June Photo Processing Contest

[drew]

This month's winner will receive:

Either their choice of a copy of SilverFast DC Pro Studio (retail $399) or a copy of SilverFast Ai scanning software (limit $400) for the scanner of their choice. Learn more about these products here: SilverFast: Software for Scanner, Digital Camera and Imaging :: LaserSoft Imaging

or

Lifetime Membership to Pro Photo Home


This month we are going to try something a little bit different. We are going to have an image processing challenge. Pick one of the two images below and process it to the best of your ability in 20 minutes or less. These are two "real world" processing challenge images we have shot recently. One image is an original High Resolution Jpeg and the other is a Raw file.

Your challenge is to make an image for a good 16x20 print out of this, and post the result.

After 1 week a poll will be added to the thread and everyone will vote on the best solution. Simply post the resulting image to be voted on. If you are the winner you promise to post a detailed workflow of your specific solution with screenshots. Thanks to Noel Carboni for the idea. See this link for examples from the original thread.

This should help us all learn something. Please do not discuss the images until voting is complete.

Raw Image Instructions:
Download the attachment named "rawimage.cr2" below. This image was taken with a Canon 5D, hot lights and a 24-70 2.8 lens at a recent high school prom. It was shot at 800 iso and represents a challenge for getting good separation between subject and background. It also has potential noise problems in the dark shadow details of the image. Would be noticeable at 16x20. This probably illustrates a little bit of the "pixie dust" artifact that Lloyd referred to recently.






Jpeg Image Instructions:
Download the attachment named "JpegImage.jpgrename" below. You will need to rename the file with a jpeg extension to view it on your computer. This image was taken with a Canon 5D, Canon 300mm 2.8 lens. I think there is an interesting image in there somewhere of a guy sliding into home plate. Lots of lighting problems and cropping issues. Let's see what can be done.




In the future we will take your submissions for challenging images.

[Jerry Skrocki]

Originally Posted by drew

Your challenge is to make an image for a good 16x20 print out of this, and post the result.

Please also list the steps you took to produce your result. Preferably by posting screen shots of the workflow.

If this is a contest, why would we post the workflow we used to create the processed image?

[drew]

Well, I guess I thought most people use different tools. But, point taken.

Simply post the result to be voted on and then promise to post a detailed graphical workflow if you win.

I've updated the instructions above.

[Noel_Carboni]

#1


Bravo, Drew!

As I don't have a scanner and I'm already a lifetime member, I'm not sure what I'd do with the prizes offered, but I'd like to participate in this anyway.

Here's my effort on the Raw file. Click on the image below to retrieve a full-sized image prepped for 16 x 20 inch printing at 200 ppi.



-Noel

[Noel_Carboni]

#2


Not sure if one is supposed to process both or just one, but I had a crack at the JPEG as well.

As above, click on this image to see the print ready version.



-Noel

[Dennis_Vied]

#3


Here's mine.

[Dennis_Vied]

#4


And the other one.