Let’s play #32

[Ben Egbert]

See the let’s play guidelines above.

See what you can do with this image.

Here is a link to the image.

https://www.focalworld.com/index.php?resources/lets-play-32.50/

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

Note, I will be out of town next Friday, but I hope to be able to start the vote thread from there. Be patient if It’s late.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Ok here is my version as a kick off. Pile on

 

[AlanLichty]

Here's my hack:

 

[rfkiii]

Here you go.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks Rick and Alan, looking good.

Rick, I am heading for Deer Lodge in 1/2 hour, see ya tomorrow.

 

[Amy Nelson]

Here's my take on it. Originally I had the sky darker and foreground lighter, but then I looked at the time of day the image was shot and realized it should be the opposite.

 

[JimFox]

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Here you go.

Nice work Rick!

 

[rfkiii]

Thanks Rick and Alan, looking good.

Rick, I am heading for Deer Lodge in 1/2 hour, see ya tomorrow.

Awesome. CYA tamale.

 

[rfkiii]

Nice work Rick!

Thanks Jim. I missed our Friday get together yesterday.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Far too much sky for me and just to try it I converted the image to Lab colour which should have allowed me to separate the largely sandy tones with curves. I think that it really hasn't worked very well. Again I find it interesting how soil tones like these are totally unknown here and in most of Europe. I also cropped a lot of the sky. Ken

 

[Doug P]

My hack of the image. Multiple curves layers to brighten parts of the subject and add a little texture. Darkened down the bright cloud on the right and left sides as they were a bit distracting to me.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Here's my take on it. Originally I had the sky darker and foreground lighter, but then I looked at the time of day the image was shot and realized it should be the opposite.
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I also had that thought but made it bright anyway, not too good at making dark images so glad you did.

Far too much sky for me and just to try it I converted the image to Lab colour which should have allowed me to separate the largely sandy tones with curves. I think that it really hasn't worked very well. Again I find it interesting how soil tones like these are totally unknown here and in most of Europe. I also cropped a lot of the sky. KenView attachment 20091

I also cut out some sky for the same reason. This looks pretty good to me

 

[Ben Egbert]

My hack of the image. Multiple curves layers to brighten parts of the subject and add a little texture. Darkened down the bright cloud on the right and left sides as they were a bit distracting to me.

View attachment 20093

Good one Doug

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Here is my cut at it.

 

[JimFox]

Far too much sky for me and just to try it I converted the image to Lab colour which should have allowed me to separate the largely sandy tones with curves. I think that it really hasn't worked very well. Again I find it interesting how soil tones like these are totally unknown here and in most of Europe. I also cropped a lot of the sky. KenView attachment 20091

I am liking your idea with the crop Ken.