Darkroom Challenge Digital Darkroom Derby #150½

[WhidbeyLVR]

Start Date

Sep 24, 2023

End Date

Sep 27, 2023

Here is a diversion. It's the "DDD Make Your Own Fireworks Challenge".

I am putting 50 SOOC JPGs (stuck pixels and all) here. You may blend them as you like to create your perfect fireworks image.

The rules for this challenge are different as follows:

• There are no limits on number of entries.
• The winner will be decided by reaction score.
• Any reaction counts as 1 point.
• If multiple entries are in a single post, the reaction score will be evenly divided among them .
• The winner gets bragging rights. . . and owes me a beer!

Please tell us how you blended the images (e.g., in layers with blending mode "lighten only").

Here is an example (which I coincidently did with "lighten only" layers):

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This challenge will conclude at end-of-day on Wednesday, September 27th. I will post DDD #151 the following day. Have fun!!!

 

[RichardC]

Great idea Lyle.

 

[griffljg]

Looks like a fun one, Lyle. Could you please also upload the ORF raw files too?

 

[WhidbeyLVR]

Looks like a fun one, Lyle. Could you please also upload the ORF raw files too?

Unfortunately, no. Insufficient google-drive space for 50 raw files right now. Sorry.

 

[griffljg]

Unfortunately, no. Insufficient google-drive space for 50 raw files right now. Sorry.

Capture One won't merge JPEG files. I'll have to play with something else.

 

[WhidbeyLVR]

Affinity Photo should do it. Make a stack and try blending mode "Maximum" or load images into layers and blend. An example from Affinity:

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[Stiga]

Unfortunately, no. Insufficient google-drive space for 50 raw files right now. Sorry.

Well, why don't you upload them to We Transfer? It offers a free service and gives you up to 30 day storage - ideal for a 72 hour challenge. Easier still is FileTransfer.io where you don;t even have to create an account - and it is also free.

As far as I'm concerned, editing JPEGs is a waste of time if you want to get the best out of an image.

 

[Peano]

Not competing, just playing. For what it's worth, I don't think the raw files would be of much help in this case, because there are really no midtone details that the raws would help to refine. It's mainly highlights and deep shadows, with no details to recover from either.

In any case, it was fun to horse around with the jpegs. It's a useful creative exercise in color and composition. I stacked a dozen or so of the images in Photoshop and put all in Lighten blend mode, with a solid black fill layer at the bottom. Selected parts of each image, resized and re-positioned in the frame. Finally, used a couple of blank layers in color blend mode to vary the colors.

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[WhidbeyLVR]

@Stiga , @griffljg

Found some space in dropbox for raw files: DDD150.5

 

[Peano]

Still not competing, just hallucinating ...

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[Peano]

I keep seeing things in them there fireworks . . .

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[Stiga]

@Stiga , @griffljg

Found some space in dropbox for raw files: DDD150.5

Many thanks

 

[Stiga]

#1 Just one image for this one. DxO PL6 > SNS-HDR > LuminarLuminar

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[kae1]

Different challenge . Three images into Elements then use Photomerge Compose (a Guided shortcut as otherwise too much to get my head and skills around).

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[Stiga]

#2 Auto-merge 3 images in photosjo[

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[Stiga]

#2 Same workflow as #2 but made colour changes

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[WhidbeyLVR]

Final day. I hope several more folks give it a try. There isn’t really any beer involved unless you pop one open for your own consumption.

 

[Stiga]

#4 Single RAW DxO PL6 tonemap with SNS-HDR > PS/ACR

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[Stiga]

#5 Same workflow as #4

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[Stiga]

#6 Same worflow as #4

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