Let’s play #20

[Ben Egbert]

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This week’s image is one from Jameel.

Here is a link to the image.

https://www.focalworld.com/index.php?resources/lets-play-20.36/

The embedded image is a small jpg of the raw, but use the download dng files for rework.

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

Here is my try. I went BW because any adjustment at all to the color version turned the clouds a weird green/pink, as you can see in the below image. Maybe my lightroom is not working ;( correctly.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Good choice on B&W, the DR here is challenging.

 

[AlanLichty]

I hit the same problem with the skies as Darcy and finally did some selective cloning, used a desaturated brush tool, and cropped to alleviate the top center blowout.

Not totally happy with the edit here but its what I ended up with......

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

I hit the same problem with the skies as Darcy and finally did some selective cloning, using a desaturated brush tool, and cropping to alleviate the top center blowout.

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Not totally happy with the edit here but its what I ended up with......

Well at least I know it is not my lightroom. Looks good Alan

 

[JimFox]

This is going to be a fun one to work with. It will be a challenge for me as I know my tendency with foggy images is to turn up the contrast when processing but that ruins the

Here is my try. I went BW because any adjustment at all to the color version turned the clouds a weird green/pink, as you can see in the below image. Maybe my lightroom is not working ;( correctly.

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I like your B&W Darcy.

How interesting about the green/pink coloring. I think if you look carefully in the raw it seems to have that as an underlying color. It does make one wonder where that coloring came from.

 

[JimFox]

I hit the same problem with the skies as Darcy and finally did some selective cloning, using a desaturated brush tool, and cropping to alleviate the top center blowout.

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Not totally happy with the edit here but its what I ended up with......

Hey Alan, this is a very good edit. I like how you dealt with that coloring. Jameel definitely submitted a very cool image with a few challenges in it.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Here is my take on it. I started with a light and dark conversion then blended. The color cast was visible in ACR so I played with color temp and hsl values. Then after blending, I worked on the color some more. After I was finished, I desaturated the entire sky to get rid of the cast. Whew, never saw one this hard to work with. I wonder if this was filter induced?

 

[JimFox]

Here is my take on it. I started with a light and dark conversion then blended. The color cast was visible in ACR so I played with color temp and hsl values. Then after blending, I worked on the color some more. After I was finished, I desaturated the entire sky to get rid of the cast. Whew, never saw one this hard to work with. I wonder if this was filter induced?

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Excellent work Ben! I like what you did and it was worth the effort. I had figured to attack that color casting in the same method that you did.

And I like that you have retained that foggy feel in this, that's not always easy.

 

[JimFox]

I did 2 versions, a color that I processed similar to Ben's and a B&W. One thing I did was to work on emphasizing that fog. So in the raw conversion I did a -100 Clarity. In the color I desaturated the sky to remove the color cast. In the B&W I added increased contrast in the foreground, and then backed off on the contrast in the background to add more of a misty feel.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Neat Jim, I never thought of using negative clarity to get a foggy feel.

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

Loving that misty look Jim, good thinking on that one! Great edit Ben, you put a lot of work into it!

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Lot of very interesting interpretations. Like them all for different reasons. I'll hold off mine for a bit longer.

To answer Ben's question, didn't use any filter other than a clear/UV one. The image is from a Canon 10D and that is a circa 2004 sensor. Lets just say it had its limitations relative to modern day sensors.

 

[AlanLichty]

Lot of very interesting interpretations. Like them all for different reasons. I'll hold off mine for a bit longer.

To answer Ben's question, didn't use any filter other than a clear/UV one. The image is from a Canon 10D and that is a circa 2004 sensor. Lets just say it had its limitations relative to modern day sensors.

That explains a lot about the blown out area in the clouds. I had a Canon D60 and followed that with the 20D - images from both bodies will sometimes show similar symptoms with blown areas and had dynamic range limitations that even our phone cameras can outperform these days.

 

[Carlo Didier]

Just a light edit in ACR, as I wanted to retain the mood. Mostly local adjustments for the foreground. Cropped to 16:9 to make it a wider view and remove some of the not so interesting sky.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks for joining in Carlo, this is a very good result you got here.

 

[JimFox]

Just a light edit in ACR, as I wanted to retain the mood. Mostly local adjustments for the foreground. Cropped to 16:9 to make it a wider view and remove some of the not so interesting sky.
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I am liking the idea of this crop Carlo. I may have to play with mine a little more now.

 

[Kyle Jones]

Here's my take - I haven't looked at the others yet.

 

[JimFox]

Here's my take - I haven't looked at the others yet.
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With retaining the color casting the look of this, it has a very painterly feel to it.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Here is mine. Back when I captured this image, I immediately went the BW route. Both the tools available and post processing skills didn't yield the color version to my liking. A couple of years ago I revisited this and worked on the color version. Both available - although I'd go with the color version for this exercise.