Anothe raw conversion challenge

The raw file is here.
I have never been satisfied with my conversion. So please let me see your tries. The pic has been taken with a PowerShot S30, so you will not be able to use capture one for this file, but RSE, Adobe Camera Raw and BreezeBrowser will work.

Here's my "Quicky". 2 conversions, one warm, & one green. Blended in PS & sharpened a bit.
(As usual, I went a bit nuts! It helps to not have seen the original scene, so I have no pre-conceived idea of what it looked like!)

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Wow,. I love what you did with the water and horizon... that's really nice!

If you don't mind me saying.. I'm a little concerned though about the "warmth" of the cliff... could be my monitor though.

Thanks. The angle of the light reminded me of sunrise, so I just went with it. Next, "Moonrise"!

Just leaving the house but had to throw in my 5 minute creation first. I liked the buildings on the top so I tried to bring them out a bit as well as do a little with the horizon that was blown out in the original version. There are a few rough spots but I didn't spend much time.

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Here is my try at it!
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PhotosGuy wrote:
Here's my "Quicky". 2 conversions, one warm, & one green. Blended in PS & sharpened a bit.
(As usual, I went a bit nuts! It helps to not have seen the original scene, so I have no pre-conceived idea of what it looked like!)

very interesting effect !
looks like it is a landscape from another planet !
may be it could be even better with a little less contrast
(or may be it's my screen...)

good idea about the buildings
I like the atmosphere in your pic... something relaxing

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=Photo's by Mike]Here is my try at it!
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nice colors
just a little less light and it will deserve to be a postcard

I thought the sky was too close to the buildings, so I sort of added a bit of new sky instead.

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CyberPet wrote:
I thought the sky was too close to the buildings, so I sort of added a bit of new sky instead.

I agree, it's better with more sky !

but it seems to me there is too much contrast in the pic, or to much saturation in the colors...

I like the white balance you used, the colors are close to the real colors (with less saturation)

I love the contrast and saturation... sorry. I sometime goes overboard with it. But I was having "post card" in my mind for some reason. I made a fairly warm convertion (like I always do) and then I made an adjustment layer with photo filter (blue) and made a mask to mask out the warm cliff to cool the water to make the contrast bigger from the orange cliff and the blue water and sky. And then I went a bit crazy with the contrast and saturation sliders... but you can skip that part.

Going after the blue water

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Hi all

Here is my quick attempt. I just boosted the contrast and used selective levels.

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Even though this thread is a little dated I gave it a quick try in RSE:

seems imageshack doesn't won't to cooperate ...

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