Darkroom Challenge Digital Darkroom Derby #77 - Closed - Winner Announced!

[betamax]

This is Digital Darkroom Derby #77, 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.

These images are going back a decade or so from my o/s trip, so hopefully I haven't used them before! Challenge ends around 6pm local time Sunday (6am Sunday UTC).

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Raw and Jpeg's are here: ddd77

Hopefully I've set all the tags right this time!

Alan.

 

[griffljg]

Entry #1: Edited with Capture One Pro.

Cropped to 2:3. Increased a bit of Clarity and did a bit of Dehazing. Then a bit of highlight and shadow recovery to pick up some detail.

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[Herbert Hound]

Entry #1. A crop followed by a "Classic Chrome" preset. Masked the grass and muted it, masked the brickwork and upped the clarity and saturation. Intersected a sky mask with a gradient mask to bring out some structure in the sky without affecting the tree or mountains. All in LR except the border in PS.

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[RobD]

#1. ACR & PS.

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[Herbert Hound]

Entry #2. I thought I'd go full-on retro with this as it's an old place. I cut out the two tourists and a few other distractions.

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[BosseBe]

DxO PL6, the usual sauce and then got rid of the 3 persons in the picture.
Entry #1:

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[BosseBe]

From the above, Ilford Pan F Plus 50 rendering and a red filter.
Entry #2:

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[kae1]

Entry #1 DXO PL5 then Elements and DeNoise

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[kae1]

Entry #2

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[Irene McC]

A B&W attempt

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[Irene McC]

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[gecko]

Entry #1. I am out of practice as I've not been working with photos for a while, so this very beautiful shot provided me with a good practice image. I used the two raw files, edited them first in DxO PL5 (basic light levels & set white balance to "cloudy") then used Elements to merge them and further tweak the edits.

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[gecko]

Entry #2. I used entry #1, cropped it, then enlarged the crop to 1600-pixel width using Topaz Gigapixel.

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[Zeus1]

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[griffljg]

Entry #2: Edited with Capture One Pro.

Performed a Panorama Stitch on the two raw files and then cropped to 16:9. Increased a bit of Clarity and did a bit of Dehazing. Then a bit of highlight and shadow recovery to pick up some detail.

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[Stiga]

#1 PL6 > Luminar

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[pvlstf]

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[betamax]

Welcome to these friendly forums @pvlstf! It's always good to see a new entrant in these challenges!

Around a day and a half to go folks! There's still time to make it even harder on me

 

[gecko]

Welcome @pvlstf !

 

[betamax]

In hindsight, this wasn’t a very good image to choose for a challenge, as you’ve all done a great job PPing it, and so it was quiet difficult to pick a winner. There were 3 general ways these were cropped - the pano, the standard one with the tree, or the tight crop down the middle. I my mind this should have been a pano. But you've made me change my mind on this one. Anyway, without further ado as they say, and I did keep changing my top 10 even!

#3 Colin - I like the retro/sepia look. Suits the subject well.
#2 Hendrik! Lovely super wide - it’s what I had in mind, and

#1 Irene’s tigher crop image, with a sepia look as well. The tight crop gives it a little more mystique.

Thank you to everyone that participated!

So, over to you @Irene McC