The Post-Processing Challenge #8

[Donald]

The closing date for entries into this thread is 13th December.

The purpose of the challenge is to provide all members with the same image and, with it, an opportunity to explore and develop their post-processing skills and to examine and learn from how they and others approach the task. Although there will be a vote, the idea is not to be competitive, but to engage in a learning process. So, discussions and exchanges of views as we go along, are encouraged.

Voting, Choosing the next image file and telling us How You Did It:-
When announced, voting (open to any member) will be by Private Message (PM) to Donald, over a period of two days or so. This will ask you simply to say which you think demonstrates best PP skills and artistic presentation. Automated voting may be introduced at a later stage.

The ‘winner’ of one challenge will be asked to provide an image for the next challenge, or delegate that ‘honour’ to a Mod. The ‘winner’ will also be invited to tell us what they did (so keep a note). Philip, winner of #7, doesn't have images available for the PP Challenge, so one of the Mods is asked to provide a file instead. On this occasion it's Dave (Humphries) who has provided it. And what is it?

The DNG file can be obtained here

A TIFF version can be obtained here

And a large JPEG can be obtained here

Have fun ... and good luck!

The culture and values of CiC as embraced by its members makes the need for over-formalisation of procedures & guidelines largely unnecessary. However, we cannot always know who is joining the forum and some formalisation is required, particularly to protect the work of the person who has offered the image for post-processing.

These procedures are:-

* You download the image, process it and then post it back up to this thread.
* Photographs should be posted in this thread before the closing date (don't leave it too late).
* No voting allowed for your own entry.
* Each entrant will be allowed one submission.
* All entrants must work on the file made available for download (at the bottom of this post). Any other image posted into the thread will be deleted.
* Entrants may use appropriately licensed images to assist in the creative process, but the original must remain the basis of the finished product and the entered image be a representation of that original.
* The image file made available for the challenge will remain the sole property of the person who made it available for the purpose, under a Creative Commons SA Licence. A full copy of the licence can be viewed HERE
* Any person downloading the image offered for editing in this challenge, whether they submit an entry in the challenge or not, is deemed to accept the terms of the licence and to be bound by it.
* A decision to pursue a claim against anyone breaching the terms of the licence shall be a matter solely for the copyright holder; i.e. the member who offered the image for download in this challenge. ‘Cambridge in Colour’ cannot be held responsible or liable for any breach of the Creative Commons SA Licence.

NB - The best way of dealing with this formality is to resolve that the only thing you will do with the image you downloaded is work on it for entry in this challenge and that you WILL NOT use it for any other purpose.

[Nikoniannats]

#1

That was fun!

[cliveanne]

#2

I'm enjoying this

[conkerwood]

#3



Makes you wonder how many calories are in a fly..... well maybe not. Lots of fun doing this. Really hard to do webs, would be happy for any suggestions about getting the web right.

Peter

[arith]

#4



wings is hard

Where the picture go

Cannot see my pic; can anybody see my pic?

[Ken Parnell]

#5


THERE IS FLY'S IN MY SALAD

[FrankMi]

#6

[Skyline]

#7

[jeffreye]

#8

An historic entomological take on a digger wasp.

[MARK HEAD]

#9

LOOKING FOR THAT SPARKLE IN THE INSECT EYE. CHEERS ALL. MARK
[hope this works!]

[Ati]

#10

[ScoutR]

#11


DSC_40557 by Wendy FS, on Flickr

Wendy

[Yooper]

#12

[dyngakryss]

#13

Canvas

[Image]

#14

[StephenOnline]

#15

[rappensuncle]

#16

[Donald]

I am delighted to announce that the winner of PP Challenge #8 is...........................

PETER
with

Congratulations to him.

I will be asking Peter to post a message up here telling us what he did.

I will also be inviting him to provide a file for use in PP Challenge #9.

Well done, too, to everyone else. Some pretty creative stuff in there.

[Skyline]

Nice one Peter. Good imagination

[conkerwood]

Hi all
Many thanks to those who voted. As I said in the original post it was lots of fun to do. All done in P.S.E. Fortunately I had a photo of a garden orb spider that I took a few months back which had similar tonings in the background to the one supplied. I flipped them both so that the light appeared to be coming from the same direction and fiddled with light and contrast to make them look as if they were taken under similar conditions. Layered the spider in with a few bits of web intact and then used a layer mask to merge them together. Easy stuff so far but the web was the problem. After lots of experimenting, using the original spider pic I brightened it all up so the web really stood out. Copied and pasted long slivers of web onto composite, layer mask to remove as much 'non web,' as possible then reduced the opacity of the overlay to around 15%. This merged the remnant web background into the composite background but because I had brightened up the web before hand it stayed well defined enough when all was flattened. Hope that makes sense. If anyone could come up with a better less fiddly way I would be delighted to hear.

Again thanks for the votes, looking forward to next processing challenge.

Peter