Lightroom Playground Week 8

[Edmund]

The purpose of this weekly challenge is to encourage creative experimentation with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. All Lightroom users are welcome to join in and for those who don't have Lightroom but wish to play, here (http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/) is the link to the 30-day trial version.

Please make any adjustments you choose to the following image and post your results in this thread. Share how you processed the image and provide information on any develop presets used. All modifications on the image must be made in Lightroom with the exception of sharpening, noise reduction, and resizing. Matt Kloskowski's Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips (http://www.lightroomkillertips.com/) is a great source for Lightroom Develop presets.

Here is a .jpg file:

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1Uixi6glh1UaXTHNEKb2ufGH33Q30_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1Uixi6glh1UaXTHNEKb2ufGH33Q30)



Please post comments and questions in the http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?p=357968#post357968 thread.

I posted this image because it needs so much work to possibly make it a keeper. If you find all of it's faults who knows it may work out. I figured we would give Lightroom a good workout. Hope you enjoy the image! I don't know if I set up the link correctly but the large file is at pixentral.

EDDIE

[robpendragon]

I had a lot of trouble with this one & I'm still not entirely happy with my final outcome, but heck...I love a challenge. I think I spent the same amount of time in PSE5 as I did in LR:rolleyes:
http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1opMtaquvp4pAcS7FzVBpwxY59CXzZ0_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1opMtaquvp4pAcS7FzVBpwxY59CXzZ0)

[rhynetc]

Eddie,

Cannot see the jpg file.

Tom

[Chuck S.]

I think the problems encountered by pixentral this week have messed up all the links to photos posted there.

[GaryK]

hmmm

Still having Pixentral troubles. Hopefully he can get things going without too many image losses.:(

[GaryK]

yipee it's back up.:D

Thanks for the shot Eddie.

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1JrUsnu5OrAuCIIiCkZTPHayXKopFb1_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1JrUsnu5OrAuCIIiCkZTPHayXKopFb1)

[Chuck S.]

A little moonlight on this one, thanks to Matt's Midnight Effect...

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1IOUaj0UGnaGhYF3gYER72FxOqRCFA1_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1IOUaj0UGnaGhYF3gYER72FxOqRCFA1)

[Edmund]

Hi everyone , I figured it's about time that I submitted my attempt to salvage this shot.

All work was done in Lightroom including cropping, and cloning/healing the dust spots in the sky. This happened when I scanned the original film slide (Velvia ASA 50) into my PC.

First I cropped the image to get rid of unnessary sky and water on the left side then I raised the crop to get rid of some of the extra data in the foreground. This I believe set my anchor point on the right to draw my eyes inward to the water, horizon and clouds. It was not too noticable but the original horizon line was a littlle tilted so I used Lightrooms straighten tool for that. Next I played around with all the adjustments and did not really care for anything I could do in Color. So I increased contrast and saturation and then to Greyscale. I tweaked all the settings starting from the top and worked my way down till I was satisfied with what I had. I even sharpened a bit in Lightroom. Open up the file in PSE-4 and added a frame and resized for the web.

I then noticed the edge fringing on that large rock formation on the right. It starts out after those two trees on top right and goes down to the water line. It is not there in Lightroom (where I sharpened image) any ideas where it comes from or what caused it.
Any way thank you for letting me submitt this Lightroom Playground Image for this week
Eddie
http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1r645O1Wr7MjnoA589mYsyutJvLYY_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1r645O1Wr7MjnoA589mYsyutJvLYY)

[bayhli]

Wow great sky, great foreground - beautiful, hated to crop any of it. Sorry Eddie, I could not do it justice...

In the end it was getting late and I was getting nowhere so I went with a preset. Like what it did to the water but not the sky and of course there are no details in the dark areas. I like the extreme contrast and the blue reflections but like most presets there is the pronounced "sameness" that I don't enjoy (water/sky colour and tones).

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/12OOdT93zuR0K73Q6hX8FGk9XM6Rb1_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=12OOdT93zuR0K73Q6hX8FGk9XM6Rb1)