Darkroom Challenge Digital Darkroom Derby #140 - Results posted

RobD

RobD

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Location
Leura - Blue Mountains Australia
Name
Robert Davidson
Start Date
Aug 7, 2023
End Date
Aug 10, 2023
Welcome to the Digital Darkroom Derby #140, a digital image editing/processing challenge. The rules are here. Please read them.

Challenge ends on Thursday 10th August at 8pm AEST. Not sure what can be done with this image?
The raw and jpeg can be found here: PhotoChallenge

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Entry #1 (and probably only):

Well caught @RobD . (y)

With an ISO of 12800, noise reduction was always going to be required. So first a quick run through DxO PureRAW 3 for noise reduction and lens correction, before importing the resulting DNG file into Capture One Pro 23.

Cropped to a 16:9 aspect ratio to get rid of the bar / fence at the bottom and the dead space on the right. Then fiddled around a bit with Contrast, Highlight recovery, Shadow recovery and added in a bit of Brightness.

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Edit: I am out of the challenge. See below.

Did anyone else notice the fly hitching a ride on the kookaburra's back? (Or is it a mozzie?)

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I separated the bird and the background, then rebuilt the background to fill in the bird-shaped hole. Then I added both depth-of-field blur and motion blur to the background. I composited the bird back into the image in a new location. Finally, I cropped the image to XPAN aspect ratio (65:24), because, why not? Oh, yeah. . . there was a vignette and shadow somewhere in there, too.

EDIT: Sorry, @RobD . We are getting together with family for 10 days, starting tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon. I found out today that fairly extensive touring plans have been made for most of that time, which will preclude my participation in the challenges during this period. So I am pulling this entry from the challenge and I will join in again the week after next.
 
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WhidbeyLVR said:
Edit: I am out of the challenge. See below.

Did anyone else notice the fly hitching a ride on the kookaburra's back? (Or is it a mozzie?)

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EDIT: Sorry, @RobD . We are getting together with family for 10 days, starting tomorrow, Wednesday afternoon. I found out today that fairly extensive touring plans have been made for most of that time, which will preclude my participation in the challenges during this period. So I am pulling this entry from the challenge and I will join in again the week after next.
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Lyle, have a nice time with Family. Your entry gave me some tips to improve my version of this shot!
 
RobD said:
Here are the results, not many entries.
Rashid #2 - The winner
Larry #2 - Runner up
Ken #1 - 2nd Runner up

Take it away Rashid.
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Thank you, Rob. A fantastic shot: I've tried many times to get a photo of a bird in flight and the best I could get was the rear half of the bird within the frame (I also tried a Dot Sight device which only made it more difficult for me :) I didn't expect this, so I've not tried to have a photo ready for the Challenge. I'll try to post something later today or tomorrow. Thanks again.
 

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