Continuing the image editing thread, 28th issue!
General rules:
- A previous round winner presents a busy or just not so interesting image, having at least some potential for different crops or visions.
- Anyone (except author of original image) can edit the presented image, up to three distinct edits in separate posts are permitted.
- All edits must be based on original image, not on another people's edits (of course borrowing ideas would not be a problem). - Short explanations about your editing intentions and/or techniques are encouraged, but not required.
Once the deadline for images has been reached, no new image versions will be accepted. Questions and (polite) discussions of techniques are welcome, so that we can learn from one another how certain edits were achieved.
The edited version gathering most likes wins and its author will start next round, unless they would prefer to pass the torch to someone else.
On the closing day for voting, if there is a draw in the number of likes for two or more edits, then the person that posted the original image will decide the winner from the the photos receiving the most votes.
Timing:
Get your images posted by May 17. As always, you can vote during the entire contest plus one day after the image submission deadline. I'll post reminders.
Normally these rules directly below apply, but please see my special editing rules, below the image, for this image only
Editing rules:
- All "normal" adjustments (brightness, colours, curves etc) are permitted (both local and global ones).
- All geometric adjustments (perspective, cropping etc) are permitted.
- Artistic effects (brushes, textures etc) are allowed.
- No additions or replacements may be made to the main subject matter of the image; non-essential objects may be removed, and parts of the original image can be "moved" to a different position in the image. Sky replacements are OK unless the sky is the main subject..
- Generative AI must not be used.
The image
Walking around inside a camera
In Portugal in the city of Tavira you can visit a great working camera obscura.
You walk up into an old converted water tower and, with the help of a mirror and a big lens outside on the roof, you can see a live view of the city projected onto a large concave shaped round table. You can rotate the lens and even "zoom" in and focus and have a tour of the city from the guide.
Here’s a link to their website (LINK) that explains everything. There’s also a panaroma 360° view showing what you can see on the table in front of you
My image is, to be honest terrible, taken quickly with a phone in a dark place, blurry and noisy, and there is no RAW version.
I’d be pleasantly surprised if you can make it into something better.
Special editing rules for this challenge only
Go wild, you can use any techniques you like! Maybe AI can help?
Perhaps even pasting in something copy/pasted from the panorama picture on the website ?
but do try to keep a resemblance of my original image in the result :-)
Have fun
