The dome of the Colorado State Capitol was plated with 24 karat, locally mined gold, in 1908 to commemorate the gold rush that began in 1859. There's more about the history of the capitol building here: //www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/cap/gold.htm
crop
select color range: highlights, new layer (sky layer)
sky layer: erase portions that belong to building, leave only sky
sky layer: brightness -45
sky layer: color balance: midtones: -41/0/100; highlights: 9/0/11
sky layer: hue/sat: Magenta 28/-16/0
flatten image
adj layer: curves (turn down highlights, deepen color)
adj layer: hue/sat: master: 0/20/0; yellow: 0/30/0
adj layer: levels: input 0/.85/223, output 0/235
Unsharp Mask: 50/5/2
Flatten image
Neat Image
Cloning in sky to correct hue artifacts & remove a couple branches at left edge
Adj Layer: Contrast 10
New Layer: just the dome (dome layer)
Dome layer: hue/sat: yellow: 0/+60/0; all other channels: 0/-30/0
Bg layer: hue sat: yellow: 0/-80/0; all other channels 0/-30/0
Resize to 640
Unsharp Mask 50/3/2
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The second time I've seen this photo in this challenge but I'm not gonna be a nice cuz its a double. Its a very crisp and clean image with amazing detail and I can see you took the time to do that but why wouldn't you take the time to straighten the building??? A 1 or 2 degree CW rotation would have increased the score huge. I'd also suggested darkening the sky a bit to bring out the gold in the top of the building instead of having it look high key or over contrasted (which haoppens with that color sky). I might have also use a brightening tool on the trees to bring out the green more to complete the photo. Well done and good luck in this challenge. <6>
Probably would have scored an <8> had the building been straight. (yes it bothered me that much)
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