I was looking through my back archive of 2015 images and ran across the image below. I could see why I never bothered to process it; it was more of a scouting or sketching image than anything else. However, its lack of colour and tonal variation made me wonder what colours and dynamic range might lurk in the RAW file, even with this difficult image.
So, idle curiosity moved the image into Lightroom’s development module, and after some tweaking and masking, the following image was the result.
I then pushed the image through two of NIKs processing engines, Viveza and Colour Effects Pro, which resulted in the image below.
I also ran across an under-exposed image taken a little while later that day that I processed that day with the limited software options I had at that time.
