Firstly, a big thanks to Stephanie @skjgraphics for hosting the previous challenge and an equally big thanks to all those who participated and voted.
RAWCOMP27 starts today: Here's the raw image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hccen0tkem3lh83/IMG_5353.CR2?dl=0
I'll shamelessly copy from Stephanie's post :)
For those of you who are new to RAWCOMP, the concept is pretty simple. The last winner becomes the host and posts a link to a RAW photo in dng format. Contestants download the image and edit using RAW editor only. The resulting file is then saved as a jpeg, submitted and tagged RAWCOMP26. The host then presents a selection for voting.
The rules are:
"All editing must be done with a RAW processor , using no other software or plugins" - so either Lightroom, Adobe Camera RAW, the RAW processing software that came with your camera, but nothing else that does more than RAW processing - no NIK plugins, no compositions, no other editing other than RAW processing. This differentiates it from WWYD, where any editing goes. Cropping the photo is allowed but must be done within the RAW processor."
Here is the raw image for your reference:
The challenge starts today and ends on September 20th.
Looking forward to your edits! Enjoy!
Not much really "wrong" with the initial image at all, a bit of noise but the tones and gamut are all very sound, so really any "raw" edit is going to be a bit of a gimmick, rather than what a raw edit should typically entail, tone and color correction and detail recovery. Much more I'd do with the power of PS and blending modes in conjunction with sharpening, and the ability to operate on the color channels separately especially for noise mitigation. This "tone inversion" gimmick will have to do; the colors are as close to original as I can make them without operating in Lab color mode in Photoshop.
I cropped in LR then added some noise and some color enhancements. Was trying to make it look like a painting somewhat while keeping the integrity of the original photo.
Using elements 11 raw uploader
I cropped the photo then played about with the various settings to make it look as if it had been taken at dusk with a flash.
I followed the lead from Stephanie and went for a closer crop, to bring out the orange in the boat, but with more "real photo" clarity and a warmer, sunnier color cast.
@frankhymus I know what you're saying, Frank. I was debating between this one and another image that looked terribly underexposed in raw but had a lot of grainy detail within it. Anyway, I like your tone inversion effect! :)
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I cropped the photo then played about with the various settings to make it look as if it had been taken at dusk with a flash.