my entries for
photogames fixit Friday week 7
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below, you'll find my photo interpretations
together with the original pix and direct link to each contest.
challenge from @jarvie
left original. right my take on the photo.
view the contest here.
yaaaaay! Pix of milky way's galactic plane! as a fan of astrophotographs, this is my favorite for this week's fixit friday contest.
I tried to emphasize the galactic center, giving some punched highlights. I was half-tempted to darken most of the foreground soil, creating mere silhouettes, while further highlighting the car itself, but thought better when I saw the canyon at the right part has interesting details as well so I raised its shadows instead.
challenge from @derekkind
left original. right my take on the photo.
view the contest here.
I wasn't sure how to approach this photograph at first. Clearly, @derekkind wants us to make the tree as the main subject. I find the canyon ridges beyond an interesting background so I raised the exposure further to reveal its details. I cropped the right part, which I find the least appealing element of the photo, to give what I think a better overall perspective. Like we're looking over the canyons together with the tree itself.
I played with the colors a bit, turning the tree leaves greener while the ground orange hot —yeah, the natural color scheme lol. I wanted to emphasize in the photo that despite the atrocious heat, life can still dwell in dire condition. It's about adaptability.
challenge from @skiesandsports
left original. right my take on the photo.
view the contest here.
This photo looked simple at first but took me a while to edit. I increased the shadows, revealing the interesting details of rocks and mountainsides around the water; lowered the highlights in the sky; then turned the water somewhat "icy."
I played with the colors a bit and went for a calm before the storm look.
edit
i interchanged the position of the photos
i remembered i promised @jarvie i'll arrange it this way
in my first fixit friday participation
so that the thumbnail of my post is the pix i postprocessed
I'm grateful that the photo game stars provided the RAW file as I could play more with their pictures. Tho, it feels quite odd to edit other people's work...
Anyway, I'm taking the contest as an opportunity to challenge myself as postprocessing pix is something I'm quite indecisive about; usually, it takes me many tries, exploration and there are times I do not know at which point to stop —because we can create an interpretation of or enhance the photo in so many ways— that I usually end up making several versions. So a deadline is very helpful in this case and I'm looking at the contest as a form of creative exercise.
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