Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge

Indoor Outdoor scene is challenging, so I tried to get some balance between two raw conversions, one with a 4 stop boost with retinex filter, and one without, layer masked composite.

I went with more contrast and desaturated....

Nice edits so far!

Just a straight edit, raised shadows, lowered highlights and a bit of selective burning and dodging.

I don't know how much detail we're suppose to give on the edit. So I'll just say everything I did.

Set WB to "daylight", slight bump to contrast, cut the highlights and increased shadows. Overall clarity, vibrance and saturation got a slight bump. Increased the green saturation channel to bring out the tree a little bit.

Applied a radial filter to the entry way and bumped the exposure for inside where the ladies are sitting by 3/4 stop. Turned down the contrast for this area. Slight drop to the shadows. With slight raise highlights. Bumped clarity and saturation a bit.

Other actions of note:
Enabled profile correction
Remove chromatic aberration

Nice ones so far folks. Thanks for participating. Can't wait to see some more.

Howdy folks. Been a bit out-of-touch for a while due to heart surgery. But all fixed up now and well on the road to recovery.

First thing I did was adjust the exposure on the interior. I like to do that in Lr. Here's what I wound up with:

Good to have you back BITR. Glad you're doing well.

Thanks Mark. Went to the hospital thinking I had walking pneumonia. Came out with a quadruple bypass. Docs did a good job though. Surgery happened on 11/21 and I was home for Thanksgiving.

What a story, Bump! Glad you went to a hospital and are now recovering. Sending you a lot of good healing vibes

Ok. So time to announce the winner. Thank you very much to everyone who participated. Great edits all around. Ultimately the edit I was most drawn to was Cormac's so congratulations! Nothing too fancy but a strong basic edit that made good use of colour and contrast that left a little mystery in the shadows for the viewer to chew on. Nicely done. Honourable mention goes to timd35. I didn't think that I would appreciate this kind of look as much as I did. It was close! Thanks again everyone.

PS bumpintheroad - Please accept my well wishes for a quick and complete recovery.

nqjudo wrote in post #17861401
Ok. So time to announce the winner. Thank you very much to everyone who participated. Great edits all around. Ultimately the edit I was most drawn to was Cormac's so congratulations! Nothing too fancy but a strong basic edit that made good use of colour and contrast that left a little mystery in the shadows for the viewer to chew on. Nicely done. Honourable mention goes to timd35. I didn't think that I would appreciate this kind of look as much as I did. It was close! Thanks again everyone.

PS bumpintheroad - Please accept my well wishes for a quick and complete recovery.

Thank you, appreciate the complement and honorable mention

Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge[/SIZE]
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