opened in cs2 camera raw
contrast, levels, brightness in camera raw
convert to tiff
shadows/hightlights
change to monochrome
gradient map
noise
sharpen
save for web
this photo was taken on the 40th anniversary of a mountain lifesaving company in the westpart of iceland.
i took the photos there for an icelandic newspaper, let's see if some of them will get published...;)
i was'nt sure, if should have rather put this photo in the contre-jour challenge, but i think it's way too much out-of-the-box for that challenge, so i put it in the free study...i really like this photo and the way, it came out after pp, so i won't really care about the score, it will get!
cheers
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Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning.