Salvaging A Bad Shot? Critique time.

[BillFrey]

Hi,

There's enough detail in the photo to do just about anything

I played with levels/curves and selective color to achieve this one.

[Cassidy]

Alan, the 2nd image and the artistic one looks great. Hard to know what you were actually seeing at the time.

Had to have a go if you don't mind

Did a white to transparent gradient and overlaid to lighten the foreground, merged the layers and duplicated the image before running a heavy highpass overlay on the image.

[Shadd]

Though I’d put a slightly softer feel with this one.

[u2chin]

hmm, dont even remember exactly what I did ><

cleaned up the exposure, cropped, balanced the colors, and then added the sunlight, burned all over the place, and contrast here n there. I just added what I thought was missing as I went along =P