First of all, a huge thank you to everyone who entered our TRA Recipe Contest this past March! We received way more entries than I thought we would, and to the extent that it’s taken a while to pick winners, that’s my excuse (well, that and a 2 month old baby boy and a hacked website, but that’s another story…) Also, I had intentions of emailing everyone personally when I got their entry to thank them, and since the number of entries swelled pretty fast, I never got around to that… so once again, believe me when I say that I appreciate the time spent in preparing and submitting the entries – thanks!
Lastly, we are so stinkin happy with all the photos submitted that we’re busy preparing a new website to host them all – it’ll be both a showcase for your raddest images, as well as a place to go for inspiration and ideas on how to get 100% from your favorite Photoshop actions – the Totally Rad Actions! Look for an announcement hopefully sometime in May this year.
So without further ado, here are the winners we’ve picked for our first ever TRA Recipe Contest:
1st Place – John + Kimberly Sanderson, Lancaster, PA
John and Kimberly will be receiving the DREAM PACKAGE from Into The Darkroom.
1st Place
The TRA Recipe:
- TRA – Bitchin B&W (as is, no changes.) (If wanting image to be B&W)
- Special action I made called “Buttery” (see below) made up of exclusively TRA actions:
- Very Mild B&W texture added for grain.
- Serve warm straight from the oven.
“Buttery” Recipe.
- Oh Snap (as is, no changes.)
- SX-70 with layer set to 45% opacity.
- Cinnamon toast with layer set to 47% opacity.
- Boutwell Magic Glasses (as is, no changes.)
2nd Place – Teri Fode, Sacramento, CA
One Year in the Wedding Chicks online directory, and one month on the site’s front page.
2nd Place
The TRA Recipe:
Photo Prep:
- Basic levels/curves
- Liquify and Healing Brush for skin/flaws
- O Snap100%
Photo Art:
- Flareup Golden 100%
- F/Zero 100% for Background / 47% foreground / 0% subject
- Saturation Brush: 35% yellow areas (dress/building/flare areas)
- Grainstorm 100% (erase out skin)
- Len Flare (create a dup layer and select 50-300mm under Filter > Render > Lens Flare @ 99%)
3rd Place – Christine Berry, Huntsville, AL
Christine wins a brand-new ShootSac, with her choice of custom cover.
After
Before
The TRA Recipe:
- Yin/Yang
- Select-O-Sharp
- Pool Party 100% (minus curve torture layer)
- Get Faded (summer) 30%
- Warm it up Kris 54%
- Get faded (winter) 37%
- Pool Party 50% (minus partial desat layer)
- Sharpen for web 2X
Thanks again to everyone who entered, and to our generous sponsors for the fabulous prizes! The contest was so much fun that we might just have to do it again sometime… until then, keep shooting, and keep rocking the Totally Rad Actions!
Kyle
Wow! I’m sad I didn’t win, but still super excited to try these cool recipes out!!!!!!
Apr 14, 2009 @ 4:27 pm
Jen @ Green Wedding Shoes
wow! gorgeous images… and congrats Christine!! I love that image :)
Apr 14, 2009 @ 5:02 pm
Theresa
The 1st place is absolutely FIRST Class! Perfection.
Apr 14, 2009 @ 6:37 pm
Leslie Gilbert
Yeah John and Kim!! I love it!
Apr 14, 2009 @ 6:38 pm
josh mccullock
way to go Sandersons! talk about a good recipe, John+Kim=pretty much amazing!
Apr 14, 2009 @ 7:25 pm
jennyb
Yipppeeee Christine, yours is my fave! So happy for ya girlie:)
Apr 14, 2009 @ 8:18 pm
Kim Kalyn
Way to go winners !! Those are some kick ass images. Thanks for putting on such a rad contest :)
Apr 14, 2009 @ 8:28 pm
ashley rodgers
LOVED this contest! and what amazing images and processing that these winners show! thanks for the opportunity doug! and yes!! have another contest!
Apr 14, 2009 @ 8:55 pm
Kim Davenport
Christine’s is my favorite as well! Great job to all though.
Apr 15, 2009 @ 5:49 am
shawnreeder
John and Kimberley’s image is amazing!!!! Love it.
Apr 15, 2009 @ 9:27 am
Laura W
LOVE these!! just tried out john’s “buttery” recipe, and it’s fabulous. thanks so much for sharing – looking forward to the new website!
Apr 15, 2009 @ 1:00 pm
Kat Braman
Wooot Christine! All 3 are awesome. I can’t wait to try these recipes.
Apr 15, 2009 @ 2:13 pm
Cecilia Grace Mizin
Hey DOUG! I think you should post other entries even if they didn’t win. There are other RAD recipes others put together. These images are absolutely B-E-A-UTIFUL!! I’m sad I’m not getting my SHOOTSAC!! I just really want a shootsac….
Apr 15, 2009 @ 6:22 pm
Simply Modern Weddings
WOW…these are really amazing. Great pick in the 1st place winner, that shot was super cool!
Apr 16, 2009 @ 2:31 am
Caitlin
is there somewhere the other sumbitted recipes were listed? :)
Apr 16, 2009 @ 9:39 am
admin
Workin on a place to put the rest of the recipes for sure! We have a couple hundred, I’d guess, so the recipes section on the current website would be super-cumbersome to hold em. Hopefully we’ll have it done in a month or so (that’s what it’s looking like, anyway)
Apr 16, 2009 @ 11:28 am
Cecilia Grace Mizin
Looking forward to another TOTALLY RAD Contest!!
Apr 16, 2009 @ 7:48 pm
sarina
I’m sad I didn’t win, but I’m really happy for all the winners. The after shots are amazing!
Apr 22, 2009 @ 11:11 am
Elsie
Are you going to post the recipes of those who didn’t win as well? I was just wondering because I thought it would be cool to see what people came up with!
Apr 22, 2009 @ 1:50 pm
Naqib
I was just wondering I saw the second winner,the image is relly nice,only thing is where can I find the ’saturation brush’ in totally rad actions.What name does that action come under?Please help,sorry if I’m a bit blur..hehe
Apr 24, 2009 @ 4:01 am
Daniel
These are cool. Would love to see more recipes! There should be a whole website full of em!
Apr 26, 2009 @ 10:02 pm
Catherine
Gorgeous! I can’t wait to try them out. I would love to see more!
Apr 28, 2009 @ 2:23 pm