Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge

Ill give it a go. I'm a Rookie

It's an interesting photo to give it a try
I believe negative space is so important in this photo so I didn't do much crop

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Tweaked the levels. Cleaned-up the background some. Added blur to the reflection. Sharpened a bit then noise reduction. Played with the crop for a while before deciding on this:

OK, I went totally crazy with this one; not the greatest edit but more for fun along the lines that everything is lit like a Christmas tree. I placed the boat on on a busy background of the Hong Kong harbor from my recent trip

Sorry guys I don't have a ton of time to write up a comprehensive response. I liked many of the edits, but the win goes to bumpintheroad!

bumpintheroad wrote in post #17679094
Tweaked the levels. Cleaned-up the background some. Added blur to the reflection. Sharpened a bit then noise reduction. Played with the crop for a while before deciding on this:

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I like that you removed the distractions in the background and I like the clean look.

I wish someone would have removed the bumpers though, those are also distracting.

Congrats bumpintheroad!

Bumpintheroad, what's the next challenge?

vertigo235 wrote in post #17680881
Sorry guys I don't have a ton of time to write up a comprehensive response. I liked many of the edits, but the win goes to bumpintheroad!

I like that you removed the distractions in the background and I like the clean look.

I wish someone would have removed the bumpers though, those are also distracting.

Congrats bumpintheroad!

I liked the blurring of the water, I never think of that stuff

Thank you Vertigo. And apologies for the delay in posting a new challenge.

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 (1 entry per week)
  
  
• 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
  (Dropbox works well for uploading and linking these large files)

Here is my go at it. I fixed the lens distortion, adjusted the exposure, lightened up some shadows, moved the pier to the right, cropped, cloned some trees an who knows what other minor tweaks I did

RAWtherapee conversion: Distortion Correction -0.5, Vignette Correction, Grad Filter, L*a*b* Lightness 27, Chromaticity 14, Contrast 12, Black -5821, Crop, Rotate 1.5, USM, Edge Sharpening 4 iterations, NR, Highlight compression off, Tone mapping, Resize.
GIMP: cloned out birds.

My try, didn't like cutting off most of the photo though. Changed to portrait, made adjustments in LR, shadows, highlights, etc

Here's my take. Corrected the FE distortion, cropped, added the sunset and tweaked the colors.

Cropped square for composition, adjusted vibrance, exposure, curves and then applied splatter filter (masked off a heavier filter effect for the sky).

Bunch of LR Adjustments, distortion correction, fired up Photoshop and did content aware fill on the bottom right then spot healing to clean that up.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/y523​tM

Ill try