Challenge! Digital Darkroom Derby #93 - Finished and winners declared.

[kae1]

Start Date

Jan 22, 2023

End Date

Jan 25, 2023

This is Digital Darkroom Derby #93, 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.

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Let's see what you can make of some old weaving equipment at Bradford Industrial Museum.

RAW and JPEG files are #DDD93

Challenge closes on Wednesday 25th January at 9:00 am (UTC).

 

[Rose McGill]

Looks like an absolutely amazing place!

 

[griffljg]

Entry #1:

Just rudimentary fixes. - First ran through DxO PureRAW, before importing the resulting DNG file into Capture One Pro 23. Some keystone correction and straightening, a bit of increased saturation, maxed out the highlight recovery and added a bit of shadow recovery.

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[Herbert Hound]

I thought it was a spaghetti factory!!

Entry #1. Cropped to get rid of the hand rail and ladder, de-saturated and upped the clarity and contrast to get a mechanical look. Colour graded the shadows...

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[Zeus1]

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[RobD]

#1. ACR, PS & Topaz denoise

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[betamax]

C1 basic edits to highlights and shadows then into Denoise AI.

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[betamax]

calotype filter in Exposure X6.

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[Stiga]

#1 PL6 > PS?ACR remove ladder, adjust exposure, gradient filter, Viewpoint, doge and burn,, sharpen with Topaz. Sorry but PS did not allow be to add the sound!

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[griffljg]

Entry #2:

Imported into Capture One Pro 23. Wound back exposure a bit, maxed out highlight recovery, did a lot of shadow recovery and added in a bit of saturation, before feeding it through Topaz Photo AI, which performed some noise reduction.

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[RichardC]

Entry 1

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[BosseBe]

Entry #1:

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[BosseBe]

Entry #2:

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[kae1]

Still got plenty of time to have a go.

 

[gecko]

Apologies: not an entry, but I wanted to join irresponsibly in the fun. I edited the raw file in DxO PL5 then tweaked in Elements. I tried to get what I imagined would be the lighting and colors in a factory in use.

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[RichardC]

Enrty 2 - all done in ON1 2023. Image processing, crop, texture, glow, emulsion type border.

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[kae1]

Having had a meltdown and traded in a lot of my heavier* (*only to me) m4/3 gear I decided to upgrade my GX80 to a GX9 to see how I got on and this was its first proper outing. Apart from battery life (which I need to get to the bottom of) I like the handling as it is an updated GX80 with a few new bells and whistles.
Apart from the windows, the light in the mill was poor and the machinery is mainly black so hopefully a bit of a challenge to get the highlight and shadow recovery right. I liked the wool thread and the 19th century stated of the art data storage solution too. I found something to like in all your submissions so I've found this harder than normal to judge.

My top three are :-
2nd runner up - @Zeus1 - I love B&W at the best of times so I loved all the B&W submissions, but I preferred the nice contrast on your submission
Joints runners up - @Herbert Hound and @RichardC #2 - Unusually for me I liked them equally for their "un-natural" colours.
Winner - @griffljg #1 - I like the colours, the contrast and the clarity

Congratulations, Larry and over to you

 

[Dinobe]

I know the challenge is already closed, I just wanted to add mine to see

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[griffljg]

Having had a meltdown and traded in a lot of my heavier* (*only to me) m4/3 gear I decided to upgrade my GX80 to a GX9 to see how I got on and this was its first proper outing. Apart from battery life (which I need to get to the bottom of) I like the handling as it is an updated GX80 with a few new bells and whistles.
Apart from the windows, the light in the mill was poor and the machinery is mainly black so hopefully a bit of a challenge to get the highlight and shadow recovery right. I liked the wool thread and the 19th century stated of the art data storage solution too. I found something to like in all your submissions so I've found this harder than normal to judge.View attachment 360543

My top three are :-
2nd runner up - @Zeus1 - I love B&W at the best of times so I loved all the B&W submissions, but I preferred the nice contrast on your submission
Joints runners up - @Herbert Hound and @RichardC #2 - Unusually for me I liked them equally for their "un-natural" colours.
Winner - @griffljg #1 - I like the colours, the contrast and the clarity

Congratulations, Larry and over to you

Thanks Ken (@kae1). I wasn't expecting that. I'll have a look through my archives for any which might be worthy of a challenge. Failing that, I'll go out and take some more. I'll post a new challenge later today.

 

[griffljg]

Digital Darkroom Derby #94 is now open.