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Gear Talk => Processing & Publication => Topic started by: Andrea B. on August 06, 2015, 02:37:47
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What would you do when editing this photo shot into the stems of an Echinacea forest ?
Crop? HDR? Soften the details? Add a glowy overlay?
Make it a black & white? Or sepia-toned?
Emphasize the stems? the flowers? the bees?
Be wild, be cautious, be whatever with your edits as long as you are having fun.
Download the raw, then convert/edit it in your favorite converter/editor
and post it to this thread.
Or you may postprocess it if you are so inclined. ;D ;D ;D
In a week or so, I will look through the submissions and pick a "Winner".
But note that Winners may be picked on a whim - or a coin toss - and winning means nothing except the joy of being the next person to provide us all with a raw file to edit for the next Edit Challenge. It is a lot of fun to see the different ways folks edit and the different thoughts they have about how a photo should look.
Part of the challenge with this photo is that the colour needs to be corrected.
Look up Echinacea purpurea to get an idea of its colours.
The bumblebee has yellow & orange bands.
DROPBOX LINK: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yxwc1szbsb1d1j6/echinaceaPurpurea_visSun_20150804charlotteRhoadesSwhME_38099.nef?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/yxwc1szbsb1d1j6/echinaceaPurpurea_visSun_20150804charlotteRhoadesSwhME_38099.nef?dl=0)
Here is a bit of help for the Echinacea colours. This variety is not too saturated for the petal colour.
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Here's a quick take of mine. Please download the file to view in the originally posted size.
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Quick take.
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this is my acid/funky version 8)
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Great we do it here too!
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wonderful colors
I enjoyed playing with the file
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Lots of pixels there if you anyone wants to try some crops?
This is from another version of the same scene.
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A couple of different crops:
(http://otoien.zenfolio.com/img/s2/v1/p1377866851.jpg)
(http://otoien.zenfolio.com/img/s12/v177/p1377866931.jpg)
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Trying the large version
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unfortunately the framing does not suit both flowers... i would have framed them both or gotten closer to each one at a time.. i assume this was a UV-Nikkor 105/4.5
the BG could use more suppression than i attempted.. but since i use smart objects i can always go back and increase it. :)
also i would have used Adobe colorspace instead of sRGB.
(http://www.pbase.com/image/160948311/original.jpg)
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i guess you could do something like this.. i would have concentrated on the flower on the right since it has more interesting bees without losing the pedals.
(http://www.pbase.com/image/160948743/original.jpg)
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a straight edit. Color fidelity was important and softness to suit the topic.
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Øivind Tøien, I like your detail extraction!
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Very good idea by the way. Many options possible here ;)
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BTW, I apologize for the slightly "off" colours. It has nothing to do with aRGB or sRGB. This photo was made on my full spectrum D600 using a Baader UV/IR Cut filter which does not perfectly restore the original colours. So you might have to work on those greens & pinks as part of the Challenge if you choose a realistic interpretation. (That's why I left a little profiled sample of the pinks in the introductory post. Of course, the precise colour is not particularly important.)
I deliberately made some non-standard compositional shots. Gotta shake things up sometimes. Here is a strange crop from another version of the scene.
Corner Bumblebees
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oh i get it now (and i am quite slow connecting the dots).. i guess we should have come up with that. huh.
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Would anyone else like to play with the raw foto?
No cutouts? Drop shadows? B&W conversions?
I'll give it a couple more days.
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There are some excellent renditions of the Bees and Coneflowers posted to our first Edit Challenge. Everyone did very well. Isn't it fun to work on someone else's foto and make it into what you think it should look like?? ;) ;D
I am going to declare Øivind Tøien the "Winner" of Edit Challenge #1 because I like the way he chose a smaller well-composed photo from the larger one in his first posted foto.
John Geerts also went in that direction.
Øivind, when you have a moment, please start a thread for Edit Challenge #2 and provide a Dropbox (or other) link to a raw file download you have chosen for us all to work on.
Note to newcomers: We usually let the Edit Challenge run about a week or until there has been about 24 hours with no posts.
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When I designed the format I named it "Raw Editing Contest"
Øivind Tøien is a very worthy winner. I like to take an editing course with him
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Thanks for choosing me to carry on Andrea, and for the kind words Frank. I will continue in the spirit of this first thread so will keep title accordingly.
I will start the new thread shortly.