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Title: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: Andrea B. on September 05, 2015, 17:36:41
I am late responding to the Edit Challenge because I have just now returned from a sojourn in Yellowstone National Park where being online was not possible unless one wished to fork over $10/day for the privilege. I decided not to do this because being internet-free for a few days seemed like it might be a good thing to try.

My observation about this No Net Interlude was that I did not miss reading "the News" to keep up with the tragic state of world affairs, however I desperately wanted to look up topics in Wikipedia about bison, geysers, thermal springs and other Yellowstone related phenomena. Curiosity can be so easily satisfied these days, can't it?  :D

I will get an Edit Challenge foto posted very soon after I unpack and unload my filled-up SD cards.
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: Andrea B. on September 05, 2015, 18:22:04
Found a good Challenge for you which was already off loaded onto my laptop.

So, here are four of my tourist snapshots from Yellowstone National Park (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_National_Park) showing the Fountain Geyser (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_Geyser) erupting - two landscape and two portrait snaps. These fotos were made with the Df and the 24-70/2.8 AFS. If anyone tells you to leave the zoom at home when touring National Parks containing geysers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geyser) and bison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison), do not listen to them. Zoom is the only way you are going to get anywhere near boiling water and wild animals - especially when you have to travel on a tourist bus and thus cannot carry a tripod with a 600mm prime. "-)

The fotos are a bit underexposed because I frequently manage to knock the Df's Matrix metering setting over onto Spot metering. There is a lot of structure in the clouds and rocks. There is less structure in the boiling hot water and steam from the erupting geyser, but I think it can be enhanced a bit.

So pick one of these files and let's see what you can do with it! Crops, detail enhancement, unusual filters -- anything is permitted.  Can one of these fotos work as a straightforward documentary? Is there an interesting abstraction lurking somewhere?

LINK to Dropbox Zip File:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/qiotw0qptsookrl/FountainGeyser.zip?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/qiotw0qptsookrl/FountainGeyser.zip?dl=0)

Small versions of the originals are attached.
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: John Geerts on September 05, 2015, 19:12:56
Very nice geysers.    I took the last one.   With some detail ;) 
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: HCS on September 05, 2015, 19:37:58
I chose the 2nd one, crop and sorta cross processing
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: Bjørn J on September 05, 2015, 20:19:25
I chose the second one - the hand does it all



Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: Frank Fremerey on September 05, 2015, 21:14:17
shoe shot revealed.

Which is better sharpening wise on your screen?
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: stenrasmussen on September 05, 2015, 21:51:02
My humble interpretation:
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: Andrea B. on September 05, 2015, 21:57:59


Frank, that is someone's hat. I'm assuming the hat blew off and landed in the geyser area. It tends to be windy in that location.

I certainly do hope that the hat does not belong to the sunken head of some hapless tourist who wandered into the hot chemicals and disappeared.....never to be seen again.

Your first version seems to show the details a bit better. But the difference between the two fotos is not huge.
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: Almass on September 05, 2015, 22:13:32
Rise and Glow.....






(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/Duke_1/andreaBlum_fountainGeyser_20150209yellowstoneNpWY_12455_zps8q53adgy.jpg)
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: Frank Fremerey on September 05, 2015, 23:23:36
Almass. You certainly did shoot the deputy as a side dish.

Andrea. Very good Idea to shoot a set of pictures at us.
Huge room for interpretation.
On my screen #1 is overdone by a serious margin
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: Andrea B. on September 06, 2015, 03:56:51
All interpretations are valid when making Photographic Art.
Sometimes the in-camea shot already is the final version; sometimes it is just the beginning of an artistic journey.
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: Jørgen Ramskov on September 07, 2015, 15:49:25
Tried a few different crops and such:

#1
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/585/20594681334_c8304742b6_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xnT8fE)
Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/xnT8fE) by Joergen Ramskov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jramskov/), on Flickr

#2
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5813/20594685304_91212e251b_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xnT9r7)
Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/xnT9r7) by Joergen Ramskov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jramskov/), on Flickr

#3
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5681/21029265180_5a0c3810b8_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/y3htTA)
Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/y3htTA) by Joergen Ramskov (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jramskov/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: pluton on September 07, 2015, 19:32:37


"Which is better sharpening wise on your screen?"
On the 13" laptop, 800x1280, the first one is sharper-looking small, but when opened in a new window, the the first on looks oversharpened and the second one looks good.
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: Andrea B. on September 11, 2015, 20:56:21
Any more entries? If not, I'll close the Edit Challenge tomorrow.
(Sorry for the delay! Been traveling. Been hosting house guests.)
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: Jakov Minić on September 11, 2015, 21:34:54
my take on the 1st image.
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: Andrea B. on September 13, 2015, 22:58:13
There are some terrific interpretations of the Geyser fotos in this Challenge. Very cool stuff!!

I like the way the water & steam were detailed in the edits of John, Jørgen and Jakov (and great colours Jakov!).
I like the abstractions made by Sten and Almass. They work well.
I like the minimalism of the Lost Hat provided by Frank.

My finalists are the 3 photos with the hand in the corner. I love how that shot worked out and was edited by HCS, BjørnJ and Jørgen.

HCS made a good grop of the hand foto but as a matter of personal taste the colour edits are a bit too heavy for me although they do work compositionally. Jørgen showed me that this kind of natural phenomenon looks very good in monochrome, sepia in particular, but I think there does need to be some kind of crop on the foto.

So I am going to select the edit done by BjørnJ because he has cropped just the right amount off the left side.

BjørnJ, when you get a moment, please start Edit Challenge #4.  ;D

Thanks everyone for participating!
I learn a lot from these Edit Challenges and hope you enjoy them too.

Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: Bjørn J on September 14, 2015, 00:08:28
Thanks Andrea!
 
Now I, with my sometimes indecisive mind, has to pick a photo for others to edit. Hmmm. I need some time to think.
Maybe the one of you fishing for cod in Lofoten  ;D ;D
Are there any rules in this game?
Title: Re: Edit Challenge #3: Fountain Geyser
Post by: Andrea B. on September 14, 2015, 00:20:27
No rules, really. No prizes. Just fun.

Some guidelines: