It is the beginning of the month, which means another session in the digital darkroom to work on the June One Photo Focus image. This is a photo processing project hosted by Stacy Fischer at Visual Venturing, whereby participants from all corners of the globe get to work on a single image. As Stacy puts it, it really highlights the creative magic behind post-processed photos.
June Image
This month’s image is kindly provided by David Croker of CADEPhotographic. It depicts a peaceful river scene on a sunny day and was taken at Broxborne in Hertfordshire, UK.
Here is the original:
My Process
I love the feel of David’s image. You know me by now: boats and water… a winning combination! However I found the original was a little dark and underexposed. So my first step was to give it a lift, to get a brighter, more crystalline quality. Using Lightroom, I made adjustments to temperature and tone, exposure, shadows and highlights, blacks and whites, clarity and vibrance. Here is a screenshot showing the sliders and the effect on the image:
The second step was to crop the image as a panoramic and add a light vignette, to focus our attention on the moored cruisers and their reflections.
This is the result:
I wish I could have eliminated the pylons and power lines, but unfortunately my editing skills are not that good!
Thank you David for letting us play with your image. I had fun editing it. And many thanks Stacy for coordinating this great challenge. It is always enjoyable to take part and inspiring to see the range of interpretations from other participants. To have a look at what others have done this month, click on the One Photo Challenge badge.
Sv-Anui 
I like it! Yes, would be nice to eliminate the power lines, but I suppose it’s more true to life this way.
Thanks Ellen, yes that’s true!
perfect editing!! Beautiful!
Thanks so much for the kind feedback Cybele.
Very beautiful. And I love the crop!
Thanks Laura. I am not sure about the pano crop anymore. In hindsight I probably should have kept the lovely clouds and their reflections.
I’m into this 16:9 crop these days. I was just cropping some a minute ago. I like that you did something different but I know what you mean. Many times I look back and second guess.
Much better lighter and love the reflections
Thank you Sue. I think my crop takes some of the clouds reflections away, but it focuses your attention on the boats.
I like this summery, colourful version.
Marie
Glad you like it, Marie!
Good on yuh babe you sure made that look a lot better.
You make me laugh Terry! Thanks for the kind words😊🚣🏽
Nice crop, draws the attention to the boats, that’s no coincidence I suppose! I’m not sure that keeping the pylons and power lines in is a bad thing, it draws us back to reality! Nice work! 🙂
Thanks Katie, for some reason your comment ended up in my spam folder. So glad I checked!