Let’s play #37

[Ben Egbert]

See the let’s play guidelines above.

Here is a link to the image.

https://www.focalworld.com/index.php?resources/lets-play-37.56/

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

 

[Ben Egbert]

Here is mine, I worked hard on that vignetting upper right, polarizer maybe. Not my forte to fix uneven sky's.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Come on folks, where are your entries?

 

[Mike Lewis]

Here is mine, cropped a bit off the bottom mostly, and then tried to bring up the areas in deep shadow. Had lots of problems with uneven sky (just like I always do in my own images...)

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• Mike Lewis
• Oct 13, 2019

M Lewis, entry for Let's Play, #37

 

[AlanLichty]

This is a road (laptop) edit so hopefully the colors aren't whacked.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Here is mine, cropped a bit off the bottom mostly, and then tried to bring up the areas in deep shadow. Had lots of problems with uneven sky (just like I always do in my own images...)

LetsPlay37_MLewis__D7K0842_1

• Mike Lewis
• Oct 13, 2019

M Lewis, entry for Let's Play, #37

Much nicer job on the sky than my effort.

 

[Ben Egbert]

This is a road (laptop) edit so hopefully the colors aren't whacked.

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I like the tones you got here and while the upper left sky is still sort of dark, the color is not muddy like mine.

 

[JimFox]

Let me just say the uneven sky to me isn't a real issue here I don't think, and I am super picky about uneven skies. Where uneven skies become an issue is when there is a polarizer blob dead center in the sky.

In this case, the left side of the sky is brighter and the right side is darker. The left side is the light source, so it has to be brighter. So except for a little bit of work perhaps to help the gradiation between the light to dark, I think the sky isn't really an issue.

At least, that's my thoughts on it.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Jim thanks for you thoughts. The original has a vignette look on the right, so I considered it something to fix.

 

[JimFox]

Jim thanks for you thoughts. The original has a vignette look on the right, so I considered it something to fix.

I do agree with you Ben, it's a bit too dark in the upper right.

In my edit I am lightening it up some too. But I wanted to state that it wasn't the worst case and I didn't think a ton of work needed to be done with it. The worst case of an uneven sky is when that dark sky is in the middle of the sky.

My efforts to lighten it took about 2 minutes max, mostly in ACR where with the selective color Blue can be lightened up some, along with the shadow adjust lightening it up. Then in Photoshop it's easy to do a layer mask feathered at about 500px, and then again with Selective Color just lighten up the blue a tad.

 

[Kyle Jones]

Different approach... I played up the light coming from the left.

 

[JimFox]

Different approach... I played up the light coming from the left.

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I like it Kyle! Of course we will now have 2 B&W in a row edits as I went the same approach, though mine does look different.

 

[JimFox]

Here is mine. I was thinking similar to Kyle, but our end results are a lot different.

I did the B&W adjust in Photoshop, so I could darken the Blues some. Then I did 2 versions of the ground layer, one where I brightened up the tower area and then one where I darkened the bottom area and I used a layer mask to blend them. I then also went back and darkened the lower right corner.

I also did use the Warp tool to pull a bit of distortion out of the image and to pull out the bottom of the shot.

 

[JimFox]

Kyle, I have to say after seeing your edit now next to mine, I do really like your pushing the light more. Also your crop is cool.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I do agree with you Ben, it's a bit too dark in the upper right.

In my edit I am lightening it up some too. But I wanted to state that it wasn't the worst case and I didn't think a ton of work needed to be done with it. The worst case of an uneven sky is when that dark sky is in the middle of the sky.

My efforts to lighten it took about 2 minutes max, mostly in ACR where with the selective color Blue can be lightened up some, along with the shadow adjust lightening it up. Then in Photoshop it's easy to do a layer mask feathered at about 500px, and then again with Selective Color just lighten up the blue a tad.

Thanks Jim, I have never used that approach to fixing sky's, I will give it a try. Notice how muddy looking my approach was.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Different approach... I played up the light coming from the left.

Very nice Kyle.

 

[Kyle Jones]

I like it Kyle! Of course we will now have 2 B&W in a row edits as I went the same approach, though mine does look different.

You just snuck your B&W in ahead of me last time.

 

[JimFox]

You just snuck your B&W in ahead of me last time.

Ha ha! That’s funny, miles apart but unknowingly posting similar approaches at the same time.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Like that B&W edit Kyle!

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