Post-processing challenge #507 -- Winners announced

[Rob Rider]

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[relic]

Many thanks for all the people who submitted entries. The contest is now closed. I shall try to post results later today.

 

[relic]

I found it very hard to "judge" all those excellent entries. The challenge photo was especially bad in terms of colors/white balance and I had cropped the tail inadvertently. I had previously tried to "rescue" it but changing white balance or hue/saturation, etc. only resulted in a worse image. So I think all the entries are huge winners in comparison with my efforts. Yet I had to choose among the many excellent entries, and as the rules say, "As we all know, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder " which makes me a little less uncomfortable doing the judging

Winner: @Hendrik (2nd version because it has even less noise than entry #1). I liked the composition and the crop (especially that in the original the tail was cropped anyway) and I also liked the colors quite a bit.

1st runner up: @Rob Rider's 2nd entry.

2n runner up: @Fred S's only entry.

Thanks again for all the contributors and over to you @Hendrik.

 

[Hendrik]

Thanks for the win (I think) @relic. And here I had convinced myself that this time I was safe for having gone too far…

I'll rummage around and see what I can come up with for 508. Back in a bit.

 

[Hendrik]

Challenge #508 is live.

 

[relic]

And here I had convinced myself that this time I was safe for having gone too far…

That is what I tell myself everytime Unfortunately, it doesn't always work (even for me).