This weeks torturous Post Procession Challenge #373 has ended. Perhaps a tad too difficult for some, judging by the relatively low number of submissions this week. Albeit some did experience download difficulties of the original files, so maybe it's not down to me.
My special thanks go to those that did choose to grasp the nettle, I hope you enjoyed the challenge.
The shot was from a real world scenario, where the client wanted night as well as the normal daytime offerings.
This image presented some special difficulties, over and and above the norm... namely massive dynamic range, low light noise and mixed light sources causing some colour balance issues.
The resultant submissions were all quite different in their approach, especially with the colour balance, some blue, some magenta, some orange. I therefore had an unfair advantage... by actually being there, I could actually colour manage the image to what I saw (as this is what the client would also expect to see).
So for me this weeks winner is Fdooch whose colours are the most pleasing and who also mentioned the need for some detail removal/cropping.
For those interested I will post here my version...