Darkroom Challenge Digital Darkroom Challenge #138 - Winners announced

[kae1]

Start Date

Jul 30, 2023

End Date

Aug 2, 2023

This is Digital Darkroom Derby #138, a digital image editing/processing challenge.

Please read the rules here. -> Short version: The host provides the challenge image / images and selects the winner, who then becomes the next host.

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South Stack lighthouse in Angelsey on an overcast windy day.

RAW and JPEG files are here #DDD138

Challenge closes at 12:00 BST on Wednesday 2nd August.

 

[griffljg]

This is Digital Darkroom Derby #138, a digital image editing/processing challenge.

Please read the rules here. -> Short version: The host provides the challenge image / images and selects the winner, who then becomes the next host.
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South Stack lighthouse in Angelsey on an overcast windy day.

RAW and JPEG files are here #DDD138

Challenge closes at 12:00 BST on Wednesday 2nd August.

Aah! That's a nice one. Thanks Ken.

 

[griffljg]

Entry #1:

This was interesting. - My favourite raw file convertor, Capture One Pro 23, wouldn't recognise the RW2 file. Not exactly a huge disaster, as I always intended to run it through DxO PureRAW 3 first for lens correction purposes, which I did, before importing the resulting DNG file into Capture One.

Then straightened the horizon. This rendered the horizon outside the borders of the image and so I made certain that the lighthouse was vertical (or close to vertical). Corrected the White Balance using the lighthouse as a reference point and added a bit of Saturation. Finally fiddled around with Highlight Recovery, Shadow Recovery and added in some additional Contrast.

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[Irene McC]

I seem to be unable to open this .RW2 file in my current version of Capture One Pro

 

[griffljg]

I seem to be unable to open this .RW2 file in my current version of Capture One Pro

Download a trial version of DxO PureRAW and use it to convert the RW2 file into the DNG format, which Capture One should be able to read.

 

[Irene McC]

Opened it in Photoshop, which I'm not that familiar with any longer these days

 

[doobs]

I seem to be unable to open this .RW2 file in my current version of Capture One Pro

Ditto

 

[Herbert Hound]

Entry #1. Cooled it down a bit, added contrast and some colour grading.

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[Irene McC]

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[Herbert Hound]

Entry #2. A hefty crop and some basic exposure stuff...

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[griffljg]

Entry #2:

As for Entry #1, but changed Aspect Ratio to 16:9 and cropped in from the right so that the horizon was included. A little bit of further horizon levelling too.

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[Stiga]

#1 PL6 > heavy crop > ACR & Luminar (but I think I fiddled too much!)

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[Peano]

Not competing, just freely experimenting with composition -- which, following the imaginary picture in my head, called for some re-arranging of heaven and earth. And adding a red cap.

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[Peano]

More goofing around on a lazy Sunday afternoon . . .

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[WhidbeyLVR]

Again, out of contest for now.

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[RobD]

#1. ACR & PS

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[Stiga]

#2 Remove background with Adobe Express Online. Then a lot of jjiggery pokery in PS & ACR

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[kae1]

Although it was on my birthday the weather wasn't kind as it was a bit of a miserable day with drizzle and 35 knot winds. Even though the FZ330 brightened up the image further processing would improve on the gloom. You've all improved the image in one way or another from realistic edits to letting your imagination run wild and I like them all.

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Whilst the image lacked a kitchen sink I liked the sea, the lighthouse and the cliffs so my preferences were for those that retained them. The challenge then was to sort out the colours and my top three is :-

Joint runners up - @griffljg #2 & @Irene McC - Having said that I liked the full image, I like the crop and the different takes on brightening up the day
Winner - @Herbert Hound #1 - I like the minimal crop image and whilst I prefer the colours in your #2 submission I like the way the different types of rock in the cliff face are highlighted.

Congratulations and over to you, Colin

My attempt

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[Herbert Hound]

Wow... thank you, Ken. With "one thing and another" I haven't taken any photos in July so I'm going to have to trawl through my back catalog to find something. Hmmm.... I may need some time.

 

[Herbert Hound]

OK boys 'n girls... DDC #139 is up and running. Clickety-click!