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Post by hmca on Feb 4, 2023 14:22:53 GMT
The photographer is interested in suggestions for cropping, what to emphasise and dealing with the very flat light winter light. It will be interesting to see how our members will address this image. 1. Participants in the challenge may provide a screenshot of their edits within the RAW converter of their choice along with the reasons for their edits. 2. Following their initial edits members may use whatever “tools" they wish to create an image that portrays their artistic vision for the image as long as the character of the original image is not lost. You may not add anything to the image that wasn’t already there. 3. Including information on plug-ins, actions, external editors, textures, sky replacements etc that were used will only help to inform members of some of the creative options that are available to today’s photographer. 4. Including layer stacks may be something to consider when presenting a final edit. Comments are restricted to complimenting another member's edits. You have until Thursday February 16th to submit your edits. The photographer will then choose three favorite renditions. This is a screenshot of the image we will be working on>  You can download the file here. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Feb 4, 2023 17:08:41 GMT
Neat ice formations. hmca I did a quick edit but am unable to upload at 10:08 MST |
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Post by kdcintx on Feb 4, 2023 18:16:28 GMT
I like the calmness and serenity of this wintry scene.
Can't upload edited version as of 2/4/23 12:15 central time. Will try again later.
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Post by hmca on Feb 4, 2023 20:23:49 GMT
So sorry, Clive and Karen. I am looking forward to seeing your work. I always find Cubeupload easy to use. I choose direct link and copy paste to post....if you are interested in trying it.
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Post by fotofrank on Feb 4, 2023 22:09:02 GMT
Thanks for this Helen.   Cropped, flipped, cleaned up distracting elements, finished in NIK Color Efex Pro custom preset. |
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Post by hmca on Feb 4, 2023 22:20:02 GMT
Thanks for getting this challenge started with a beautifully toned image, fotofrank. I like the flip. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Feb 5, 2023 0:07:21 GMT
I got a little arty with the photo. Briefly: -- straightened the horizon -- cloned out an offending dark branch in upper right -- reopened in ACR and made assorted adjustments (should have the changes somewhere) -- duplicated the BG -- made a marquee tool selection duplicated and added a blue stroke border -- blurred the BG layer If I was to do another edit I might make the off-colored ice bluer.  |
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Post by hmca on Feb 5, 2023 0:49:55 GMT
Interesting and unexpected edit, Clive. If I was to do another edit I might make the off-colored ice bluer. No limit on submissions. Post as many as you would like. |
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Post by kdcintx on Feb 5, 2023 3:51:01 GMT
I like the calmness and serenity of this wintry scene. Edited it ACR and PSE. As the photographer noted, the lighting is flat so I added some color without replacing the sky and did a little dodging to clean the dirty ice. Cloned out the debris in the water. To me, the interest is the ice formations on the trees, so I cropped to draw attention to the trees/ice while leaving enough background to add context to the scene. i.ibb.co/Mh8CPgy/Lake-Huron-Ice.jpg |
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Post by hmca on Feb 5, 2023 15:58:03 GMT
Thanks for sharing the feeling that the image imparts to you, Karen. I can see where the delicate colors you chose to enhance the image with reflect your vision for the scene.
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Post by hmca on Feb 5, 2023 16:06:45 GMT
For my base edit I wanted to push the exposure to the right. I hope it will help me achieve the look that I want to create for future edits. I will often flip and image. However, I don't think I would have thought to do it with this one if I hadn't seen fotofrank 's edit first. I like the weight being on the left.....although I could also understand where this might not work for the photographer who might want to keep it more accurate to the location. I should have added that I continued working with it in PS to get a lighter look.
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Post by hmca on Feb 6, 2023 15:49:24 GMT
I wanted to create a high key minimalist look. I started with my image above and cloned out the dock. The difficult part was removing the section visible in the gap in the tree. I selected it, covered it with the color or the water and carefully brought back some ice. I combined the high key and a bit of dynamic contrast filters from Silver Efex for the finished image.  |
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Post by tourerjim on Feb 6, 2023 20:42:22 GMT
Look at this image for too long and like nothing has changed 😁 I particularly like the ripples in the water.   |
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Post by hmca on Feb 7, 2023 0:21:27 GMT
You've opened up the shadows, enhanced the color and stayed true to the photographer's original vision, Jim.
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Post by PeteB on Feb 7, 2023 13:45:36 GMT
Hi Helen The challenge for me was to try to keep the snow white, recover info from the water & sky, and deal with the cool (blue) temperature. With those goals in mind I made adjustments in ACR and I then applied Nik filters for details. But I ended up with the color blue dominating the image. So I decided to convert to B&W using Silver Efex (preset Hint of Blue). I also straightened the horizon and slightly blurred the background. For cropping I thought the original framing (in a 3x2 aspect ratio) divided the image in half. By cropping using a 4x3 ratio, I thought the subject becomes more dominant. Thanks for the image    |
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