Darkroom Challenge Digital Darkroom Challenge #139 - closed, awaiting results.

[Herbert Hound]

Start Date

Aug 3, 2023

End Date

Aug 6, 2023

This is Digital Darkroom Challenge #139, 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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I think that his piccie has far too much green in it... I'll let you decide what to do with it.

DNG and JPEG files are here.

Challenge closes at 18:00 BST on Sunday 6th August.

 

[griffljg]

This is Digital Darkroom Challenge #139, 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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This piccie was taken at the RAF Museum in Cosford and is of a Gloster Meteor which has been modified as a "prone pilot" test bed. You can see the concept in the display info board.

It's a metallic plane in front of a metallic grey background with metallic objects cluttering it up, and harsh lighting from the windows above plus the hangar lighting.

DNG and JPEG files are here

Challenge closes at 18:00 BST on Sunday 6th August.

Colin, could you please post the original raw (ORF) file? I am not able to read the DNG file in either Capture One Pro or DxO PureRAW.

 

[Stiga]

Colin, could you please post the original raw (ORF) file? I am not able to read the DNG file in either Capture One Pro or DxO PureRAW.

Agreed, A straight-out-of-camera RAW would be better.. I can open the DNG file in Photoshp but DxO PL6 does not like it and issues this error. I have had this problem with Lightroom DNGs.

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[Herbert Hound]

Ooops.... sorry guys. I don't have a RAW file for this so I'll replace it with another challenge soon.

 

[Herbert Hound]

Okee-dokee... I've replaced the original pic with a new one.

 

[Zeus1]

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[Peano]

I think that his piccie has far too much green in it... I'll let you decide what to do with it.

Not competing, just experimenting with the Scatter and Color Jitter brush settings in Photoshop (CS6) to create a fallish effect. I'm not thrilled with the results, but I've found that if I just forge ahead and make a mess, I can learn something from it.

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[griffljg]

Entry #1:

Fed the ORF file through DxO PureRAW 3, before importing the file into Capture One Pro 23 for further processing.

In Capture One, warmed up the white balance a bit to make the colours a bit more realistic, added some contrast, fiddled around with Exposure, Highlight recovery, Shadow recovery and wound back the default Sharpness by about 70%. Cropped the image to 16:9 aspect ratio.

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[griffljg]

Entry #2:

As for Entry #1, but a more severe crop to the default 4:3 aspect ratio.

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[RobD]

#1. ACR & PS

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[Stiga]

#1 DxO PL6 > SNS-HDR > some minor tweaks in PS

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[WhidbeyLVR]

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[Stiga]

#2 Apply Infrared effect using a free Photoshop Action from PSDstack

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A non-entry This is the red version of the action

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[kae1]

Entry #1 DXO PL5 then Elements

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[kae1]

Entry #2

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[Herbert Hound]

Okee-dokee, boys 'n girls. This challenge is now closed while I decide on a winner... but first I'll need my porridge and coffee!

 

[Herbert Hound]

Right! Porridge eaten, coffee drunk, dog walked, more coffee brewin', Bach's violin sonatas playin'.... time to decide.

It isn't a good picture. The point of interest is the bridge... but the bridge isn't very interesting! A proper photographer would've waited for a canal boat to chug into view but that's not me. So I think cropping in too much took the canal out of it without adding anything in return... which is where a boat would've come in handy.

I loved David's (@Peano) Autumn colours and it's a shame you're not competing. However; I think the grass needed Autumnifying too. (Is that a word?)

I said there was too much green but I'm not sure B&W suited the piccie.... and I'm pretty sure red didn't!!

If I could've combined features of quite a few of the piccies then that would've been perfect, but I'm going to choose the winner of this challenge as @RobD because he incorporated more of the points. A good crop, light and airy colours, brought out the reflection of the bridge and the only challenger to clone out the post (while leaving in the bridge ID plate).

Over to you, Rob.

 

[RobD]

Thanks for the win Colin, I will search for a new challenge image soon.

 

[RobD]

Next challenge is up and running - Darkroom Challenge - Digital Darkroom Derby #140