PP Challenge #18

[Donald]

Right, here we go again - PP Challenge #18 .

The closing date for entries into this thread is 28 February 2013.

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, although it would be helpful to avoid the 'Wow', 'I love it' type posts if we can.

The image file:
The file for this challenge has been provided by me. Peter (conkerwood), winner of PP Challenge #17, has been battling with weather conditions that have played havoc with power systems and communications. So, he's asked me to use one of my images

And the image?

You can download:
The RAW file (14Mb) here
A TIF version (58Mb) here
And a JPG (6Mb) version is here

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. 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 finshed 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.

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).

Have fun ... and good luck!

[Ken Curtis]

01

OK, here is my entry. FWIW, this one took a lot of work to get to this stage.

[kespada51]

02

Wow, this was fun! Thanks!

[Trina]

03

Here is my shot at it.... Thanks for the challenge...

[yobenny]

04

[mpalanteros]

05

This is my first try

[arslanturegun]

06

My try

[BCrose]

07

[GVincent]

08

Here is my effort , wanted to show the boat coming into daylight , returning from a night on the great ocean.

[splashy]

09


I like it sunnier

[KCBrecks]

10

I thought that as the ship was Passing Edinburgh it had to be going somewhere else, so what better than -

Arriving in the Humber

This involved extracting the ship from the original file, then adding it into the Humber background with the Pilot Boat providing the labelling of the location. After that I thought there needed to be a little more shipping so added in the Tor Line container ship on the horizon. The left bank is Immingham and you can just make out the Humber bridge in the background. My background was taken from beside the RNLI and Pilot station on Spurn Point. The Tor Line ship was in a shot taken on the seaward side of Spurn Point on the same morning.

(This view should never happen as the two additional ships are heading for a shallow lagoon!!)

Thanks have to go to Scott Kelby for the excellent instructions in his books.

[jordand]

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Hi all,
Sometimes less is more, so I decided to subtract this time.
In the process I found the mast could be left where it was, free transforming it to look more as a tower. The flag is actually the transformed sign from the side of the ship.
With the ship gone I cloned some of the buildings to fill the gaps.
I worked with separate layers for the sky, the close and far mountains, the shoreline and the sea, blending mostly in normal and luminosity modes.
Not very difficult but time consuming.
PS For those of you, who’ll notice the hot air trail from the chimney in the left corner – I have left it on purpose ;-)

[tienduong]

12

Hi all!
I have converted the photo to watercolors painting.

[csayce]

13

This is my first attempt at any thing like this I hope I post this right :/

Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3

RAW Post Correction
Temp 5491
tint 0
threshold 14

brightness 0.1
saturation 20
shadow 35

Digital Camera Noise Removal

Noise Correction

Link Detail Sizes
72.3

Correction Blend 52.5
Sharpening 25.7

Colour Balance

Temp 4345
Tint 6

Enhance Colour Balance

Temp 6034
Tint 0

Film & Filters

Film Looks Vibrant foliage filter

Creative filters
R 0
G 151
B 176
Density 10

Sunburst

colour
R 247
G 247
B 201

Brightness 66
Horizontal 27
Vertical 5

Automatic Edge Enhance.

[redsea]

Entering the Port of Eilat

[wmoore]

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[IMG][/IMG]

[bdomansky]

16

My first post in CiC.

[Cristiano]

17

My first post in CiC... Im from Brazil

[Jeff S]

18

[albertoh]

19

Thank you for letting me participate here. I resized the photo down to 1000 px wide.