Post Processing - A Challenge

[DiG]

Ok, so there are many things still to learn about photography. But one area I have never done much in is post processing.

So I wanted to see what other people can do, in the hope of learning and improving my own skills! Here are two photos, how much better can you make them? I've included a jpeg and the original .dng to play with!

Image 1:

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Image 2:

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Looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with, thanks in advance for any time spent!

 

[DiG]

Very good replies so far, thanks guys

Paul11 - Like the different approach, changes the feeling of the image completely

asim18 - looks much better! The crop removes the distracting crowd, colours seems much nice. Presume you have used some blur filter in photoshop along the bottom?

If you could add a rough guide of what you have done to the image that would be great

Anyone else want to better these guys? lol

 

[DiG]

Just been reading this article here, very useful stuff that I didn't know before.

I've also discovered that wearing my glasses when doing sharpening helps massively, I was wondering why nothing seemed to be having any effect!