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Experiment #9 or #9,000

Part of the reason for posting here is to get feedback on the process and to do that you need to show your work.

#1 is a pretty ordinary HDR cloud image. Shot in color with my D850 this afternoon, it is essentially monochrome even with the saturation turned up. Nice enough, but I thought I'd fool with it some. In another version, I turned the saturation up past the point of clipping but that looked awful and was discarded. I decided to abandon objective realism.

#2 is an unedited (unrepaired or unretouched) B&W studio picture I took of my then-girlfriend back in 1968. 35mm Tri-X, 50mm lens, Mamiya-Sekor 500DTL. I haven't seen her in more than fifty years. Assuming she is still around somewhere, I don't think she'll mind me sharing this.

#3 layers #1 with a small section of #2. I colorized both layers independently with Photoshop's neural colorization filter. I inverted #2 so it was a negative. There was some interaction on the left side between the layers that I could not resolve, so after I merged the layers I retouched it out of existence with AaKVIS Retoucher. Finally, I made some minor hue and saturation adjustments.

At this point, I thought things were weird enough not to require a funky border.

While this would not have been impossible back in the pre-Photoshop days, it would have been extremely difficult and way beyond my humble capabilities. If someone was doing this sort of thing in color, I don't know who it would have been. Even Jerry Uelssman always worked in B&W.

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