I like the conversion and as discussed before nfl it captures the effect you were after at the outset. The sand (in places) is a little bright and maybe the water at the right of the young lady :wink: but I think it is good.
Pat
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ps just an edit on a second look.. composition is excellent too from a reading point from left to right your eye starts at the mother catches the child and off to the right through the gap in the dunes…. excellent…
The conversion is just something I was messing about with… I was trying to replicate something that you might get off an old camera from the mid-70s with a somewhat over-processed look to it. Its a bit of a fluke to be honest but it just has something different about it that I liked.
I hear what you’re saying about the sand… might re-visit that one.
That’s a nice image there JP but you did, shall we say, go overboard with the dodge/burn tool I suspect. I’d only use 3-4% opacity on the dodge/burn tool to make subtle adjustments to images. It doesn’t always work but at least you can build a burn/dodge effect slowly.