Topic: challenge pages also personal use ?

[Frits]

Mike,

I have placed some photo's on my personal gallery.
they are sandsculptures.
I have always a problem to make the sand color right.
the sand is not ordinairy see-sand but river-sand.
I would place the orginals on the challenge-page, so that others can trie it to make it better then I have done it today.
I have lot of sandsculptures from the early days, witch  I would also better.
But , first  I like to hear or these from to day are good, or not and how I can  do it better.

Frits

[curvemeister]

Interesting images.  I think one of them would make a good challenge image.  This one is my favorite:
http://www.curvemeister.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-755

Meantime people are welcome to post improved versions to this thread, or to their own albums.

[curvemeister]

Here is my take on one of your delightful sand sculpture images.  I used the "lizard tail" move to add much more texture to the coffin lid (great theme for a sand sculpture, BTW!), and added contrast to some of the detailed work in the middle of the image. 

Since you mentioned that this is river sand, I went for a brown color, which turned out to be about the same color, but more saturated than the original color.

The curve file should be in the image - use alt-O to access it, and I've attached the acv file itself.

I would like to encourage others to post their interpretations.  If Fritz will post a slightly larger version, I'll make it one of the challenge images.  This is not the final word in how to correct this image, and I believe others will have different, and better interpretations using curves and other tools - sharpening for example.

[Frits]

Mike,

you have done it nice.

But this is the orginal picture.
that 's to say: I have sized the real orginals tot make them less 200k.
the real orginal's , I thrown them away.
Of course I have first done them  all with Curvemeister before making them less big.
I have made a sand pinfile first and used this on all the photo's
Frits

[Frits]

These are the orginal shrinked Sandcolored pictures I have made yesterday on the beach of Scheveningen.

Frits

[Frits]

From picture 4 , I made  a sand-pinfile from his leg and used it over nearly all pictures.
The results from that are in the User Gallery.

Frits

[Frits]

More sandsculptures:

[Frits]

Still more sandsculptures:

[Frits]

More sandsculptures:

[Frits]

more sandsculptures:

[Frits]

The last pictures:

the sand pin I used was this:

Zand   Lab(84.31,6.00,27.00)   pin to color   ;

There was also brightness in this sandpin.

I corrected if nessecarry the Brightness in Lab mode.

What do you think of the results and perhaps who has a suggestion how I can make it better.
I said earlier, I have lot of Sandsculptures from earlier years, which must be bettered!

Frits

[Frits]

Oh yeh....

All what you see are theme From Mozart.

Frits

[curvemeister]

This is an extremely interesting set of images.  I've never seen anything like it.

[Frits]

This is an extremely interesting set of images.  I've never seen anything like it.

Mike,

I have recovered with a special program all orginal photo's from the 1G cartridge.

Now I can place a bigger photo of the cofin.
when you like it , I can send the 100% jpeg photo for the Challengepage.

Frits

[Frits]

This is an extremely interesting set of images.  I've never seen anything like it.

That day, when I taken the pictures, there was sun and cloudy sky.
Every picture has a different sandcolor. Strange is that.
The older sandsculpture pictures from years ago has the same effect. Also with different camera's. I never succeeded, to make the pictures with the same basic sandcolor.
I have tried your 'lab'-curves with the picture you used first.
Strange that you maked the brightness darker. The sand is indeed river-sand from dutch rivers, but has not the deeply yellow-braun color. It has more the color from the orginal picture 4.
This is why I made the sand-pinfile from the leg of picture 4.

Frits