Continuing the image editing thread, 29th issue!
Everybody Loves A Ghost Town! (I hope)
About This Image: I made this capture some years ago with the first m43 camera I owned, the Oly EM5, at Bodie, an old mining town in California that's been preserved as a historical park. Though the image is a bit noisy and obviously from a small sensor camera, it will give you more if you work with it. The first snow of the year had fallen the night before, but the warm temps had already melted it. We still had the benefit from the atmospherics following a cleared storm. See what you can make of it! (Original ORF in dropbox here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dglc13kzfobbo824f814s/bodie.orf?rlkey=zmn7zoxzkr5jdx3q1ygpvlgkj&dl=0)
Get your edits in by Sunday, May 25, and we will have one extra day for voting before passing the baton.
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 and/or techniques 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 gathering most likes wins and its author will start next round, unless they would prefer to pass the torch to someone else.
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 from the the photos receiving the most votes.
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..
- Generative AI must not be used.
