Let’s play #16

[Ben Egbert]

See the let’s play guidelines above

This weeks image is generously supplied by Jim

Show us what you would do with it.

Here is a link to the download.

https://www.focalworld.com/index.php?resources/jen-and-ryan.28/

The embedded image is a small jpg of the raw, but use the download dng file for rework.

 

[JimFox]

This is not your typical Landscape Let's Play.

Hopefully everyone will still Play with it. One thing for sure, everyone will want to do some cropping, I see at least 2 different cropping options in this.

 

[lionking]

OK, to make it clear i by no means a wedding or portrait photographer, so its just a playful thing:

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Cheers.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks for joining us Andrey, and a fine rendition here. I need to get one going.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Ok, here is my version.

 

[J. M. Livingston]

I'm partway through my edit and all I've got to say is that Andrey / LionKing has some amazing detail work in that rendition. It's going to be quite challenging to produce an image that rises to that level. But that's good, just means it's more challenging, more effort, and more practice.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I'm partway through my edit and all I've got to say is that Andrey / LionKing has some amazing detail work in that rendition. It's going to be quite challenging to produce an image that rises to that level. But that's good, just means it's more challenging, more effort, and more practice.

I did mine without looking at his and thought I had pushed the exposure to the limits. Now I need to go back and find new limits.

 

[JimFox]

I'm partway through my edit and all I've got to say is that Andrey / LionKing has some amazing detail work in that rendition. It's going to be quite challenging to produce an image that rises to that level. But that's good, just means it's more challenging, more effort, and more practice.

Hey John, also remember you can crop even more then Andrey did to help differentiate more.

 

[JimFox]

OK, to make it clear i by no means a wedding or portrait photographer, so its just a playful thing:

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Cheers.

A very nice edit Andrey. Maybe you need to start doing weddings!

 

[Kyle Jones]

Here's my attempt.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Good one Kyle. Now I know I have to start over.

 

[Amy Nelson]

Here's my version...

 

[JimFox]

Here's my version...

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Wow Amy! Loving this one with that selective coloring.

 

[J. M. Livingston]

Editing done, now it's time to select crop and color vs b&w. Gah! This image has so much potential it's just silly, sooo many good options!

 

[Ben Egbert]

Really nice Amy, I hesitate to redo mine as there are already so many good ones.

 

[JimFox]

Editing done, now it's time to select crop and color vs b&w. Gah! This image has so much potential it's just silly, sooo many good options!

Ha ha, glad you are having fun with this one John! I was hoping that this would be a nice change of pace for us.

 

[J. M. Livingston]

Here's what I came up with, B&W as well as color of 2 different crops. Sharing it all because it's been agonizing to chose between them (and I put a lot of time into the full-length portrait version) but my official entry will be.....

The first one, tightly cropped B&W.

 

[Ben Egbert]

wow you guys are killing it.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Ok, here is my second attempt. I have never pushed an image this far, I never go above 1 stop normally. I just did this to see what you guys were up to.

 

[JimFox]

Ok, here is my second attempt. I have never pushed an image this far, I never go above 1 stop normally. I just did this to see what you guys were up to.

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Way to go Ben! This is a Nikon D850 file, so 100% shadow recovery and 2 or 3 stops of exposure with 100% White recovery is just fine.