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Gear Talk => Processing & Publication => Topic started by: Øivind Tøien on August 13, 2015, 14:03:52
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Thanks to Andrea to passing this one to me. Of course I could not resist starting out with IR. :) This time from Little Grand Canyon in Utah. To make it more interesting I am providing two captures that can be used individually, one or the other, or be combined into a panorama - it is all up to you how much to include, consider all possibilities. As usual I am interested in what can be extracted of colors that harmonize with the subject, but anything goes.
Here is the dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3a79eotezkn158x/AADAVA-LdVjfTzkoWvbtEHLUa?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3a79eotezkn158x/AADAVA-LdVjfTzkoWvbtEHLUa?dl=0)
Please do not hesitate to notify me if there are problems downloading.
(Edit: When I tried access in another browser it came up with a register window; just close it and there will be access to the folder.)
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I humbly harmonized :)
Did not make it funky this time!
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whats IR? :-*
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Strange colors ;)
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Oh the stars are nice!
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IR and UV are a challenge for my editing skills and my images tend to look boring in comparison with other edits
anyway here is mine, replaced the sky with a shot from my library
(https://armando-m.smugmug.com/photos/i-n9b7ssS/0/X2/i-n9b7ssS-X2.jpg)
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Great efforts so far, keep them coming!
I wonder if someone would have a go at a red planet version? (When moving/inverting the red channel the reds get lost...)
Perhaps I should not lock the minds with a visible shot, but below is a shot of the whole scene indicating the red tones of the rocks that could inspire such a scenario...
(http://otoien.zenfolio.com/img/s4/v65/p1398451245.jpg)
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colour separation was the goal. And I personally wanted a blue sky, which was there right in the file, found in my L*ab.
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Armando I like your sky :)
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Armando, cool sky!!
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For me, the foto seemed to want to be a Moonscape or a Planetscape, but I'm not sure which Moon or which Planet. "-)
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Anything extraterrestrial goes. ;) - Keep them coming.
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Another bump to accommodate possible late contributions.
As there has not been posts in many days, I will let it run for one or two days more and then declare the "winner".
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I played a bit around and saw that the photo cleary was taken on Mars.
I wonder if someone would have a go at a red planet version?
Even before I read that :D
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that is COOL !!!
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In my case the red version (à la zuglufttier) was what PhotoNinja came up with naturally. Yet I felt separation of colours and extraction of details was what Øivind Tøien was asking for...
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Well it is time to pass it on and there were some great effort here.
I like the contrasty processing of Jakov, Werner (Alaun) and Andrea. I am also impressed by how well details in the shadows were kept in these.
Jakov's squeeze of the proportions caught the attention at first sight, and there were some interesting greens showing up in the shadows.
Elsa's stars are also very creative.
Johns graphic effect is very interesting, almost like a lithography. I wonder what it would have looked with a different crop.
Amando's addition of clouds worked quite well, although the contrast feels a bit mellow.
Frank brought the green/yellows back into the vegetation along with the blue sky.
And then zuglufttier's red planet version stands out in not using the trick of moving the color channels, and the crop works well. While this might seem sophisticated than the other processing, I think that it image wise works quite well here, especially since the sky is light enough to make it orange rather than the less pleasant dark browns that often occur without moving color channels on a clear sky.
Very hard choices here but a "winner" has to be declared.
Although I was somewhat biased toward a red planet version a priori,
I think that Andrea's selection of crop, with excellent detail and creation of a moonlit landscape with the dark sky stands out among these in the simplicity of the composition. It could make a nice print to hang on the wall. So I must pass the challenge back to you Andrea.
Finally my own edit which I did long time ago. It suffers a bit from some halos around the mountains, especially the pinnacle, so I am not quite sure how much I like it any longer. The crop could also be better.
(http://otoien.zenfolio.com/img/s7/v166/p1431619275.jpg)
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Øivind -- Thank you for the kind remarks about my edit. Your foto was a good Edit Challenge foto because there were many directions in which to take it.
I have been on vacation in Yellowstone National Park and have just now returned home to be online once again. So I will start the next Edit Challenge very soon.