Darkroom Challenge Digital Darkroom Derby #226 - Results posted.

[gecko]

Start Date

Sep 8, 2024

End Date

Sep 11, 2024

This is Digital Darkroom Derby #226, 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.

A small church in the mountains of Lebanon, from a 35-mm slide taken in about 1974 using a Pentax Spotmatic with 50mm,f/1.4 lens, digitized using a digital camera with a slide duplicator.

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JPEG file: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g7i9...ey=ha9v4ydxu0i5qb51m2l38y9f8&st=h8sgm1s1&dl=0
RAW file: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/p8hw...ey=07mqugg5kl3e8jzd9eltlknhr&st=wyd1nak7&dl=0

The Challenge will close on Wednesday, September 11, 2024 at 6 PM EDT (22 h GMT).

 

[Rob R]

This was challenging for a few different reasons. My main helpers were Topaz Denoise, Photorestoration neural filter to get rid of dust, object remove tool for leftover dust and telephone pole.

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[Zeus1]

Antique rendition

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[Irene McC]

I purposedly left the dust bunnies in the sky - texture and to show its age

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[RobD]

#1. ACR & PS

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[Irene McC]

Colour entry

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[griffljg]

This was a great challenge (to me at least). I am sad to report that, in this case, my photo editing skills have proved to be wanting. Everything that I did to try to address the dust problem seemed to aggravate it. So I finally removed the worst of the dust and left it at that.

Everything done using Capture One Pro.

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[kae1]

Entry #1 Nice challenge as I struggled to know what to do with it Tried to keep the "70's slide feel" and cleaned up a bit with DXO PL7 then Elements, DeNoise and PhotoAI.

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[kae1]

Entry 2 - Liked the slide copier as a "vignette"

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[gecko]

Many thanks to everyone for the beautiful work. The Challenge will be open for about another day, and I hope there will be more entries.

 

[gecko]

The Challenge is now closed. Many thanks to all who contributed their beautiful edits. Having gone over them several times I know that judging is going to be almost an impossible task. I'll try to post the results some time tomorrow. Thank you all again.

 

[gecko]

Thanks to everyone for entering the Challenge. All entries were significantly better than my own attempt: removing the dust spots while retaining the image presented a serious difficulty for me as well as a challenge for everyone, I'm sure. Most dealt with the problem very nicely, although a couple nicked the top of the cross on the bell tower slightly. I liked Ken's (@kae1's) idea of including the slide copier as a vignette. I had a problem narrowing down my preferences, but having gone over the images many times, I didn't think more mulling would help: it likely would have resulted in different selections, but I had to stop some time.

So, the winner is Irene's (@Irene McC's) color entry. I particularly liked the sharpness, the light levels, the excellent dust removal, the appearance of the city in the background, and the fact that she removed the telephone pole.
First runner up is Larry (@griffljg). Nice processing and good sharpness and dust removal.
Second runners up are Hendrik (@Zeus1) and Rob R (@Rob R).

Over to you, Irene.

 

[Irene McC]

Ohhhhh that's kind of you, thank you very much for selecting my (color) version.
I appreciate it and will think of what to use for the next challenge.

 

[Irene McC]

New challenge is up and running

Darkroom Challenge - Digital Darkroom Derby #227

This is Digital Darkroom Derby #226, 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...

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