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 5th.
As always, you can vote during the entire contest plus one day after the image submission deadline.
I'll post reminders.
The Image:
How time flies!
In 2015 we made a road trip around Scotland. What a fantastic place for landscape photography!
I can remember telling my family, often in enthusiastic terms, about the fantastic light up here in the North.
They told me that I had already mentioned that a few times before😉
North of Glasgow, travelling on the A82 up towards Glencoe, at somewhere along the road close to Loch Ba, I suddenly noticed some more great light reflecting on this body of water. So seemed like a good time for another quick photo stop.
The standard shot turned out OK, but maybe by combining the bracketed shots here you can increase the dynamic range and make it generally better.
This is a "3 RAW image" exposure bracketed shot to challenge your editing skills.
I'm posting here only the underexposed version as a jpg. Maybe one of the other RAW images would be a better starting point, or you could try your favourite HDR program, or use your "photoshop type" skills to combine all 3 images and get the best part from each of the images combined all into one final result.
Here is a link to the 3 RAW files:
