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Editing exercise, week ending Feb. 26 2017


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

From our vacation in the Schwarzwald in Germany last summer. Outside the Pilgrimage church Maria Lindenberg.

Nikon Df and Nikkor Ai-S 35mm f/1.4

I haven't found the time to start processing the files so, that will be new to me as well.

 

Dropbox file:

Dropbox - 2016-Todtnau_2016-07-03_15-12-21_01112.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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I decided to do two variations, one in b&w and one in color. Both were made with the same crop.

 

1. Here is the b&w version:

ee_20170226-0001.jpg

 

I used these settings in Lightroom:

ee_20170226-0001_s.jpg

 

 

2. Here is the color version:

ee_20170226-0002.jpg

 

with these settings applied:

ee_20170226-0002_s.jpg

 

 

Thank you Bart for lettings us use your image for this exercise.

 



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Basic edits in Capture NX-D.

ADL changed to Normal from Off.

Picture control changed to my own, built from [PT] Portrait but with slightly raised clarity from [SD) Standard.

 

gallery_1251_496_648716.jpg

 

Exported versions 1, 2 and 3 steps underexposed and merged in Photomatix with the Natural preset to bring out some detail in the sky and the statue.

 

gallery_1251_496_7000.jpg

 

Over to PS for some further work.

Crop to 7:5 aspect ratio.

Cloned out the head behind the hedge.

 

gallery_1251_496_473204.jpg

 

 

And then a monochrome version, made with SEP.

Here’s the recipe with the finished color version as a starting point:

gallery_1251_496_21086.png

 

And here is the result:

 

gallery_1251_496_408916.jpg

 

Thank you Bart for letting us play with this one, it was an interesting exercise.

 


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I saw the taming of the light as the greatest challenge in this exercise. I wanted to come up with an image that wasn't all too easy.

I think you both did very well.

The crop seems to be a given. I see about the same in Peters and in Urbans results.

 

Urbans b&w is full of light and still shows details in the sky. Like the tones as well

The colour version is really creative and gives a really special mood. A technique I'll try to experiment with.

 

Peter succeeds in retrieving lots of detail from the sky and goes for a bolder processing style.

The result works really well for me, giving a dramatic interpretation both in colour as in b&w.

 

 

I set out to try to recover the sky and keep detail in the statue.

Came up with about the same crop  :)

I turned to Capture One again. Still lots to learn there so, this is as good an exercise a any.

 

I started with the crop and made a virtual copy. One for colour and one for b&w

 

For the colour, these are the settings I used:

 

p2221095531-4.jpg

 

and these for the b&w

 

p2221095514-4.jpg

 

The Capture One export was imported in LR where I removed the head behind the hedge as well and a "spare" leg on the right side.

I also added a hint of Clarity.

 

The colour version

 

p2221095518-5.jpg

 

 

I added a film emulation of Fuji Provia 100F in DxO FilmPack without further modifications:

 

p2221095516-5.jpg

 

 

The b&w from Capture One:

 

p2221095529-5.jpg