Pictures were taken in Alexandria and Giza, Egypt.

The Rules:
1. Lr Rule 5 - Enjoy
2. The Usual stuff:
All work must be done in either ACR or LR except for cropping, sharpening and using your noise filter. You can make some MINOR changes in PSE/CS3 if you want. If you use a preset, please list the name and a link to the source if you have that information. Also, if you'd like, please describe your workflow. [Or not, but fess up and tell us what you did.]

http://www.4shared.com/file/88290486/d7 ... _5046.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/88290512/f6 ... _5123.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/88290535/ac ... _5142.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/88290595/56 ... _5144.html

Password is sandy.

I will get these done early this week!!

Thanks Sunny!
That will be an opportunity to test my new computer... Seems it is night and day with raw compared to the old one! (Pentium dual core 2.6 GHz 2Gb, XP).
Otherwise, I am very busy with the organizer, having more than 30 000 pictures (original, raws, edited...) to sort, cull, tag...
Just uploaded your raws to edit tomorrow.

What fun. Michel's got a new toy!

Yay for Michael!

Now a question, and I promise I will post this week, honestly.

I look at the pictures and at the Snapshots in Lr and see this:

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It looks like the DNG file sticks with the profile used at time last used?

I must admit, I never use DNG formats, just the RAW and ACR, but am interested.

Did too many things to remember, but used the Gradient tool for the foreground/sand, straightened, then went with a preset called B&W Stark amd fiddled with the split toning.

Wanted to end up with an antique look.

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And number 2:

Did this:

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Got this:

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John - I thought I had reset all those pictures, so I'm wondering if you had an import preset selected??? Perhaps I missed resetting one? I checked, and I didn't import using a preset and there's no indication in the history that I applied a camera profile to any of the pictures, so I don't have an answer for you. And, I have no idea what "aa1" is on that snapshot. Whatever, I'm glad you played. I'm glad to see someone has been into the split toning section..........I'm pretty clueless about ST.

Edit - I just had a thought. I'm on my home PC now, but I uploaded from my Mac at work (I've got my pictures in both places). MAYBE I applied a camera profile when I imported the pictures at work. I'll check tomorrow. If that's the case, then I guess the import preset sticks. We'll see.

Sunny,

The aa1 and the other import one are from me. Once I get to a version I like, I do a snapshot as aa1, then aa2, etc. Lets me keep playing, but can always get back to the state I was in.

Mystery solved. The pictures were imported at work with Import/Canon Profile - Landscape. I reset the pictures before exporting. The exported DNG doesn't have the preset applied, but the snapshot will apply the preset if you want it.

I really should play the same way at home and at work.