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Post by hmca on Jan 28, 2019 5:40:46 GMT
PeteB.....beautifully toned. I am especially interested in your use of the golden ratio. I am familiar with all the grids but am unsure of how you decide on which one is best to use for a particular image, beyond the rule of thirds and the diagonal.
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Fauxtoto
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Post by Fauxtoto on Jan 28, 2019 20:26:24 GMT
farm5.staticflickr.com/4807/39944246783_f93a43d749_b.jpgAll in LR. Tried to keep the spirit. Straightened, based on the top of the arch. Tranformed, for the vertical lines. Did a general white balance. Carity +40. Croped some of the street in the front; I wanted to keep left widow because I thought it was relevant to the architectural concept. Most of the rest was done with different adjustment brushes: balance the light on the left building, the center (street) and the right building; lowered exposure and highlights in the vitrine; Lightened the leading lines on the street/sidewalks; lightened the statues on the top of the buildings; corrected the green in the Arch, taking for granted that it was not a wanted effect, but just the result of neon type lights. Attenuated the purple lights on the top of the arch by augmenting the luminance and lowering the saturation.
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Post by tonyw on Jan 28, 2019 21:55:24 GMT
Fauxtoto: Very nice use of the adjustment brushes in LR to tweak various parts of the image. The nice thing about raw files is how much information is there that you can't see until you bring it back with local adjustments. Night images like this are particular good examples of where shooting in raw shines.
Tony
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Post by Lillias on Jan 29, 2019 10:28:20 GMT
In Affinity Photo Straightened image Black&White adjustment layer Threshold Adjustment layer and blended with coloured version using the Hard Light Blend mode Applied Clarity Filter.  Then took the above image and added a Rust Texture from the Photoshop Artistry Texture folder and gave it a darken blend mode. See texture inset below.
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Post by hmca on Jan 29, 2019 14:53:47 GMT
I think the addition of the texture introduces a whole new direction for this image, Lillias. Could see this as a book cover.
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Post by hmca on Jan 30, 2019 2:09:15 GMT
Inspired by Karen, Judy and Lillias.......I decided to just "play" with this image tonight and I only have a vague idea of what I did as I didn't know when to stop! I know I started out by using a lightened version and took it into Topaz Impression, added a texture and ended up in NIK....Silver Efex. There were too many steps in-between to remember but it was a fun play to move away from a straight photo adjustment.  |
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Post by bobharron on Jan 30, 2019 18:26:22 GMT
Used Lightroom. Straighten image, use adjustment brush to up exposure on top of arch and across top of left building, converted to black and white using Matt Kloskowski free preset, sharpened and reduced noise. i.ibb.co/XWQ0Skr/Night-scene.jpg |
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Post by hmca on Jan 30, 2019 19:48:36 GMT
Looks good, Bob. Thanks for mentioning the preset you used.
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Post by alexr on Jan 30, 2019 20:03:59 GMT
All done in Lightroom: straightened, cropped in a little, desaturated all except the main purple feature and a few points of interest on the tables etc. Denoised a bit. Lightened up some of the statues on the right roof and the wall on the left. Added a vignette.  |
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Post by PeteB on Jan 30, 2019 21:56:13 GMT
Hi Helen I do not use the Photoshop grids for subject placing. I primarily use two custom shapes — the golden section and the golden spiral. I downloaded these shapes years ago and I have used them for almost all of my images. My favorite is the golden section. When I decided that I wanted to crop the challenge photo, I opened the custom shape on its own layer above the photo layer and it served as a guide for subject placing and cropping. Although I do not use the spiral often, I did use it for placement of the sun in this gallery photo photoshopelementsandmore.com/post/53468 |
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Post by hmca on Jan 30, 2019 22:38:07 GMT
Thanks, Pete. I remember having a big discussion about the different crop variants at Ev but I've never quite figured them out.
I probably should finally make it a priority.
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Post by hmca on Jan 30, 2019 22:40:34 GMT
Interesting to see the individual preferences for editing this image. Alex, thanks for sharing your LR workflow.
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Post by Bailey on Feb 1, 2019 10:04:29 GMT
With this image, my aim was to edit the image so that it represents as close as possible what I imagine the scene would have looked like in terms of detail and tones. The general steps I took were: 1. Open in ACR 2. Correct white balance 3. Adjust various sliders to extract/restore as much detail as possible in the shadows and highlights respectively. 4. Remove the significant noise. 5. Open in PSE editor. 6. Straighten the image horizontally and vertically. 7. Use a Levels Adjustment Layer to adjust the individual rgb channels to maximise the tonal range with minimal clipping. 8. Dodge and burn using 50% grey layer to fine tune the extraction and restoration of detail in the shadows and highlights. 9. Crop the image to simulate a panorama. I felt there was too much dead space in the foreground. Cropping tends to bring the various people in the scene into more of an "image subject" role. 10. Sharpen using the Unsharp Mask.  Click image to view enlargement which is clearer  Original |
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Post by hmca on Feb 1, 2019 14:52:58 GMT
Nice job, Bailey. What I notice in particular is the blue that you and Fauxtoto were able to bring out in the window on the left.
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Post by Bailey on Feb 3, 2019 1:15:30 GMT
Thank you hmca.
As I am sure you are aware, the large amount of data in a raw file compared to a jpeg is one of the advantages of shooting raw.
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