to adjust tone and color.
Used NIK CEP4 to add a little extra contrast and then add some fog along the top.

Thanks for this.

rrblint wrote in post #18467731
Yes. Separately in AP I merged the 3 shot bracket for each side as an HDR and then merged the two halves of the scene together as a pano. Went to Noiseware to add considerable NR. Then back to AP to remove the people and add a few tweaks to WB, contrast and vibrancy, exported as a JPEG. I used to use Noiseware quite often but the modern sensors have gotten so good that I rarely have to use it anymore.

Thanks for the explanation. BTW, I did warn you about (small sensor) noise.

Stiga wrote in post #18467691
Mmmm, pity you did not try

Well, I tried. But couldn't clone the people out as I wanted. And even I'm not impressed by the outcome, it's a little over my editing skills at this level If I have time I may give it another try.

Robinson Crusoe wrote in post #18467758
Well, I tried. But couldn't clone the people out as I wanted. And even I'm not impressed by the outcome, it's a little over my editing skills at this level If I have time I may give it another try.

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Maybe you should leave some figures in frame to give a sense of scale !

And HDR.
created HDR images from each bracket in Aurora 2018 and then stitched in PTGui. Then applied tone/color adjustments.

Hey folks! It's been awhile since I've been able to participate but finally managed to squeeze in some extra time over the last few days to play with this image.
I started with ACR then off to CS6 HDR PRO and it sucked with handling the ghosting so I used the 3 left side images through HDR PRO and I think it was the
middle expo. of the right side, then used CS6 Photomerge for the pano. There was still some ghosting of the people on the left side so I cloned them out.
I just kind of played around off and on over the last few days until I liked it then ran it through Nik Viveza 2 for a little more detail. Please don't judge me
because I'm not sure if I'll be able to (have time) participate in the next round.

Looking good Douglas, glad to have you back.

So, guys, it's crunch time! I was very pleased to see so may attempts so tyhanks to all for having a go.

Here are my potted comments on all your masterpieces

Benitoite wrote in post #18466974
Raw converted by dcraw, brackets processed in LuminanceHDR 2.5.1, stitched in Hugin 2016, post in RawTherapee 5.3

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A likeable image and you have highlighted the stormy mood. Colours good but the gold tops to the stones just does not look right!

DagoImaging wrote in post #18467420

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Blown sky and fuzzy. The stormy mood has been lost

DagoImaging wrote in post #18467802
And HDR.
created HDR images from each bracket in Aurora 2018 and then stitched in PTGui. Then applied tone/color adjustments.

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Then tried it as a watercolor...

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A much better result! The figures add scale so I am glad you retained them. Gold tops to the stones don’t look right somehow.

A lot of effort here, Douglas. But, to my eyes, you have a colour cast.

Mozes wrote in post #18467003

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Too much! See the guidlines for this thread: “And don't go overboard with the editing. So no adding in sharks jumping out of the water for extra coolness. The idea is to finish the photo, not to edit it so much that it's unrecognizable.
“

navydoc wrote in post #18467190
Merged 0Ev images in PHotoshop. Merged -2Ev images in Photoshop then blended the two merged layers for the cloudy sky and cropped. Cloned out the people, applied noise reduction using Nik Define 2 and bumped up the detail and saturation using Nik Colorefex 4. Cropped to 21:9 then to 16:9 for a cinematic look. Reduced image size to 1280 on the long side and saved.

In retrospect, I should have added a dragon.

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Just the kind of quality and expertise that we have come to expect from Gene. The stormy mood is weel portrayed but I am sorry that all the figures were removed.

Pebal wrote in post #18467137
SNS-HDR -> ICE -> SNS-HDR

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Very similar to my result, but that is to be expected as I use SNS-HDR as well because the colour rendering is so natural. I am please that Sebastian retained the figures but I think I can see some ghosting on the right.

Robinson Crusoe wrote in post #18467758
Well, I tried. But couldn't clone the people out as I wanted. And even I'm not impressed by the outcome, it's a little over my editing skills at this level If I have time I may give it another try.

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A bit flat but thanks for trying, Robinson. Glad you thought it was a fun exercise

rrblint wrote in post #18467560
Affinity Photo

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A very good result but I am sorry that all the figures were cloned out. Very natural colours.

The winner this week is Pebal and the runner up is Navydock. Congrats to both of you.

As I know that Sebastian does not take photos, I am handing the torch for the next game to Gene.

Here is my Stone Circle image set. After noise reduction and lens correction in Photoshop, I half-processed the 6 resulting DNG files to remove ghosting and saved the two 32bitradiancee file. The latter were then tonemapped using MS ICE before final minor manipulation in Photoshop.

Stiga wrote in post #18470298
The winner this week is Pebal and the runner up is Navydock. Congrats to both of you.

As I know that Sebastian does not take photos, I am handing the torch for the next game to Gene.

Thanks. Here is an image that gets help from the dynamic range of the Sony a7r sensor. The SOOC shot is below. As far as I'm concerned, you can be as creative as you'd like with it just as many other edits have been here in the past, including my edits. Just be sure to describe what you did so others can learn from it since that's the point of doing these edits in the first place.

The raw file converted to dng format:

http://www.ussoriskany​.us …s/game/House/DS​C03764.dng

As a side note, my username is navydoc because "doc" is the nickname given to Navy Corpsmen and Dental Technicians as opposed to the name of a structure where ships tie up to.

done nothing in ACR.
In CC.
just added the ship and airplane.
then matched all the colors.
and some shadow lifting.