Edit of the Week - 7-20-11 - How would you edit this one?

[Izzy]

Edit of the week:

This picture shows lots of potential provided by DPS’s kcoppock. Edit this photo in any way that you normally would and post it back here. This whole exercise is to see how others would edit the same photo.



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[TNH]

Here's my try at it:


I turned up the Exposure and Sharpness just a bit, then made the image Sepia, then added the boy.
Let me know what you think.

[IABoomer]

I've been playing with this HDR-like effect in LR by jamming up the blacks and fill lighting along with clarity. Once I clicked the B&W conversion to start with, I knew it wasn't going back to color for me.



There were a couple tweaks made in the tone curve, but those settings got the image 95% of the way there.

[docxnoel]

wohooooo, here's what I got

I came up with this by;

LR Editing
Crop and straighten the image, with the center post as referrence.
Adjust the WB to warmer tones to have a feeling that this was shot in an early morning
Underexpose a little
adjust clarity to 100 percent
select the sky to make underexposure
add soft vignette.

after editing in LR, I make some adjustment in CS5

I push the red colors
Dodge the green plant above
Blur some areas
Add a lens flare
Add gausian blur about 3 percent
And of course, I add my favorite black border

Hope you like it guys

[kcoppock]

Nice work, all. I'm digging the tone of Noel's edit. So, any problem with me posting my own edit, or does that cause some sort of paradox?



Whoops, forgot to add info on processing. 99% adjustment layers (from bottom to top):

Levels adjustment: 0, 1, 160, masked for the highlights
Brightness/Contrast: +24, +5, masked for the buildings
Brightness/Contrast: -84, +40, masked for the sky
Vibrance: +59, no mask
Black and White: -26, +140, +219, -19, +2, +67, no mask, tinted with FFFDF5
Brightness/Contrast: 0, +45, no mask

Finally, burned the highlights on the clouds just a bit, then resized with Bicubic Sharper.

[Tito87]

Here's mine.[IMG][/IMG]

[Izzy]

Thanks to everyone for posting their edits. I await more

It is very interesting to see how there is many ways to edit this. Boomer I was looking at BW myself.

[Twinpanther]

Here's mine:


Opened in Camera Raw
Played with colors in the HSL/Grayscale tab until I liked the look.
Separate layer for sky and did the same.
Masked new sky over old.
Straightened and cropped but need to learn how to "straighten" out the building.

I love this thread btw. Hope to learn a lot from other folks doing this.

[Tito87]

[QUOTE=Twinpanther;
Straightened and cropped but need to learn how to "straighten" out the building.[/QUOTE]

Use the Lens Correction Filter.

[Twinpanther]

Originally Posted by Tito87

Use the Lens Correction Filter.

Thanks Tito, I did try that. Only problem was as it corrected the building I lost detail at the same time. Just didn't look right to me.