Edit my photo - Fun challenge

a_auger · Jun 17, 2014

Here's my attempt in LR5:

Added lens profile and removed spots (Yeah, there were a few...), leveled horizon, and 16x9 crop, great for wallpapers! Played around with exposure, saturation and brought the shadows up. Kicked the oranges and the blues up a little and did a brush selection of the greens and brought those up too. Added a grad filter to brighten up the sky a little, and that's about it!

sscarmack · Jun 17, 2014

Drumroll pleaseeeeee.

Lightroom5

View attachment 77121

Temp: 4350
Tint: +18
Exposure -.55
Contrast +33
Highlights -86
Shadows +43
Whites +71
Blacks 0
Clarity +4
Vibrance +3
Saturation 0

Graduated Filter (Land to water)
Temp 98
Tint 81
Exposure +.34
Contrast 0
Highlights +100
Shadows +49
Clarity +63
Saturation +17

Luminance
Red 0
Orange -1
Yellow -3
Green +6
Aqua +20
Blue +5
Purple 0
Magenta 0

Split Toning
Highlights
Hue 74
Sat 9

Shadows
Hue 0
Sat 7

Lens Corrections
Profile Correction

D7K · Jun 17, 2014

Nice - It's unfair you win your own challenge

sscarmack · Jun 17, 2014

D7K said:
Nice - It's unfair you win your own challenge

Ehhhhh, that Nuke one was pretty cool haha

Life · Jun 17, 2014

sscarmack said:
D7K said:

Nice - It's unfair you win your own challenge

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Ehhhhh, that Nuke one was pretty cool haha

Haha thanks. I was tempted to add a shockwave, and ripple the water. Maybe even blow over some trees, but I didn't want to over do it

Nice edit btw, but maybe consider lightening up the tree to the left. For a more natural image it is too dark. My 2 cents

Life · Jun 17, 2014

D7K said:
Life said:

I wanted to do something nobody else did yet. XD. That being said, I brighten'd, added tilt shift. Distorted, reduced sat, blurred, Deepen'd, added a nuke... This was just a fun one. I'll post a more realistic edit after everyone got to see this

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Haha Yeah, you know, standard Photoshop stuff..