Results - September 2012 Monthly Competition

[Colin Southern]

Hi Folks,

The votes have (finally) been processed, and we have our winners ...

In first place - with 51 points we have Paul with:




In 2nd place - with 39 points we have Wayne with:




And in third place - on 21 points we have a tie between Serge with:



and Pat with:



Congratulations to our winners - new comp starting shortly

[dje]

Congratulations to Paul, Wayne, Serge and Pat. All very different images but all very good.

Dave

[jeeperman]

Thank you! To all that voted and participated in any way. Wayne, Serge and Pat....all fantastic images. Love the light Wayne. Serge, that sky rocks and Pat the light and intensity is very nice.

[Bobobird]

Congrats Paul, Wayne, Serge and Pat. Very well done and well deserved.

[WJT]

Great wok Paul, Serge and Pat. I love the variety of this challenge and happy to be amongst them. Thanks to all who participated and thanks Colin for moderating.

[Ollokot]

Congrats to Paul, Wayne and Serge, as for myself I initially got a shock, which turned into a great thrill when I saw my image among yours.
A Thousand thanks to all at CiC, and a thousand and one to the moderators who do such a wonderful job.
Take Care and Best Wishes Pat.

[Boatman]

Pat:

Your image, 'The Smoker', got my vote. Can you share with us what you did for sharpening to present this in the forum? To me it looks especially sharp for an image that has been uploaded for diaplay via TinyPics. I'm not able to get that level of clarity on any of my small format web image.

Homer Shannon

[Ollokot]

Hi Homer,
Thank you very much I'm glad you liked the image, it is in fact a self portrait.
As for sharpening the first thing I do when an image comes out of the ACR is apply a capture sharpen of 300% and a radius of 0.3, I never use the Threshold slider. Then during pp if I need some selective sharpening on for instance eye's or something I want to be that bit prominent in an image I apply an Unsharp Mask of 100% and a radius of 0.8, sometimes I may vary this a bit. For output to CiC I first downsize to 700 pixels on the long side and then apply an Unsharp Mask of 80% and a radius of 0.6. Then upload through Tinypics.
Hope this helps and if I can help in any way please don't hesitate to ask.
Best Wishes, Pat

[Boatman]

Pat:

I tried this and posted the results in the Image Post-Processing and Printing section. Thank you for your response.

Homer