Continuing the image editing thread, 64rd issue.
General rules:
♦ 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.
♦ Generative AI must not be used.
Timing:
Get your images posted by April 15th. As always, you can vote during the entire contest plus one day after the image submission deadline.
The photo:
Almost lost.
This image has an interesting story. Many years ago (2009) I did a two-day photo shoot to photograph Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, with the idea of inserting the images in stereoscopic format into a photo album. I collected over 100 pairs of images.
A few weeks after returning home, the HDD on which I downloaded the images was compromised by boot sector corruption. The entire content became inaccessible. The story is longer, but I managed to recover a significant part of the data (running specialized software for 3 weeks), including ~50% of the stereoscopic pairs taken in the cave with two identical cameras placed in parallel (the data recovery software renamed the files from 01 to several tens of thousands...). This is one of the images that remained without a pair for 3D.
I think it will be interesting to see what solutions talented photographers can find in an attempt to balance the content of the image.🙂
Looking forward to your edits.
Here's the jpg:
And the RAW file (DNG) can be found here.
