Darkroom Challenge Digital Darkroom Derby #59 - Closed - Results Announced

[Hendrik]

This is Digital Darkroom Derby #59, 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.

Let's stay with a sweeping seaside vista

I've been slowly going through family slides by a number of means - dedicated slide scanner, flatbed scanner and some direct copying using various cameras. I was experimenting with using the D600 (white balance calibrated to the LED light source) on this occasion. This is a scene of a beach on Long Island Sound taken in the 80s, likely using an Olympus OM 1 or 2 on what looks to be Ektachrome.

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The NEF file may be found here
A Lightroom-generated JPEG may be found here

The challenge will close at 10:00 am (EDT, GMT -4) on Saturday, August 20. Contestants, man your sliders...Go!

 

[Irene McC]

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[Zeus1]

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[gecko]

Pretty challenging! I wanted to see what I could do keeping it in color but could not get a reasonable result even after much fiddling. Edited raw file in DxO PL5, then tweaked in Elements.

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[Herbert Hound]

Entry #1. This was very challenging! The sliders in LR had little effect and my profiles and presets just bounced off it so I kept to the film era vibe and went for a bleach bypass effect...

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[Herbert Hound]

Entry #2. Lots of local masking and colour shifting for this one... followed by a vignette in the style of some old photo frames I vaguely remember from my grandma's house about 50 years ago that she must've had for a further 50 years or so...

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[WhidbeyLVR]

I lit the candles, rang the bell thrice and commanded with a great shout, "Come Out!" But alas, I found no way to exorcise all the demons from this scan.

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[Irene McC]

I lit the candles, rang the bell thrice and commanded with a great shout, "Come Out!" But alas, I found no way to exorcise all the demons in this scan.

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Excellent @WhidbeyLVR - I have to say 'how the heck did you coax out those colours' ?

 

[Hendrik]

I lit the candles, rang the bell thrice and commanded with a great shout, "Come Out!" But alas, I found no way to exorcise all the demons in this scan.

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Grin...

 

[WhidbeyLVR]

Excellent @WhidbeyLVR - I have to say 'how the heck did you coax out those colours' ?

I played with white balance and color channel curves just trying to counter the color casts at various exposure levels, then I took what I found and cranked it up to "11". To be perfectly honest, some of it is a bit imaginary or just wishful thinking.

 

[Irene McC]

I played with white balance and color channel curves just trying to counter the color casts at various exposure levels, then I took what I found and cranked it up to "11". To be perfectly honest, some of it is a bit imaginary or just wishful thinking.

In LightRoom? I'm a Capture One user these days - things work a bit differently. I am much impressed!
Try as I might, I got nothing approaching colours that pleased me, so I chickened out with a monochrome version (above)

 

[WhidbeyLVR]

In LightRoom? I'm a Capture One user these days - things work a bit differently. I am much impressed!
Try as I might, I got nothing approaching colours that pleased me, so I chickened out with a monochrome version (above)

I use DxO PhotoLab 5 for RAW conversion and Gimp with Nik and G'mic plugins for image editing. DxO's Deep Prime noise reduction is excellent for my m43 gear -- I no longer suffer from ISO insecurity. And Gimp is powerful and free.

 

[BosseBe]

DxO PL5, no preset as there is no lens info, played around with a lot of different settings and this is what I came up with, left the crud in as this is a vintage picture.
Entry #1

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[BosseBe]

And a B&W from the above.
Entry #2

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[RobD]

#1. Played around with ACR & Photoshop - very tricky challenge!

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[Zeus1]

Entry #2.

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[betamax]

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[Piano]

I manned the sliders - as instructed!

Established white and black points, levels, spotted out most of the dust, cloned out the aerials, cropped. TK8 action panel to get some colour in and bring down the sky. De-noise, add a dust layer back, sharpen.

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[Stiga]

Version #1 - a half-way-house B&W - denoise, crop and dust removal in PS

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[Stiga]

Version #2 > upload #1 to www.onlinecolorization.com for AI colorization > back ionto PS for canvas extension, resize, sharpen and tidy-up

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