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01/31/2007 12:36:59 PM · #226 |
Here is my blue ribbon shot...
Before and after:
 
This was my second entry and I remember being very worried that people would think I "cheated" because of the original.
Funny thing about this picture... it actually came in third, but the top two shots were DQ'd.
Message edited by author 2007-01-31 12:41:15.
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02/08/2007 06:10:13 PM · #227 |
 
Simple playing around with the levels, curves, sat boost and a little dodge/burn and sharpen for this one. Pretty simple edits - almost out of the camera ;-)
Message edited by author 2007-02-08 18:11:42.
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02/08/2007 06:17:05 PM · #228 |
Originally posted by toddhead:
Here is my blue ribbon shot...
Before and after:
This was my second entry and I remember being very worried that people would think I "cheated" because of the original.
Funny thing about this picture... it actually came in third, but the top two shots were DQ'd. |
Now that's cool ;)
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02/08/2007 06:30:47 PM · #229 |
 
This is full original, just rotated and resized.
I cropped, cloned out the date/time stamp (which I turned off after I got back and realized it had been on...I hate that thing.) Cloned out the vague images in the background. Adjusted levels and added a diffuse glow layer. I also skewed the left side of the hill just a bit "up" to even out the horizon. |
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02/21/2007 02:05:05 PM · #230 |
Before and After
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02/24/2007 04:32:07 AM · #231 |
My orginal: 
Ribbon Winning:  |
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02/24/2007 05:41:02 AM · #232 |
wow, things have changed.
this shot placed 4th in the Ansel Adams challenge - but I was a noob at editing and didn't have the original for validation...
I posted the unedited version and linked it from my comments in my entry, and finally took it off the site because I was getting so many hate PMs - it lasted for over a week!
My original was shot daylight, and there's a fair amount of D&B (in case that isn't obvious!) ;-)
Now here's a whole thread dedicated to that process of processing - DPC has changed...
Message edited by author 2007-02-24 05:41:49.
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02/24/2007 06:15:42 AM · #233 |
From Pet Portrait II
3rd place with this
and original was this
Shot in raw > Unsharp mask, channel mixer to b/w and some curves. Crop
Message edited by author 2007-02-24 06:16:26.
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02/24/2007 08:13:06 AM · #234 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by toddhead:
Here is my blue ribbon shot...
Before and after:
This was my second entry and I remember being very worried that people would think I "cheated" because of the original.
Funny thing about this picture... it actually came in third, but the top two shots were DQ'd. |
Now that's cool ;) |
Have to agree. I have loked at that shot 4 or 5 times in the past and never realized it was a figure. I guess I just thought you had used alot of neat image:) |
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02/24/2007 10:03:26 AM · #235 |
Super execution of an excellent idea! ... Bravo!
O.K. ... Well none of my "highest scorers" have really scored very high yet and the top three have been basic and minimal editing so did not change much ... but THIS one changed the most ...
I could not find the original quickly but here is a slightly cropped version of the original that was even further cropped for my entry. The door was mostly closed to stop the light that lit my hands from getting on the deeper white door, which was lit from the floor bottom right by a halogen desk lamp ...
This was my entry ...
I hope that one or more of my current 6 active entries surpass this one in scoring, but I guess we will see ...
Message edited by author 2007-02-24 10:23:13.
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02/27/2007 07:48:59 AM · #236 |
| Great thread! So much to learn here. |
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03/05/2007 01:50:57 PM · #237 |
Not a ribbon shot but my 4th highest. A couple of commenters asked if the sky was really like that so here's the before and after...
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03/19/2007 05:46:46 PM · #238 |
before
ribbon
Lightsetting: one flash with umbrella left behind me, one flash on the right behind me (I don't have enough space to let it work out immediately)
Crop (obvious ;))
Used dodge for the background, burn for the tally marks.
Used a layermask (photo filter) for coloring me up a bit.
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03/19/2007 06:07:43 PM · #239 |
Original:
Entry:
 scored 6.6220, 8/169, 96%
In PSP:
-sharpen
-clarify 3 times at strength 5
-noise ninja
-unsharp mask
-contrast
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03/20/2007 01:03:19 AM · #240 |
My Ice entry, 6.3776 22/268 92%
Original:
Entry:
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03/20/2007 04:17:57 PM · #241 |
Why not. I'm pretty stoked about my highest placement -- ever... =D
6.4630, 11/169, 94%
Original:
Entry:
in PS7:
-Rotate
-Crop
-Levels (Dragged right/left in 'til clipping occurred
-Convert to b/w with Chanel Mixer
-USM (high,low-ish,0)
-Slight Burn on pile of salt (oh, yeah... used salt, not sand)
-Resize for web
-USM again
-Save for web
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04/08/2007 12:36:23 AM · #242 |
3rd place in the Free Study :)
Before and After:
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04/09/2007 12:43:11 AM · #243 |
20th in Color Portrait
 
14th in Hate:
 
Message edited by author 2007-04-09 00:44:44.
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04/09/2007 01:07:01 AM · #244 |
| I have to say that the quaility of PP is excellent and one of my goals to to achieve similar results in the years to come. However, PP has become an art form in itself. You can take a very average photo and create a masterpiece. I know that the idea of the shot has to be there (composition etc) and that is the photographer in you. However, some of these photos would be very average if it wasn't for the PP. I always say to people that 1/2 of being a photographer is taking the photo, the other 1/2 is PP. I would however like to more challenges in the minimal editing so that the real photographer is seen. I am a novice in PP by comparison so now feel overwhelmed at seeing the before and afters. I dont feel that I have a hope of being in the running for a long time. Most of my shots have very little PP for 2 reasons, I am not very good at it and I am paranoid that I might do something to be disqualified. |
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04/09/2007 01:12:24 AM · #245 |
Originally posted by Monique64:
PP has become an art form in itself. You can take a very average photo and create a masterpiece. |
I agree with you 100% that part of it is shooting and part is processing. And I've slowly expanded my processing to push the edges of legal in various editing rules. I also support more minimal challenges as a variation, but not as a replacement.
But let's keep this thread for just original/processed and discuss those aspects elsewhere, like in this thread:
//www.dpchallenge.com/forum.php?action=read&FORUM_THREAD_ID=574086
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04/09/2007 01:16:51 AM · #246 |
The only one where I have the original available at this time:
Original vs Edit
 
Message edited by author 2007-04-09 01:17:24.
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04/09/2007 08:43:20 AM · #247 |
to keep this thread up to date
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all the edits can be seen in the final shot details
why the heavy crop??
well I could have taken this at about 50mm and had the same items in the shot but the photo would have been foreshortened a lot so that the opera house would have looked a lot closer to the boat than it shows at the 12 mm I took the shot at
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04/11/2007 01:20:34 AM · #248 |
Thanks for the education! :)
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04/11/2007 01:41:28 AM · #249 |
1st in Fitness:
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04/11/2007 04:35:09 AM · #250 |
Originally posted by KarenNfld:
Original:
Entry:
scored 6.6220, 8/169, 96%
In PSP:
-sharpen
-clarify 3 times at strength 5
-noise ninja
-unsharp mask
-contrast |
Clarify ? How do I do this, and exactly what is acheived with it? Sorry if its a dumb question. |
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