Then in McGimp 2.9 blended two color curves layers, one for the yellow-green fluorescent fabric and one for the rest of the image.
Flattened and blended with Freaky Details, sharpening.
Was unsatisfied with the skin color and the reddish hue on the fabric highlight, so I blended in (ie. slowly raised opacity) a Ashikhmin Eqn 4 (LuminanceHDR) color-mode layer until those issues were reduced.
Ouch - this was a difficult one. I wanted to get rid of the reflections in their eye protections as well as to put more emphasis on where the three main characters look (hence the crop)…
Apart from for cropping, I just used tools from the Nik Collection:
Raw Presharpener,
Detail Extractor (only over the horse’s eyes and the helmet, using control points),
Viveza 2 (to increase structure, once again using the two control points),
Color Efex Pro 4: Darken/Lighten Centre to make everything but the horse’s head a trifle darker, and finally a touch of the
Thanks everyone for the edits on my picture
It is great to see everyone’s interpretation of the scene.
I found it a really hard edit as the high vis jackets and the grey horse meant it was difficult to get the highlights right @HIRAM @Claes @patdavid
I think it’s a great photo on which to hone one’s processing skills in the ongoing quest of learning how to process photos effectively. It’s great because the highlights in the fluorescent greens are easily blown, and moreover the green is so rich it can all-too-easily become way over-saturated, especially once the final conversion to sRGB is made.
I am enjoying seeing how everyone is coping with those highlights and the high vis jacket on the police lady and horse. They are really challenging.
I like too the crops that have gone in close on the horse, the police lady and the main man , I never thought of getting in that close.
This Saturday is my last visit of the season to the football stadium (soccer stadium) where the image was shot as it is the last home game of the season for Bolton Wanderers. We have been relegated to the third tier of the English Football Leagues (it is only 5 years ago that we were in the top league - the English Premier League), so we have had a mighty fall and almost went out of business with massive debts).
Extremely late entry. But I saw this image only today and thought of giving it a try. I think almost all the highlights are recovered. What do you think? Have a look. Phil_Howcroft-IMG_5591.jpg.out.pp3 (11.0 KB)
