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Gear Talk => Processing & Publication => Topic started by: Tristin on September 19, 2019, 20:01:08

Title: Give this NEF a whirl!
Post by: Tristin on September 19, 2019, 20:01:08: Curious to see how the people of NG approach this. Here is the NEF at default;

(https://files.catbox.moe/93e6ns.jpg)

And the file;
https://ufile.io/wbw0m4tb

Nikkor 50mm/1.2 ai-s @f/1.2

Have fun!
Title: Re: Give this NEF a whirl!
Post by: John Geerts on September 19, 2019, 20:12:14: A kind of natural approach....
Title: Re: Give this NEF a whirl!
Post by: Fons Baerken on September 19, 2019, 20:22:07: My take
Title: Re: Give this NEF a whirl!
Post by: Birna Rørslett on September 19, 2019, 20:53:06: Can be played in any direction, for example, like this.
Title: Re: Give this NEF a whirl!
Post by: basker on September 20, 2019, 04:02:48: Tristin,
Here is my result.
Sam
Title: Re: Give this NEF a whirl!
Post by: pluton on September 20, 2019, 06:59:20: I drifted in this direction.
Title: Re: Give this NEF a whirl!
Post by: Tristin on September 20, 2019, 19:34:22: Keith, Sam and John - I enjoy the dreaminess shared and the choices in hue and distortion.

Fons - Very nostalgic!

Birna~~Bjorn~~ - I have never been able to stomach posterization, that is probably the one area our tastes just diverge. The sky, however, is right up my alley!
Title: Re: Give this NEF a whirl!
Post by: bobfriedman on September 20, 2019, 22:13:56: how's this? probably should have spent more time on this.. 15min.
Title: Re: Give this NEF a whirl!
Post by: Tristin on September 20, 2019, 22:51:50: Bob - Looks great aside from the area of trees/building where you cloned out the light. Great job balancing the sky and the ground areas.

If you're curious why I included it in the composition, this was taken at Lake Merritt which has the lights encompassing the lake along the walking path and I want to reminisce walking the lake looking at the image. Though I understand the choice to remove it.
Title: Re: Give this NEF a whirl!
Post by: bobfriedman on September 20, 2019, 23:13:11: Quote from: Tristin on September 20, 2019, 22:51:50
Bob - Looks great aside from the area of trees/building where you cloned out the light. Great job balancing the sky and the ground areas.

If you're curious why I included it in the composition, this was taken at Lake Merritt which has the lights encompassing the lake along the walking path and I want to reminisce walking the lake looking at the image. Though I understand the choice to remove it.

the whole cloning job was done very quickly to show what could be done. however, if the light was not distorted in structure-pole (I also perspective corrected the image) and out of focus I might have worked it in differently. I used luminosity masks selectively on the sky, buildings and foreground. increased sharpness and textures. clearly at wide open you going for that out-of-focus effect but felt it didn't really work here.
Title: Re: Give this NEF a whirl!
Post by: Bent Hjarbo on September 26, 2019, 15:10:35: At last I got the time.
I used Lightroom Classic, tried with PS, but did not like the result.
Title: Re: Give this NEF a whirl!
Post by: CS on September 26, 2019, 19:14:25: Quote from: bobfriedman on September 20, 2019, 22:13:56
how's this? probably should have spent more time on this.. 15min.

Best of the bunch, IMO.
Title: Re: Give this NEF a whirl!
Post by: Nikfuson on September 26, 2019, 20:10:51: Me humble trial...
Title: Re: Give this NEF a whirl!
Post by: Tristin on September 26, 2019, 20:17:51: Bent, the balance of sky and ground is excellent!

Nikfusion, wow. I hadn't considered BW for this image, but I am glad you did. Very striking! The cropped oar makes me bit my finger a bit though haha. ;)