PP Challenge #23

[Donald]

I owe everyone an apology. I forgot to start up this challenge. So, better late than never.

The closing date for entries into this thread is 9th November 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 Philip (MrB) winner of PP Challenge 22 .

And the image?

You can download:
The RAW (DNG) file (22Mb) here
A TIF version (65Mb) here
And a JPG (3Mb) version is here

NB - This is the first time I've used Google Drive for sharing. So, if it doesn't work, let me know.


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!

[ga6742]

Entry #1

[ajohnw]

Entry #2

[redsea]

Entry #3

[sleith]

Entry #4

[Pinecone]

Entry #5

The canal 'Duke' at work

[Rita]

Entry #6

[Krellion]

Entry #7

[ajohnw]

Entry #8

[zuzanas]

Entry #9



yes I have discovered artificial light in PP last time and since then ..

[Laszlo T]

Entry #10

[conkerwood]

Entry #11



Hope you like it.

Peter

[meenkshy]

Entry #12

[Donald]

With great apologies for the delay in getting this competition closed, voting is now open.

Everyone is now invited to send me a PM (Private Message) voting for the ENTRY NUMBER, not the Post Number, for the entry that you think has demonstrated the most skilful and creative post-processing skills, given the picture appearing in Post #1 of this thread.

Entrants are not allowed to vote for their own entry.

The winner will be announced in a few days time from the posting of this message. They will then be invited to talk us through what they did to create the image. They will also be invited to submit the file that will be used in the next PP Challenge.

So, I'm waiting for your vote.

[Donald]

VOTING OVER: THE RESULT

The winner of this challenge is .............

Rita

That was only one point ahead of Peter (conkerwood) with Entry Number 11 and a couple of points behind that was Zuzana with #9.

Well done everyone.

Rita now gets the chance to:

1. Put up a post explainign to us how she did it and,
2. Provide me with a RAW file for tne next challenge, which will start up shortly.

[Dave Humphries]

Congrats Rita,

... and Peter and Zuzana

Well done,

[Rita]

Congrats Peter and Zuzana.

This was certainly unexpected on my part as I am just learning to edit. Don't know if there is a certain order I should have done these steps in or not but this is what I did using Elements 11:

1. Cloned out the sidewalk and extended the brickwork.

2. Adjusted brightness and contrast

3. Enhanced the colours.

4. Converted to B&W.....didn't like the way this looked, need to practice this more.

5. Added the reflection

6. Adjusted intensity

7. Added a gradient from the bottom of the original picture to the bottom of the reflection

8. Converted to sepia

9. The end

[Rita]

Thanks Dave.

[Wendy Stanford]

congratulations Rita, very well done, the reflection looks great

[Rita]

Thank you Wendy.