Challenge! Digital Darkroom Derby #100 - Closed, winner announced

[kae1]

Start Date

Feb 20, 2023

End Date

Feb 23, 2023

This is Digital Darkroom Derby #100, a digital image editing/processing challenge.

Please read the rules here. Short version: Host provides the challenge image and selects the winner, who then becomes the next host.

To celebrate the hundredth Derby here is a picture of Haworth Engine Sheds/Workshop with a steam engine built in 1899 and a diesel engine from 1962.

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RAW and JPEG files are here #100

Derby closes on Thursday 23rd February at 08:00 UTC.

 

[Herbert Hound]

Entry #1. A 1:1 crop and used a colour range mask to select the front of the diesel loco because I wanted to leave the snow bright white and global highlights would've affected that. Cloned out a few annoyances and added a preset. Over to PS for a nice big border.

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[griffljg]

Entry #1:

Imported into Capture One Pro. Then performed a perspective correction, wound back exposure, pushed up the contrast, before finally doing some highlight and shadow recovery.

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[griffljg]

Entry #2:

As for Entry #1, but a more severe crop.

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[Herbert Hound]

Entry #2. Vintaged.

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[Stiga]

This is Digital Darkroom Derby #100, a digital image editing/processing challenge.

Please read the rules here. Short version: Host provides the challenge image and selects the winner, who then becomes the next host.

To celebrate the hundredth Derby here is a picture of Haworth Engine Sheds/Workshop with a steam engine built in 1899 and a diesel engine from 1962.



RAW and JPEG files are here #100

Derby closes on Thursday 23rd February at 08:00 UTC.

Yippee. you have scored a cuntury!

 

[Irene McC]

Yippee. you have scored a cuntury!

Oops

 

[Stiga]

#1 Using free software only
1. SNS-HDR Lite + GUI
2. Luminar AI (Free offer now expired)

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[Zeus1]

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[BosseBe]

Looked like toy trains to me...
Entry #1:

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[BosseBe]

Entry #2:

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[Dinobe]

That yellow train, is that such a train with a deltic engine?

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[kae1]

That yellow train, is that such a train with a deltic engine?

I think so. There is more info on this specific train here 37075 BR Type 3, Class 37 CO - CO Diesel Electric - Keighley & Worth Valley Railway

 

[kae1]

Still plenty of time before the trains leave tomorrow

 

[kae1]

Only a small but nevertheless high quality number of submissions this time of another image from a test session with yet another camera . At some point I'll probably firm up on camera(s) choice, but for now I'm happy to shoot anything which tests out the camera's capability and catches my eye.

I saw the image as a nice opportunity to see how the camera responded with extremes of shade and bright sunlight. So my criteria for the challenge was to see what can be made of the shaded half, the bright sunlight, and the washed out yellow on the diesel, as well as being creative with pruning, cropping and feel. You've all submitted a great range of interpretations making my decision harder.

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My winner is @Dinobe - I feel you've achieved my top three criteria and I like the slightly wider crop
First runner up - @Zeus - like the colours and clarity and your selective pruning of the branches
Second runner up - @BosseBe #2 - Like both entries with the toy train look and have a slight preference to the B&W

Congratulations @Dinobe and over to you for the next challenge

My interpretation :-

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[Dinobe]

Thanks a lot, I feel honored!
I'll try to get a photo up asap, but it will most probably be tomorrow afternoon (CET)

D101 is open