Edit Me An Image #21 - Cabin In The Woods

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 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 with most likes, wins and its author will start next round.
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.

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. (We are still refining this rule).
Generative AI must not be used.

Timing:
Get your images posted by March 15th.
As always, you can vote during the entire contest plus one day after the image submission deadline.
I'll post reminders.

The Image:
A bunch of problems to deal with here, blown highlights in the house windows, mixed light sources/white balance issues, lots of dynamic range, a generally undesirable distribution of light and contrast. Good luck...

A simple quickie edit to stand in for the lack of a SOOC jpeg - the house is a brownish barn red with whit trim and a green roof...

Here's the RAW file: www.dropbox.com/t/0y7nGFalrGObsJbf

LR: crop, calibration, horizontally rotated, basic some texture, brightnes, saturation, luminance of the colors red, purple and magenta reduced, the starry sky brought back

LrC adoptive color profile, reduced highlights in windows, AI denoise, crop, texture.

Darkened sky

Tried to do something different but it ended up looking like several of the others already posted.. Tricky pic Erik!!

So this is different...

As I said earlier, Erik has just about defeated me with this one. So for my final effort I did something weird with the IColorama filter on the phone that may or may not be acceptable.

Another tie. While the idea was to capture the cabin nestled in the dark woods, I liked Alan's take on this the best. A special mention also goes to minniev, for the extra effort. So congratulations Alan, you're up next.. Like everyone else though, the porch of the cabin was left unnaturally light and flat looking to me (the effect of way too much light pouring out of the windows). Of course a bunch of things went wrong with this one, and I'm the only one who knows what it was "supposed" to look like. I figured a real challenge would be fun, but.maybe I'll stick to more middle of the road image next time if the opportunity comes along again.

If anyone is curious, as the color was somewhat difficult to wrangle with this one, I initially went the monochrome route...

But eventually got around to a color version as well...

Who are tied? I see minniev and alan have two votes but I have three. Am I missing something?

Woops, screwed up again, definitely a bad week for me. Very sorry, but had I not miscounted, I would have voted for Alan’s and there would have been a tie (I didn’t vote at all). Sort it out however you guys see fit, maybe both post a challenge? I’ll try to not win in the future, I’m clearly not very good at running these things.

OK, let's proceed with Alan's thread as #22. At the end of the day fun is what counts.

Very magnanimous

Tim