Lets play #26

[Ben Egbert]

Let’s play #26

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This week’s challenge is shadow recovery.

Here is a link to the image.

https://www.focalworld.com/index.php?resources/lets-play-26.43/

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

 

[Ben Egbert]

Here is my take on this image. I recovered shadows, cleaned up some trash and cropped.

 

[JimFox]

Good one Ben! I will get to playing with it later tonight or tomorrow.

 

[AlanLichty]

Interesting shot to play with. There was a somber mood (fitting for a graveyard) to the original I wanted to try to preserve so I was selective about shadow recovery and left the overall scene a bit on the dark side.

Like Ben I cleaned up a lot of the leftover flower offerings around the scene but left the original crop intact.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Thanks Alan for the entry, nice version.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Here is my take on this image. I recovered shadows, cleaned up some trash and cropped.

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I think you nailed it, Alan. I don't think I can do better than that.

 

[JimFox]

Interesting shot to play with. There was a somber mood (fitting for a graveyard) to the original I wanted to try to preserve so I was selective about shadow recovery and left the overall scene a bit on the dark side.

Like Ben I cleaned up a lot of the leftover flower offerings around the scene but left the original crop intact.

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A very good entry Alan. I think I will be processing mine in a similar vein. I think some darkness is good for a graveyard scene.

 

[Kurt Harrigan]

 

[Kurt Harrigan]

Wow, this was a tricky one. The highlights on that rear cross were tough. I used a Gaussian blur to tame some of the brighter areas and then used some selective sharpening to bring the focus into the foreground. I think if I would have used a crop similar to Ben's I might have had greater success.

 

[JimFox]

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Very good Kurt! I like your concept and execution. B&W is great with this scene.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Great job Kurt, I knew somebody would do B&W, it just cries out for it.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Tried a few different ways to tackle this. Settled on the B&W as well. It was a difficult image to work on, primarily because I couldn't get a feel for it at all.

In any case here it is.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice mood here Jameel.

 

[Amy Nelson]

Yep, I think B&W is the way to go, here's my version:

 

[JimFox]

If someone has a spare moon laying around I think this image is really crying for a moon..

 

[Ben Egbert]

Good one Amy.

 

[JimFox]

Okay, here is my take. All I really did was use the Dehaze adjustment in ACR. I did a full -100 Dehaze for the image. I then did a 2nd conversion at -70 Dehaze and then just layer masked in the front most cross to help it retain some detail. I wanted to go for more of a misty mood. The Sepia look was just the result of the Dehaze, I didn't adjust the color or add Sepia to it.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Hey Jim, that's a new use for de-haze I had not thought of. Learn something new all the time.

 

[JimFox]

Hey Jim, that's a new use for de-haze I had not thought of. Learn something new all the time.

I don't think I have ever used the Dehaze to actually Dehaze... it seems the few times that I do use it I end up adding Haze with it.