This is a shot I took for a friend of mine and his daughter when she came up to stay with him during the summer. There's a bit of processing to this, but I like the end result. (All pp done using the GIMP.)
PP-
rotate 90 deg CW
clone out hot pixel
crop excess background
layers->copy bg
sat +25, contrast +25
overlay mode, 50% opacity
flatten image
layers->copy bg
convert to B/W using channel mixer
normal mode, 100% opacity
->copy converted B/W layer
colorize (hue 29, sat 48, light 32)
curves
contrast -25
levels
grain merge mode, 33% opacity
flatten image
layers->copy bg
sat +50, contrast -15
selective Gaussian blur
normal mode, 50% opacity
flatten image
crop
scale
slight USM
save
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nicely done, yes, but, all the same, this type of image makes me wonder what it is about this one image that stood out to you as your best of the year.
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