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Editing exercise, week ending Feb. 19 2017


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First a message from this week's file submitter, bani12.

This image was taken past summer in a little Croatian town called Savudrija. The sunset was quite boring due to the lack of clouds in the sky. I took a long exposure to soften the sea. I am interested in seeing different variations of this image as I was struggling a bit with my interpretation.

 

Dropbox file:

Dropbox - _UT18841.NEF - Simplify your life

 

And then the rules:

The exercise is weekly, a new thread with a new raw (preferably) or jpg fine file for each week.

The exercise officially runs until midnight between sunday and monday pst (UTC-8). Even after the official deadline, the exercise is still open for new interpretations.

This is a round-robin exercise, the order of submitting the week’s raw file is based on an alphabetical list of applicants’ user names. If the next submitter on the list is unable to post at his/her turn he/she may ask the thread master to be moved down the list no later than friday morning. Late applications will be added at the bottom of the list.

We will revise this when every applicant has had a go, and perhaps change this model.

 

The submitter for the week must make the file along with any specific text for the post available to the thread master during the weekend preceding the challenge week. The thread master will then copy the file to a Dropbox location for the challenge and make the starting post for the week.

 

The exercise is open to all members, not only the file submitters.

 

Images provided, as well as the images resulting from the exercise remain the sole property of the photographer who took them. Those participating in the editing exercise may not use or display the photo outside the exercise thread.

 

It is allowed to make derivative interpretations on other participants’ work (a collaborative approach). If you base your take on someone else’s work, you must indicate what you started from.

 

The owner of the photo comments on the work done, highlighting what he liked best (both the interpretation itself and the technique used to get there) after the original week is over.

 

As this exercise is a tool for learning and inspiration, multiple entries are not only ok, but encouraged if a participant gets a new idea for how to present or interpret the photo, including artistic interpretations.

 

Participants must share how they have achieved their take on the photo.

 

 

Participants are explicitly not limited as to what software is used for the exercise.

 

 



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An appealing and tranquil scene, Urban. Doesn't look boring to me. But then, I'm a real fan of the sea.

Interesting to work on a long exposure image. I have no experience with this technique.

 

I used DxO Optics for the first step of the processing.

Set the colour rendering for the camera body and downloaded the camera-lens module.

Spot weighted lighting concentrating on the brightest part of the sky and the sea.

And these further settings;

 

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giving this first stage result (spots removed in LR)

 

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Took this into DxO FilmPack where I picked the emulation of Kodak Ektachrome 100 VS to start from.

 

I added these settings, including a split toning on a colour image  :)

 

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Result

 

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For b&w, I used Silver Efex, starting from the DxO Optics output again.

 

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Thanks, Urban for lending us this enjoyable image to work on.



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Urban, I like the dark moodiness of the original, very forbidding, at least to me.  I lightened it up, taking some shadows out of the rocks as they have some color in LR5. Straightened the horizon a bit, and tried to bring out some of the color on the horizon.  I then converted into B/W in Topaz and gave it a simplified look.

 

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My take on this is to make it look as natural as I can.

 

Basic edits in Capture NX-D.

ADL changed to Normal from Off.

Picture control changed to [LS] Portrait from [SD) Standard.

LoCA removal activated.

Distortion correction activated.

Contrast raised slightly.

 

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Thank you, Urban for letting us play with it.



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Thanks to all who participated in this week's editing exercise. Some interesting interpretations.

 

Bart, I like sharp rocks on your image and your overall conversion to b&w. I think rocks really come to life and the sea just fades in the background.

deano, I like your interpretation as well. It reminds me of an old movie scene with much softer approach than Bart's.

Peter, If Bart's interpretation highlights the rocks, I think yours highlights the sky with very gentle and soft colors. I would just add a little bit of light on the rock and that would be it. I hope you don't mind me saying (writing) that.

 

As I wrote, I had some issues with this image. Being very busy at work at the moment, here is my take on this image:

 

savudrija-0001.jpg

 

I applied these settings:

savudrija-0001_settings.jpg

 

I also added graduated filter on the top and bottom of the image and added some highlights on the rocks.



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Urban, I tried lightening the foreground, but I couldn't get it to look natural with the post-sunset feel I got in the sky. It is probably doable, but I couldn't help inducing an artificial feeling that way.



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Urban, I tried lightening the foreground, but I couldn't get it to look natural with the post-sunset feel I got in the sky. It is probably doable, but I couldn't help inducing an artificial feeling that way.

 

I understand, Peter. Thanks for clearing that up :)