Vertical close-up black-and-white macro shot of a tree trunk. The photo focusing on the texture of the tree's rugged, layered bark and highlights a central knot or hole, that looks like an eye. I'm trying to show the organic patterns shaped by time and but also render them somewhat abstract, so that the final image actually does look like an eye! 

"The Hills Have Eyes."
"I See You."

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMovies #Nature #TextureTuesday #Photography
#ClassicMono #Landscape #BnW #MobilePhotography #Trees #ECK
#PostProcess #MacroPhotography
#BNWmacro

I didn’t have any photo software,
@jaycee-visionlogic.eurosky.social suggested I download Snapseed and participate in this challenge. Thanks, Jaycee! I love it!
Photo provided by @rjrock.bsky.social

#vintage #BlackAndWhite
#ECK #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono
#PostProcess #TonalShift

I have two today for #UrbanGaze #photograph. This one also hits #PostProcess #TonalShift. Photo taken at a crossroad in California, near Joshua Tree National Park. Dust devil 😈 in action. Added a combo of noir and vivid warm filters, turned up the definition and sharpness a bit. Nature in charge 🌬️

I first switched to monochrome, and applied a some filters to clear up haze and sharpen the landscape to bring out the details of the rocks. I also applied an overall slightly red hue, since both colors I was aiming for would have significant red in them. I then masked both the sky and landscape so I could adjust each separately. I adjusting some lighting paramaters (contrast, highlights, shadows, etc.) for each befor turning to color. For this part, I separately adjusted the red, blue and green curves to get the shades I was looking for. This was a very interesting and educational exercise for me, as I know practically nothing about color theory! Overall the colors are intentionally very dramatic, perhaps in reaction to posting so many monochrome images the last couple of days. The colors are also much more saturated than colors on Mars are in real life; but also, I thought, more fun to produce.

For my try at this challenge, I had an idea similar to Rock's, and tried to imagine this scene on (an idealized) Mars. My goal was to get a butterscotch sky and a brick-red landscape. All processing done in Lightroom; see alt text for details.

#ECK #Photography #PostProcess #TonalShift

A squirrel sits on a cement ledge, peering into swathes of tall, dry, grass.

Precipice

#EastCoastKin #Monochrome #ClassicMono #BlackandWhite #Photography #Photo #Urban #Nature #Travel #SensoryArt #Texture #Animal #Look #Travel #Adventure #Dream #NYC #Park #Train #UrbanGaze #PostProcess #TonalShift #Dream #Scape #Spring

1) starting from jpeg, in polarr remove colors 2) overlay some sky as transparent gradient Save as jpeg 3) open in Snapseed. 4) increase Ambience 5) apply Structure to about 30 6) use exposure and temperature brushes to create highlights and shift shadows to less red

Take the photo from the right and convert to black and white

#PostProcess #TonalShift

Not sure this is what was expected, but here is my take.

The photo of the Grand Canyon was provided by @rjrock.bsky.social for Postprocess challenge

#ECK

Original photo by @rjrock.bsky.social

Sepia version...

#PostProcess #TonalShift #classicmono #sepia #photography

Original photo by @rjrock.bsky.social

Edited in Google Photos

#PostProcess #TonalShift #classicmono #photography

A high-angle, black-and-white photograph of the Grand Canyon. The image captures the vast scale of the canyon with dramatic lighting that emphasizes the jagged ridges and deep shadows of the rock formations. In the distance, a flat horizon line meets a clear sky, while a winding trail is visible in the darker foreground. The high contrast between the brightly lit plateaus and the shadowed crevices highlights the geological layers and textures of the landscape.

#PostProcess #TonalShift

Thanks for the Challenge!

All Lightroom -
Took overall exposure down
Luminance mask to raise exposure on brightest rocks
Darkened sky /linear gradient
Cropped to emphasize rock structures left and center
plus some basic tonal adjustments

#ECK #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono

A color photo of the Grand Canyon. The canyon is lightened up so the tops of peaks look almost white. The lower parts are a soft red. There aren't deep shadows in the crevices. The sky is a soft blue with a pinkish haze at the horizon.

Time for another edit for #PostProcess #TonalShift.

Photo by @rjrock.bsky.social

A softer color edit. I'm usually into a lot of shadows and dark tones, but I decided to lighten up here. Edited in Apple Photos and Google Photos.

#EastCoastKin #ECK

Thanks for the homework!

After conversion in Topaz I made adjustments to WB, White & Black levels and added some grain. I couldn't open the DNG in Capture One, Paintshop Pro or and older version of LR.

#PostProcess #TonalShift #ClassicMono

Photo: @rjrock.bsky.social

A black and white landscape photo of the Grand Canyon. Using Snapseed, I converted it to black and white. Sharpened the photo and cropped it. I added a tiny bit of purple to the black for the distant landscape and a sepia tone in the landscape in the foreground. In my mind I was thinking of a horseback rider from the 1800's finally reaching this vista. I gave the photo a look of that era of photography and coloring.

Red rock and dry winds. Original Photo by @rjrock.bsky.social for #tonalshift #postprocess #eastcoastkin
{Process in Alt}

After cropping, in photoshop i went Image > Adjustments > Black & white then i used topaz labs Adjust- exposure Correction back to adjustment > curves, to give it a nice S shape adjustment > Exposure to bump the gamma up a little, dial back exposure a hair adjustment > levels, to fix the clipping resize 2160x1440

photo credit; @rjrock.bsky.social
#PostProcess #TonalShift
To crop, i wanted to keep the road lower left running towards the diagonal canyon upper right. see alt for detail
#photography #ECK

a Copper toned look at the Grand Canyon

Decided to take up @rjrock.bsky.social 's challenge

#PostProcess #TonalShift

Grand Canyon
By
@rjrock.bsky.social
I imported his original into Photoshop, used Nik 7 to desaturate it, used a preset of my own to intensify, made the tone curve more s like, added Red sensitivity, Copper tinted.

Very kind of you, Robyn, TY.

Tbh, I prefer my first #PostProcess cropped version. It was abstract, blue, furry, and fuzzy, lol, almost like a weird macro shot of a hairy spider's gaping blue maw (mouth) and hairy legs. 😆 But then, I'm a sucker for the Rorschach aspects of abstract photography. 💙

I edited this in Photoshop. I brought up the contrast and increased the reddish glow to look more like it is later in the day. I put in a black/transparent gradient at the bottom to hide the protruding rocks and to additionally make it look later in the day. I put in a different sky, also to fit more with the feeling of dusk.

#PostProcess #TonalShift

This is a color edit of a photo of the Grand Canyon by @rjrock.bsky.social

I edited this in Photoshop. Details in alt text.

#ECK

Black and white image of the Grand Canyon. The foreground is darker, perhaps in the shadow of the setting sun, and the background grows lighter, still illuminated by the sun. The sky has a gradation/vignette that grows darker near the edges of the image.

#PostProcess #TonalShift

Grand Canyon
By @rjrock.bsky.social

I made my edits in Snapseed:
▫️Used black and white tool
▫️HDR Scape
▫️Crop
▫️Adjusted a number of tonal adjustments (contrast, etc)

#ECK #ClassicMono

A photograph of the Grand Canyon which has been edited to appear it could have been taken at dusk. The image overall had the exposure shifted down, black point and shadows darkened, and clarity slightly sharpened. Two further linear gradient masks were added in Affinity's Development Studio. The first starts slightly below the upper edge of the frame and ends within the more orange-tone section of the canyon's side. The second runs from the bottom up into the orange-toned area. The upper mask was initially aimed at adding some drama to the sky with colour, but was extended into the canyon edge eventually. The white balance was heavily tinted purple, but left on the warm side. The result is deep purple at the top, but the canyon still has the interesting oranges that over saturating it pulled up. The white balance in the lower mask was shifted significantly cooler and the tint adjusted towards purples. Exposure and shadows were also heavily lowered. The development masks stack on top of any other edits made to the overall master image, but are gradients so the effects are most significant at the upper and lower edges of the frame in this case. The orange section is going to have some level of interference from the master edits and both mask layers as they overlap slightly.

First go at the #PostProcess #TonalShift challenge from @rjrock.bsky.social using the provided photo. Such a fun idea!

I edited using Affinity. After playing around a bit to see what colours I could get, I decided to go for a twilight/sunset effect. Details in #AltText

#EastCoastKin #ECK

Reworked in Photoshop and Topaz. Removed color, manual tone shifts to bring out more contrast, sharpness added in Topaz, back to Photoshop with HDR toning and a final touch of slilght posterization.

Processing challenge for #tonalshift #postprocess
Original photo by @rjrock.bsky.social
#EastCoastKin
Changes detailed in ALT

A split-field monochrome interpretation of the Grand Canyon, originally photographed by @rjrock.bsky.social, processed in ON1 with a wet plate texture and low-key tonal treatment. Created in response to a brief to remove the colour — high key, low key, noir, cyanotype, platinum — where does your eye go? The bilateral symmetry creates a landscape that feels lost in time, like an old postcard of a place that doesn't exist, but might.

Eldorado #PostProcess #EastCoastKin #ECK #TonalShift #BlackAndWhitePhotography

Original: @rjrock.bsky.social (brief/tools: See Alt text)

Thinking: Stripping the colour made the canyon feel lost in time and pushed me to lean into: "An old postcard of a place that doesn't exist, but might."!

A playful interpretation of the tonal shift challenge within East Coast Kin. An xpan crop of the original with part of it flipped and layered above, like a mirror of the Grand Canyon. Colours are mostly false made by various filters.

A little 2001 take on the tonal shift challenge. I don't usually indulge my inner freak like this, so it was fun to explore well outside my usual toolset. #ECK #tonalshift #eastcoastkin #postprocess

My edits of Rock's Grand Canyon image for the PostProcess, TonalShift challenge

Hoping not to embarrass myself here.
This is my #PostProcess #TonalShift edit of @rjrock.bsky.social's photo.

I cropped a bit to remove distractions, went to Snapseed for drama, warmth, and tonal adjustments. What's surprising is that I like the result!
#EastCoastKin
#ClassicMono

#PostProcess #TonalShift

This is a really fun challenge!

I was going for an ink illustration with a water spill…

Back and forth multiple times in photoshop and Snapseed then a crop on a vignette.

#ECK #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono

Black and white converted image of stark and rocky gorge. The horizon is a broken line of distant mountains.

#PostProcess #TonalShift #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono My dad took this 35mm slide shot 65 years ago. Inadequate storage left the original colors badly compromised. I converted to #blackandwhite and tweaked the clarity. It used to be gorgeous in color.

Opps.. #PostProcess

Blue hour at colourful canyon with full moon

#postprocess #tonalshift #ECK
original 📷 by @rjrock.bsky.social

by chance, I discovered this account / challenge.

edit colours with Snapseed and added 🌕 on my XiaomiHyperOS Pad 5

well, perhaps a bit of too much 🤭 but winter is back here & all covered in white

hope you enjoy it 🙏🏻

I really enjoyed this postprocess challenge worked with Dxo Filmpack

a nice exercise
#eck #postprocess #tonalshift

Black and white photo of the Grand Canyon.

This is my take on the #PostProcess challenge of the photo by @rjrock.bsky.social.
My aim was to highlight the horizintal lines of this geological marvel.

I used the editing tools in the foto app of my iPhone 16pro.
#TonalShift #ECK

First I have set the image back to a B&W and after that I have play around with the different opportunities in Snapseed on my Samsung S 25 Ultra. I hope to get advices what I can do better. Saw some incredible images from all the others !!

@rjrock.bsky.social have a new challenge for the #ECK #PostProcess #TonalShift, first of all I don't really know if i have it understand it good. I am totally not handy with editing. In this case I have used Snapseed. More in Alt. I am open for any advice and what I can do better.

a view into the craggy depths of the grand canyon, from above

#PostProcess #TonalShift

I prefer vertical framing - so i did a crop in photoshop then lowered exposure and bumped up contrast... then transferred over to Snapseed for a vintage cross process bw with a faded dreamy feel... Thank you Rock & Jason 🥰

#ECK #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono