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04/10/2006 11:06:21 AM · #1 |
Since this was a no holds barred challenge, may we see the originals and what did you do to improve on it? Thanks.
Here's the challenge entry:
Here's the original:
I added the rays of light and changed the atmosphere of the shot.
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04/10/2006 11:12:15 AM · #2 |
Rikki,
I like this shot very much and gave it a high vote. But I don't find the light rays convincing. The sunlight illuminating the room is coming from the left--so it can't be shining in the windows on the right to create light rays.
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04/10/2006 11:15:24 AM · #3 |
Great idea, Rikki.
Here is the way I edited my shot way back when compared to how I re-edited it for the challenge:
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 New
Wow - my editing skill has improved so much. I was very happy with the old shot, until I pulled it back out and gave it a new look.
Message edited by author 2006-04-10 11:16:47.
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04/10/2006 11:16:59 AM · #4 |
Hey Dan-
Thanks for the comment. True that the sun is coming from the left however, the illusion created through editing made it "seem" to appear that there were other possibilities of the placement of the sun. It could appear that the light rays were stray light bouncing off other walls of building etc. I think that's the beauty and the source of my curiousity in these "no-holds barred" challenges.
Thanks for noticing. Not a single person mentioned that and I did notice it during the challenge ;) |
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04/10/2006 11:34:36 AM · #5 |
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I've put step-by-step screenshots of the color processing (not sharpening) in this pbase gallery -- here are the individual thumbnails:
  
 
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04/10/2006 11:36:41 AM · #6 |
I just had a lot of fixing to do to take my 82K 640x480 original from
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04/10/2006 11:43:49 AM · #7 |
Here are mine:
Original
Submitted
I did the post-processing in 2002 and I don't remember exactly what I did. All I did for the submission was to resize and resharpen the file from 2002. I can see that I had separate curves adjustment layers for the tunnel and the outside space.
The white circles in the original are due to rain drops on the lens. I was glad to find a tunnel to keep me dry!
--DanW |
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04/10/2006 11:54:19 AM · #8 |
Here`s mine. I was new to photoshop back in 2002 :)
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04/10/2006 11:58:59 AM · #9 |
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04/10/2006 12:00:48 PM · #10 |
Something fishy going on here.. GeneralE is posting, but these shots are in Bear_Music's portfolio... |
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04/10/2006 12:13:48 PM · #11 |
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After: 
Cool, but not quite as good as this one... too bad it was 2004 :-p
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A cool thing to do with the two above is to put them in two separate browser or tabs and go between them hehe
Lee
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04/10/2006 12:14:36 PM · #12 |
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04/10/2006 12:22:12 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by marbo:
Here`s mine. I was new to photoshop back in 2002 :)
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That's a great shot and a wonderful job of processing. However, I think a warning should go out to anyone fairly new to this site that modifications as illustrated here probably would not pass Advanced Editing rules (removal of major element) in a regular members challenge.
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04/10/2006 12:24:34 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by Artyste:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
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Something fishy going on here.. GeneralE is posting, but these shots are in Bear_Music's portfolio... |
Confused me too...
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04/10/2006 12:38:44 PM · #15 |
| but if you also notice they are called general-xxx which is how bear usually denotes it is not his shot but one he worked on/helped someone else with. |
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04/10/2006 12:43:52 PM · #16 |
| The shot that GeneralE posted as his after isn't the same as the shot he entered. I'm guessing that Bear told him how to process it (and maybe provided the screenshots?) and then GeneralE did his own version. |
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04/10/2006 12:46:34 PM · #17 |
I still say they're the same person.
It only makes sense. |
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04/10/2006 12:53:05 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by jamester:
Cool shot, where was it taken? |
Ithaca, NY, on the campus of Cornell University. |
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04/10/2006 01:19:24 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by Artyste:
I still say they're the same person.
It only makes sense. |
Yah, I think the General posted my versions by mistake. These are from the Lanscape Learning Thread. Both of the top images are my remakes, 2 different versions, from his original.
The ones underneath (the PS screenshots) are all his.
Robt.
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04/10/2006 01:21:23 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by Konador:
Originally posted by Artyste:
Something fishy going on here.. GeneralE is posting, but these shots are in Bear_Music's portfolio... |
Confused me too... |
Sorry, I copied from the wrong post in the other thread ... I didn't notice those were versions he did.
Here are the "genuine" before/after shots:   |
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04/15/2006 11:45:46 AM · #21 |
Before: ... After:
Processing:
1-Noise reduction
2-Levels for normal darken/highlight contrast
3-Curves for midtone contrast
4-Hue/Sat to increase master, red, blue and cyan saturation
5-Selective Color for red, blue, cyan adjustments
6-50% greyscale overlay layer for light dodge and burn and for light color painting with red and green
7-Levels to set final black point
8-Crop, resize, smart sharpen and save as .jpg
No specialized processing, just straightforward contrast and color adjustments.
I like the idea of posting before and after images and sharing the post processing used to achieve the final result. Would like to see more of that.
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04/16/2006 07:26:37 PM · #22 |
Before:  ....After: 
I only spotted out some lights in the dark part
Message edited by author 2006-04-16 19:40:42.
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04/16/2006 07:32:11 PM · #23 |
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04/16/2006 07:41:04 PM · #24 |
Originally posted by wheeledd:
Here are mine:
Original
Submitted
I did the post-processing in 2002 and I don't remember exactly what I did. All I did for the submission was to resize and resharpen the file from 2002. I can see that I had separate curves adjustment layers for the tunnel and the outside space.
The white circles in the original are due to rain drops on the lens. I was glad to find a tunnel to keep me dry!
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I actually like both of these equally. The both have a totally different feel. Great pic :)
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04/16/2006 08:01:07 PM · #25 |
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Ran through DxO since there were no roolz, rotated to level horizon, cropped to 3:2 aspect ratio and to eliminate distracting elements, cloned out the hazard triangle on the logs, graduated neutral density filter applied to darken sky, unsharp mask @50%. |
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