Challenge! Digital Darkroom Derby #57 : Winner announced!

[Irene McC]

Start Date

Aug 1, 2022

End Date

Aug 8, 2022

Start Date: 01 August 2022
End Date: 08 August 2022

This is Digital Darkroom Derby #57, a digital image editing/processing challenge.

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

This is the NG Kerk at Piketberg, Western Cape, South Africa (inaugurated in 1836) - my picture was taken on a trip in 2016

The links to the jpg and NEF raw file can be found here:

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[Herbert Hound]

Entry #1. I've gone for the old film look with the curves and colour grading in LR, and removed various distractions in PS...

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[MoonMind]

Folks, could you please - only for my sake - continue to change the title once the challenge is finished? It'd make keeping track of things way easier ...

M.

 

[Piano]

Set White and black points, straightened, rotated and cropped. Slightly lightened some darker parts of the background hills and sharpened.

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[Irene McC]

Folks, could you please - only for my sake - continue to change the title once the challenge is finished? It'd make keeping track of things way easier ...

M.

Sorry? Do you mean I ought to have changed the title of the thread? You are welcome to make the change now if that helps

 

[kae1]

Sorry? Do you mean I ought to have changed the title of the thread? You are welcome to make the change now if that helps

Don't panic Irene. I think Matt is referring to the two previous challenges where the title of the thread didn't add "Winner Announced" or "Closed". I think yours is fine

 

[Herbert Hound]

Entry #2. I thought the building looked too skinny... so I fattened it up and tried to give it the "Tourist Brochure" treatment of clarity, blue skys etc. Cloned out a load of stuff... including the drainpipe. You've gotta love content-aware fill in Photoshop!

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[MoonMind]

Sorry? Do you mean I ought to have changed the title of the thread? You are welcome to make the change now if that helps

Ken said it: For now, everything's fine. But once the challenge is done, I'd be very grateful if you made it visible without me having to follow these threads. Just amend the title in the first post ...

M.

 

[RobD]

#1. ACR & Photoshop

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[Zeus1]

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[Piano]

Ken said it: For now, everything's fine. But once the challenge is done, I'd be very grateful if you made it visible without me having to follow these threads. Just amend the title in the first post ...

M.

Sorry - just realised I didn't do it for #56 and have amended.

 

[RichardC]

Entry 1

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Opened in Photolab 4, applied lens corrections and Deep Prime NR, exported to Lightroom.

In Lightroom, used a Presetpro Kodak LUT, set white and black points, highlights/shadows. Desaturated the greens. Used calibration to shift the reds to make the bricks 'redder'. Selected the sly and desaturated and darkened it a little. Used the transform tool in guided mode to straighten the church. Added a vignette.

In Photoshop, used the free transform tool to squash the image (straightening in Lightroom often results in buildings that look ridiculously tall), then used Greg Benz's sharpener pro to make a mat without any sharpening.

Edit. Did some gardening.

 

[RichardC]

Entry 2

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Went back through my Photoshop history and removed the mat. Opened in On1 and used a b/w LUT, added some grain and a faux film border. Back in Photoshop, used a curves adjustment layer to remove some contrast.

 

[Piano]

Mono version

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[WhidbeyLVR]

Entry 1

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Processed raw file in DxO PL5. Partially adjusted the perspective and cropped a bit. Made moderate changes to color, exposure, and local contrast. No trip to Gimp/Nik this time.

 

[WhidbeyLVR]

Entry 2 B&W (Nik Silver Efex)

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[betamax]

basic processing in Capture 1.

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[betamax]

B/w conversion in Exposure X6.

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[Stiga]

Entry #1 - PL5 > Aurora > ShiftN (correct perspective) > tidy up in PS

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[Stiga]

Entry #2 - PL5 > PS/ACR (DxO Viewpoint to correct perspective distortion)

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