Let’s play #23

[Ben Egbert]

See the let’s play guidelines above

This week’s image is one from Darcy.

Here is a link to the image.

https://www.focalworld.com/index.php?resources/lets-play-23.39/

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

 

[J. M. Livingston]

Overall a pretty nice image to work with, took a bit of thinking on how to (hopefully) differentiate my edit from others.

 

[Ben Egbert]

It is a very nice image and your rendering is great.

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

Overall a pretty nice image to work with, took a bit of thinking on how to (hopefully) differentiate my edit from others.

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I like how you brought the light to just the cactus & the two mountains.

 

[Kyle Jones]

Here's mine...

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

Here's mine...
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You put some warmth in this Kyle, that I like . How did you guys get the red in the mountains to show up so much? I did luminance & sat sliders for the red but mine didn't come out this red & I am loving it.

 

[Kyle Jones]

You put some warmth in this Kyle, that I like . How did you guys get the red in the mountains to show up so much? I did luminance & sat sliders for the red but mine didn't come out this red & I am loving it.

I got that by selecting the light tones and then creating an s-curve that darkened them and added contrast. I then painted that effect just into the mountains.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Very nice Kyle. This is going to be tough.

 

[AlanLichty]

I'll toss a variant into the ring here:

 

[Ben Egbert]

Here is mine.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I'll toss a variant into the ring here:

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Nice Alan, we must have posted about the same time.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice Alan, we must have posted about the same time.

Sure looks like it

 

[J. M. Livingston]

I like how you brought the light to just the cactus & the two mountains.

Thank you. I used the lasso tool to select the two mountains and then did a curves adjustment to lighten just that area (feathered the selection at about 55 pixels). Duplicated the curves layer and mask, inverted the mask, then brought the curve down to darken the surround areas o the mountains. Learned this method from a guy named Bob Killen (National Parks Photography Expeditions) who called the technique "relighting the scene". Darkened the area around the Yucca with a radial filter vignette then erased the top of the vignette to keep the upper corners from darkening the sky.

Did a bunch of other stuff to it too i.e. contrast curves, a luminosity mask, and gently layered in some Nik filters as well (masked and light opacity).

Here's my full PS layer stack.

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

I'll toss a variant into the ring here:

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Yours looks really natural .

Here is mine.

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Yours looks really natural too Ben

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

Thank you. I used the lasso tool to select the two mountains and then did a curves adjustment to lighten just that area (feathered the selection at about 55 pixels). Duplicated the curves layer and mask, inverted the mask, then brought the curve down to darken the surround areas o the mountains. Learned this method from a guy named Bob Killen (National Parks Photography Expeditions) who called the technique "relighting the scene". Darkened the area around the Yucca with a radial filter vignette then erased the top of the vignette to keep the upper corners from darkening the sky.

Did a bunch of other stuff to it too i.e. contrast curves, a luminosity mask, and gently layered in some Nik filters as well (masked and light opacity).

Here's my full PS layer stack.

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Wow that's quite a stack but it seems to be worth the work .

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Here is my entry - went with a pano crop on it.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice Jameel.

 

[Amy Nelson]

My entry in B&W:

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice Amy.