Post Processing Challenge No. 195 - Closed, winner announced

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Well Christmas is coming and the Season of Christmas lights is getting closer, as I'm currently deep in building the light display for this season a photo from xmas 2014 seemed like a good idea.
This was taken outside my house a couple nights before christmas, the two families that own the old cars generally drop in at the end of their tour around and stay to chat for an hour whilst watching the display.

Shot with EM1 and 4/3rds 12-60mm using only the light that was available.
Handheld 1/4s, F3.2, Iso2000 18mm

Have fun

Yes that is my display reflected in the front fender of the first car :)

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Contest will close Friday around midnight Australian time.
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The Challenger will provide any photo that he/she deems worthy of challenging other members to "improve" by way Post Processing. It must be their own photo. "Improve" is a subjective term, and includes many creative ideas as well as traditional "fixing". The Challenger agrees that entrants may make any changes they deem fit to post in their entry.

The winner of the previous challenge gets to post the next Challenge and serves as the judge for his/her PP challenge.

For obvious purposes, the judge is disqualified from participating in his/her own PP challenge. Instead, he/she should post a photo to start out the challenge.

***** If the winner fails to post a new challenge within five days, the responsibility passes to the runner-up. *****

At the end of the 72-hours (we don't have to be strict about 72-hours, especially with time differences depending on where you are on the globe), the judge will name a winner, a first runner-up, and a second runner-up.


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Entries shall be limited to 2 per member for each Challenge.

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To make sure we don't break any Mu-43 rules/regulations, by participating in the PP Challenge you are allowing the judge to re-post your image for the sole purpose of announcing the winners in the thread.
 

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Decided to something a bit outside the norm for me. Some split toning and some selective coloring.

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Lots of adjustments (spot, color, clone, etc.) in LR...


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Found it difficult to get something I liked with this one. Ended up mucking around in the PS filter gallery:

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some really interesting entries so far.... keep em coming :)

This is one that is still in my to-do pile as it is quite challenging
 

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Ok thanks everyone, gave me some ideas and I'll throw my own version into the cars thread soon.

Third goes to "sesser", just something appealed, it felt balanced.

Second goes to "bigbpysdad", that colour is just about spot one from memory, haven't seen the cars for ages but everything else looks right.

First does go to "protapic", I just love the work done to isolate the cars as the central feature and you showed me the car in the background can be got rid of :)

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Over to protapic for the next round.

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Thanks Phil,
Once I removed that background car (which was first on my fix-it list), I figured I had creative license to remove a whole lot more....the thing I like about these challenges is that they forced me to learn and push my PP skills. Removing the car was actually much easier than removing/diminishing the blue-purple blob behind the main car. I still did not find a good way to do this selectively in LR, giving up and darkening whole second car in the end.
Will have next one up shortly!
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