'Pimp my photo' challenge

Gaspode

Ok folks, not sure if this is the right place to post this, so mods if you want to move it somewhere mosr suitable please do so.


Basically I came across this photo on a backup disk today, taken in 2006. It was taken with an old point & shoot I had, and I had to rush the shot before my daughter caught me! It was a very misty day, so there was no definition to the sky at all and the light was poor.

My challenge is to see who can do the best job of modifying, correcting and otherwise improving the photo. Anyone fancy a try at it?

Crispin

stick-dan

Morrisseeee

My tries, 1 is black_n_white, 2 is a color adjusted version.

smash

5 min touch up so don't give out about it too much.

sikahunter

this is a quick one

Ghost Train

Lovely picture, quick adjustment
exposure increased, saturation increased, colour adjusted towards red a bit



user33367_adjust.jpg

positivenote

alright all, just wondering if there is any chance that people could post up what processing they have done to accompany their 'pimped' version of the image provided by the OP, as it would be very beneficial to those of us tipping away at photoshop and maybe we could try these various techniques on photos of our own....
just a taught.
Regards

Slidinginfinity

Here's my fast reworking.

KarmaGarda

Post processing:

I use The Gimp. Here's how I learnt to do this... even though it's not *exactly* what I did it's pretty close:

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Sepia_Toning/

32finn

32finn

my first time to post pix, bit of a run around but got there

positivenote

cropped and applied a pre-scripted action in photoshop called 'acidic'.

Gaspode

Great stuff so far guys, I'll let this run for another few days if that's OK.

PaulieC

here's my attempt. The girl's hat in the picture made me think '1970s' so I tried to get a washed out look

ttcomet

Masked the kid, brightned her up a bit, inverted the same selection on new layer and blurred the backround and darkend the image over all. Droped a new sky in and tried mirroring it in the water (not happy with the join at the trees).