Darkroom Challenge Digital Darkroom Derby #219- Closed, results posted

[Zeus1]

Start Date

Aug 10, 2024

End Date

Aug 13, 2024

This is Digital Darkroom Derby #219, a digital image editing/processing challenge.

These challenges are open to everyone. If you have any interest in practicing or improving your image editing and post-processing skills, please feel free to join in!

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

While traveling through the Emilia-Romagna and Dolomites in Italy, we did a day trip to Venice, hence this image for You to embellish.

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RAW and JPGs are in my Dropbox.

The challenge will close at 1800hrs GMT on Tuesday 13th of August.

Have fun!

 

[Irene McC]

My older version of C1 doesn't read the RAW so this is a quick reworking of the jpg

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[gecko]

Not an entry.

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[griffljg]

Entry #1:

This is just a boring edit of the original image using DxO PureRAW 4 and Capture One Pro. The only extra thing that I did, from my point of view, was to mask the prow of the gondola intruding into the bottom part of the image and then "healing" out.

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[griffljg]

Entry #2:

As for Entry #1, but cropped down from the top if the image to put more emphasis onto the foreground.

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[RobD]

#1. ACR & PS

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[Peano]

Not competing, just screwin' around . . .

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[gecko]

Edited raw file in DxO PL7 then tweaked results in Elements. Edited: minor tweaks.

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[kae1]

Entry #1 DXO PL7 then Elements, PhotoAI and then got "Tow-a-Gondola" to do their stuff!

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[kae1]

Entry #2

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[doobs]

Well,

This image is very good from the get go. One of the things it highlights are the weaknesses (nonexistence) of cloning in ART. Would like to have gotten rid of the brow of the forth gondola, but C'est la vie....

So, this is nothing more than a "gussy up" A bit of tone equalizer, a bit of saturation/vibrance, a bit of tecture boost.

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Cheers

 

[Peano]

One of the things it highlights are the weaknesses (nonexistence) of cloning in ART. Would like to have gotten rid of the brow of the forth gondola, but C'est la vie....

I don't follow you. That's a two-second removal.

EDIT: Okay, now I understand. "ART" is the software you're using, and it is weak (at best) on cloning. Photoshop's "Remove Tool" works like magic in this case. But ART doesn't have that tool. So, as you said, C'est la vie.

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[gecko]

Entry #2: A black-&-white version of entry #1, obtained using "B&W strong" in DxO PL7.

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[WhidbeyLVR]

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All work done in DxO PL7 using the raw file. I did a small crop to make the gondolas a little larger. I removed some wires, partially scrubbed some stains, and removed that extra prow.

 

[doobs]

I don't follow you. That's a two-second removal.

EDIT: Okay, now I understand. "ART" is the software you're using, and it is weak (at best) on cloning. Photoshop's "Remove Tool" works like magic in this case. But ART doesn't have that tool. So, as you said, C'est la vie.

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Yep.

In my little mind, this is a fairly serious omission in terms of adopting ART fully into my PP'ing duties. I've been using these challenges as a means to work through the niggles of ART, and this particular one was the first to have something screaming to be cloned out.

Until ART, I've used Capture One (v22 ) exclusively for PP'ing. I like C1 a lot, but their commercial practices of late have me looking around for alternatives. This is a hobby for me, and as a retiree, I have nowhere near the amount of "disposable income" to throw around at stuff like keeping C1 up to date.

Appreciate the feedback.

I imported to GIMP and then cloned out the prow and wire:

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cheers

 

[doobs]

OK, this is odd.

The two images I've attached are identical on my monitors when viewed in GIMP.

They are different when displayed here:

The one on the left is a jpg from GIMP (from a tif exported from ART), the right a jpg from ART.
Not a huge difference, but decidedly different. Any idea why that would be?

Thanks

 

[WhidbeyLVR]

OK, this is odd.

The two images I've attached are identical on my monitors when viewed in GIMP.

They are different when displayed here:

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The one on the left is a jpg from GIMP (from a tif exported from ART), the right a jpg from ART.
Not a huge difference, but decidedly different. Any idea why that would be?

Thanks

I am not an expert on color profiles in Gimp, but I have seen cases where images look different in Gimp compared to my browser or other editors and I suspect the color profile handling to be the source. I would offer a solution if I had one, but… no.

 

[Zeus1]

Now closed, voting when I find the time (meaning, when the pup sleeps).

 

[MiguelATF]

Not official entries since I missed the deadline earlier today, but here are my two best efforts 'noodling' around.
First, using bits and pieces of Silver Efex and LR6, for a slightly exaggerated, contrasty and warmish monochrome version--

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And the other inspired by some of Eric Kim's old interpretations of a Lomography look, with quite a bit of vignetting and a greenish tint--

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[Zeus1]

Special artistic awards go to @Peano and @MiguelATF , both very nice entries!
Winner: @gecko first entry
First runner up: @kae1 first entry
Second runner up: @griffljg second entry
Difficult for me to choose from these entries, not many variations.