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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / DSLR Cameras / August 2005raw challenge v.3.o
We have just started a new edition of our RAW challenge, just for fun. What is the game about? Download the RAW file, postprocess it, retouch it, boil it, add salt and pepper and finally show us what you have done with it. Just for the fun of it. You will find detailed instructions here: http://www.foto-ceif.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=148&start=0&postdays=0&postorder =asc&highlight= See you there! <http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/raw-challenge> > We have just started a new edition of our RAW challenge, just for fun. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > See you there!  SignaturePaul Furman http://www.edgehill.net Triteleia Natives http://www.triteleia.com (415) 722-6037 So where's the description of the techniques you used?! (I'm not trying to be rude, it's just that the description of techniques, etc, will be the most beneficial to those of us that can learn from this competition!) Thanks, > <http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/raw-challenge> > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > http://www.triteleia.com > (415) 722-6037 > So where's the description of the techniques you used?! (I'm not > trying to be rude, it's just that the description of techniques, etc, > will be the most beneficial to those of us that can learn from this > competition!) Heh, sorry.. Using PS CS I slid the shadows all the way down & the exposure way up 2.5 or something then processed again at zero shadow but normal exposure and pasted that below then erased out the blown sky from the first version with a large soft edged eraser. You can see the points of the buildings are dark where I erased over them. I think I turned down the saturation a bit also. That was a really extreme image, not easy. > Thanks, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >>http://www.triteleia.com >>(415) 722-6037 SignaturePaul Furman http://www.edgehill.net Triteleia Natives http://www.triteleia.com (415) 722-6037 Thanks Paul! Brian >> So where's the description of the techniques you used?! (I'm not >> trying to be rude, it's just that the description of techniques, etc, >> will be the most beneficial to those of us that can learn from this >> competition!) > > Heh, sorry.. Using PS CS I slid the shadows all the way down & the Any ideas as to why my Photoshop CS did not open this with the raw converter? I use PS CS it for all my Canon RAW with no such trouble. But that 5.0MB RAW3.TIF file in PS CA just opens as a small thumbnail. Thanks >>> So where's the description of the techniques you used?! (I'm not >>> trying to be rude, it's just that the description of techniques, [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > But that 5.0MB RAW3.TIF file in PS CA just opens as a small > thumbnail. I right-clicked on the thumbnail and selected something that resulted in a big ol' file on my disk. SignatureFrank ess >>> So where's the description of the techniques you used?! (I'm not >>> trying to be rude, it's just that the description of techniques, etc, [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >But that 5.0MB RAW3.TIF file in PS CA just opens as a small thumbnail. Have you spoken to Adobe support about this? That would appear to be the place to start. ********************************************************** "A combat photographer should be able to make you see the color of blood in black and white" David Douglas Duncan Speaking on why in Vietnam he worked only in black and white http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/ddd/ > >> So where's the description of the techniques you used?! (I'm not > >> trying to be rude, it's just that the description of techniques, etc, [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Any ideas as to why my Photoshop CS did not open this with the raw > converter? The extention is ".tif", just remove that and the file will open correctly. Jean > I use PS CS it for all my Canon RAW with no such trouble. > > But that 5.0MB RAW3.TIF file in PS CA just opens as a small thumbnail. > > Thanks >Any ideas as to why my Photoshop CS did not open this with the raw >converter? Because it is misnamed. Get rid of the ".tif" at the end, so that PS knows it's a ".nef". Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> John P Sheehy <JPS@no.komm> ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< >>Any ideas as to why my Photoshop CS did not open this with the raw >>converter? > > Because it is misnamed. Get rid of the ".tif" at the end, so that PS > knows it's a ".nef". Actually I tried that but my ACR for CS must be old. It opened fine with the box version of Elements 3.0. Oh, I should also say that I like the results!! > <http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/raw-challenge> > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> >> See you there! http://www.fototime.com/544F33F7B2D22DD/orig.jpg Saved the original to PSD re-opened it as NEF cranked up the exposure and a little saturation saved as a PSD selected all, copied, pasted into the first PSD on the lightened layer, Magic Lassooed the sky, deleted it flattened image levels, curves, saturation to taste Gaussian blur 50%, 1.1, 4 stair-step to size Save For Web at a quality to give file size ~=260K (~=74) I did one I liked better (changes in process after "flatten") but I lost it in the save process ... -- Frank ess > > <http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/raw-challenge> > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >> > >> You will find detailed instructions here: http://www.foto-ceif.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=148&start=0&postdays=0&posto rder=asc&highlight= > >> See you there! > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > I did one I liked better (changes in process after > "flatten") but I lost it in the save process ... I like the sky better in Frank's but the rest I like better in Paul's. Greg > <http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/raw-challenge> > > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > >> > > >> You will find detailed instructions here: http://www.foto-ceif.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=148&start=0&postdays=0&posto > rder=asc&highlight= > > >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Greg Frank's sky is very nice, I tried to putz around with Raw Shooter Essentials but I don't have too much experience with RAW files. The results were about the same as the two presented, except for the sky but I found so much noise in the picture I stopped trying. Bravo to the experts. Jean >We have just started a new edition of our RAW challenge, just for fun. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >See you there! Pep, Sounds like fun, BUT, with M$ IE 6.0, I could not get the file to view/open. I checked that NEF's would view, preview, and open in PS CS2, with latest Adobe RC, but all I got was an "un-oh cannot view." Any other URLs for the file? Hunt >We have just started a new edition of our RAW challenge, just for fun. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Hi Guys, I only spent about 5 minutes on this using the Gimp under Linux. http://www/fdj.org.uk/photos Andy. >> We have just started a new edition of our RAW challenge, just for fun. >> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > http://www/fdj.org.uk/photos Your link redirects to a blank page: <http://www.browsercast.com/custom/branded-wwwcom/affiliatereporting/searchboxes/ searchstyle_www.html?action=search&afID=5589&keywords=%20fdj.org.uk%20photos> SignaturePaul Furman http://www.edgehill.net Triteleia Natives http://www.triteleia.com (415) 722-6037 > > Hi Guys, > > I only spent about 5 minutes on this using the Gimp under Linux. > > > > http://www/fdj.org.uk/photos > > Your link redirects to a blank page: not if you correct the obvious typo. and your browser noticed that 'www' by itself was not a hostname and subsequently did some sort of search on the whole string - that was not a redirect. > <http://www.browsercast.com/custom/branded-wwwcom/affiliatereporting/searchbox > es/searchstyle_www.html?action=search&afID=5589&keywords=%20fdj.org.uk%20photos> > > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >>es/searchstyle_www.html?action=search&afID=5589&keywords=%20fdj.org.uk%20photos> >> Sorry folks, cant type... www.fdj.org.uk/photos A Here's mine...all the info is there. Let me know what you think. I didn't do as good a job as I thought when I looked at the final...but oh well. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3619684 > >>>Hi Guys, > >>>I only spent about 5 minutes on this using the Gimp under Linux. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > A > Here's mine...all the info is there. Let me know what you think. I > didn't do as good a job as I thought when I looked at the final...but > oh well. > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3619684 Well I like this one. I resized them to match to compare and this one has a lot more punch and balance. I don't see any explanation of your methods. I found the saturated yellows strange & desaturated those out but maybe a WB tweak could improve the situation. Here's all of them, I'm linking to my second cooled down WB attempt: <http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=Misc/photography/raw-challenge&PG=1&PIC=1> For this I just raw converted once & applied several curves, erasing out with a broad brush in the sky, not trying to get anywhere close to the building edges. >>>>>Hi Guys, >>>>>I only spent about 5 minutes on this using the Gimp under Linux. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> >>A SignaturePaul Furman http://www.edgehill.net Triteleia Natives http://www.triteleia.com (415) 722-6037 The description of the process is under the details link just below the picture - sorry, I thought it showed up directly on the link :) Thanks for posting them all together!! After seeing them all together, mine may be a bit too saturated... I think this is really a great exercise that will probably help a lot of people - we should do more! Brian I should also say that there's always a fine line when you're trying to hold enought detail in the sky without making it look "fake" in relation to what's underneath - and I don't know if I went to far :) I think maybe the foreground is a little too "punchy" in relation to the sky - they look differently separately than they do all together. In my [limited] experience, this is one of the most difficult parts of blending exposures! Brian I should also say that there's always a fine line when you're trying to hold enough detail in the sky without making it look "fake" in relation to what's underneath - and I don't know if I went to far :) I think maybe the foreground is a little too "punchy" in relation to the sky - they look differently separately than they do all together. In my [limited] experience, this is one of the most difficult parts of blending exposures! Brian We would love to have your images in the RAW v3.0 gallery. You don't need to register to upload your pics, if you don't want to. (but we would be really happy if you join our little comunity) You can see what other people have done with that RAW file here: http://foto-ceif.com/cpg/thumbnails.php?album=45 Come on! We want to see your fantastic creations! I added a more recent attempt. http://foto-ceif.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=45&pos=9 Brian > I added a more recent attempt. > > http://foto-ceif.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=45&pos=9 > > Brian I don't know. In this one it looks like the buildings are lit from a large lightsource way to the left. It looks unnatural. Greg Hmn...good point. I said earlier that this would be the most difficult part!! :) Brian > > I added a more recent attempt. > > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Greg |
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