Congratulations Kayaker72---Assignment #65: "Before and After"

[Poik]

Ok, so I needed a cover photo for my master's thesis report. It needed to look good both in color and black and white for printing purposes. I wanted the photo to really capture the reader's attention, with focus on the vehicle and not the background, so I shot at f2.8. I also wanted the photo to show the behavior of the vehicle, so the vertical trees in the background really give a good reference to the roll angle of the body to show the vehicle is cornering. Basically I just took the saturation of the green and yellow channels to -100. I usually try to never do any local adjustments, but I did in this photo because the ramp in the background was distracting.

Before:


After:
Magic Tires by Poik242, on Flickr

[M_Six]

Pseudo-HDR (HDR from one shot), perspective corrections, some cropping, removal of people and signs.

Before



After

[Kayaker72]

Last weekend to enter!

[neuroanatomist]

A rather uninspiring shot of Boston Light on a hot afternoon at 4 pm...



...made a little more interesting:



Thanks for looking!

[Kayaker72]

This Horseshoe Bend just outside of Page, Arizona.

Taken with a Canon 5DIII and a Rokinon 14 mm f/2.8 UMC 1/40th, ISO 100. I believe the aperture was f/8.

I tried taking multiple exposures to combine in post. But, I liked the end results of modifying a single image the best (so far).

Before:

After:

Small-8114 by kayaker72, on Flickr

Thanks for viewing...Brant

[conropl]

I am glad this is not a weekly assignment... I do not have to pick a winner. I just have to narrow it down to five or so (which is going to be hard enough), but you all have to choose a winner out of all the excellent examples.

Keep them coming.

Edit: Opps... I see the entry period has ended (June 29th). I will try to figure out who the finalist will be. This is not going to be easy.

Brant - Sorry I did not wait for your "official" announcement of the end of the assignment. I hope you do not mind.

Pat

[Kayaker72]

No problem.....I should have said something on Monday......

[Kayaker72]

Congratulations to the finalists...the poll is now open!

[Kayaker72]

Voting ends Sunday!

[conropl]

It looks like Brant is to humble to announce his own win. So I will.

Congratulation Brant (Kayaker72). Well done and a good example of what you can pull out of the shadows of a RAW file.

Pat