Darkroom Challenge Digital Darkroom Derby #210 - Winner announced

[kae1]

Start Date

Jun 30, 2024

End Date

Jul 3, 2024

Welcome to the Digital Darkroom Derby #210, a digital image editing/processing challenge. The rules are here. Please read them.

Let's see what you can do with another 0.1% from my day out watching some classic bike racing.

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Challenge ends on Wednesday 3rd July at 08:00 UTC.
The raw and jpeg can be found here.

 

[griffljg]

Entry #1:

I have called this "Entry #1" as, if I can find the time to fiddle around with this further before the challenge closes, then I may submit a second entry.

I followed my usual procedure as follows:

PEF file -> DxO PureRAW 4 (Mainly for Lens Correction) -> DNG file -> Capture One Pro ("Healing" out fence post and top strand of fence, cropping out the trees, panoramic aspect ratio, fiddled around with Contrast, Brightness, HDR settings and Clarity) -> JPEG file.

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[RobD]

#1. ACR & PS

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[doobs]

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Trying out some of the "features" in ART.

1. A bit of a crop
2. Some added Saturation/Vibrance
3. Some added Texture Boost
4. Selected Film-like tone curve
5. Added some Tone Equalizer adjustments
6. Added some Log Encoding adjustments

I've got a sequence of processing I normally use in Capture One that I guess one could call a "style". I'm sort of looking for the same thing with ART. Most of the nomenclature is completely different and although the feature set has been reduced from Raw Therapee by Alberto, there are still a lot tools in the quiver.

Cheers

 

[Peano]

As usual, not competing. I like this tranquil farm scene. Removed the foreground fence and added some human activity in the hay field. I like the shaded foliage in the foreground framing the barn. ACR and PS.

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[WhidbeyLVR]

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I used the raw file with DxO PL7, then some tweaks in Gimp/Nik. I did some (hopefully subtle) shenanigans with perspective/geometry to make the lines of the fields run the way I wanted. I cloned out the wire fence. I cropped to the foliage frame and warmed up the palette.

 

[gecko]

Edited raw file in DxO PL7 then tweaked in Elements (as usual).

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[gecko]

Entry #2: converted entry #1 to B&W using Nik Silver Efex then tweaked contrast in Elements.

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[WhidbeyLVR]

B&W version

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[kae1]

Still got time to show what you can do!

 

[kae1]

I wondered what you'd make of this "impulse" shot (taken whilst walking from one corner to another) and again you've all not let me down. What caught my eye was, not only the barn, but the framing of the trees/bushes as well as the different angles and textures of the fields. It was only on editing the image that the fence became a distraction for me, so either a crop or a removal was IMO necessary as was a view on how green the fields should be? You've submitted a nice range of images addressing my observations.

Whilst B&W still works, in my eye at least, the colour entries won the day so my preferences are :-
Winner - @WhidbeyLVR #1 - nice crop, retaining the frame, nice range of colours in the fields and removal of the fence
Runner up - @griffljg - not what I'd envisaged but a nice crop and colours to create a nice image
Second runner up - @gecko #1 - like the more muted colours, the frame and lack of fence

Congratulations, Lyle and over to you for the next challenge.

For completeness my attempt

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[WhidbeyLVR]

Congratulations, Lyle and over to you for the next challenge.

Thanks, Ken! It was fun, as usual. DDD #211 is now live:

Darkroom Challenge - Digital Darkroom Derby #211

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