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Challenge: Grunge V (Standard Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Sony DSC-F707
Date: Jan 9, 2025
Date Uploaded: Jan 9, 2025

 Infrared layered on top of color image, luminosity blend mode. This means that the IR image lightens/darken the colors of the normal image, creating a surreal look. It has a large effect on area's with lots of IR light such as sky and foliage and in this case also affected the colors or the graffiti.

It came out with a good grunge look, after some further desaturation.

Full processing (all on total image except clone stamp of step 6):
1) auto levels on IR image (to remove green color cast) and lighten midtones with curves
2) layer IR on top of normal image, luminosity blend mode
3) scale IR image to match the normal image and then crop (as result of wavelenght IR results in different focus and therefore smaller image angle when compared to visible light)
4) desaturate -33%
5) curve
6) remove light post and part of fence (replace with background tree and grass)
7) add 3% noise
8) resize for dpc and unsharp mask

It was checked with SC beforehand whether step 2 was legal in standard editing and it was concluded that it is covered by the muti-image rule (in line with for example HDR images)

Statistics
Place: 1 out of 24
Avg (all users): 6.6364
Avg (participants): 6.8125
Avg (non-participants): 6.4706
Views since voting: 161
Views during voting: 69
Votes: 33
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0

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 02/26/2025 04:55:22 PM
An astonishing photo, disturbing, disorienting: the two slabs of graffiti are vile enough but it is the parkland beyond, itself like a mural lighted as in a storm or dream, that sets it up.
 01/30/2025 02:58:25 AM
Originally posted by GeneralE:
When we were discussing the legality of this technique I was very curious to see the effect, and hoping you'd post information on the technique so I and others could steal adapt it for our own use -- thanks!

For area's without foliage, you could do it by copying the color layer, converting that layer to grayscale and then blending it with the color. But the infrared effect on foliage is hard to replicate. Maybe with some local editing it would be possible.
Here is another image where I applied the same technique:

And this was the first one where I did it


Message edited by author 2025-01-30 03:16:03.
 01/29/2025 10:36:36 PM
When we were discussing the legality of this technique I was very curious to see the effect, and hoping you'd post information on the technique so I and others could steal adapt it for our own use -- thanks!
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 01/29/2025 01:42:05 PM
Congratulations, A very well executed image and one very worthy of the Blue. A top pick from me 9. Thank you for the details.
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 01/29/2025 07:02:07 AM
Well done Willem. Your attention to detail has certainly paid off. Great image for the challenge.
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 01/29/2025 06:51:20 AM
Congratulations, Willem! This was a perfect entry for the challenge and I like your processing choices.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/28/2025 11:40:43 PM
My fave of the challenge. I love how your editing makes the graffiti just pop.
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