Before and After - The Weekly Editing Challenge

Hello....Hello.....Hel​lo, It's been a week, as a noob to the thread I am not sure how this works, is it time for the runner up to step up and claim the win?

Yes it is. Mannetti you're up.

Oopsss...sorry and thanks. I will get something up in a few hours.

I have about 20 shots from this series/shoot I did about 4 weeks ago. This is one of the most balanced exposure/histograms from the shoot. Have at it.

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)

Lovely image. Worth the wait.

Benitoite wrote in post #18244413
Lovely image. Worth the wait.

yeah, hate to mess it up!!

You people and your "L"uxury gear.
Go back to the SOOC thread already. Sheesh.

LOL Just Kidding!

Note: don't consider this an entry. I have no ability to deal with a win at the moment, just wanted to play.

First try:

Just playing around with various sliders in LR

In acr.
top and bottom a graduated filter. and make it even warmer.
In CS added contrast.
lighted the rocks in front, and the water.
Added the sun.
finnaly dodge and burn.

Wow Moses. That's really good.

In ACR, reduced clarity, increased vibrance, adjusted temp to the extreme, adjusted shadows and blacks to the extreme, adjusted contrast, cropped.
In PS added curves layer set to screen mode to make some light rays then adjusted opacity played around with masking and blend modes.
Added another curves layer and did the same. Added a hue/saturation and reduced the blues a bit and played with blend modes and opacity.

Boosted clarity, vibrance, shadows, grad filter on the sky for color temp and darkening.

Open in PS and selected all the water without the rocks (that took a while) and applied motion blur in 3 directions. Applied a mask to clean-up some areas. Curves layer on the foreground to take out some red in the shadows and midtones on the rocks. Added the sun and a lens flare. 16x9 crop and added a black border with a white keyline. Copied the logo from Ryan's website, pasted it in the border and resized.