Neva Palazzo (One photo - three versions. Quest for appealing monochrome)

(one photo - three versions)

I still havent got the time / energy to venture into processing of my captures from the recent boat trip across Neva river (620 files - 10 Gb - indeed, it will be a bit time consuming, haha!)

Today in the morning, before going to my office, I dragged one capture into Photoshop and made some clickes... actually there were many clicks cause my captures turned out wrong. See, I tried to use my newly-ortained Circular Polar filter, but did not succeeded. Except of getting juicy and saturated captures I got it pale and overexposed... which does not make the processing easy, fast and resulting good.

The 1st picture is a mix of manually edited layers.

The 2nd one I used some pre-settings for B-W conversion in the current Photoshop Camera Raw version I have. Still not 'one click and push it to production, go go go', but it was faster and less efforts... and I rather say I am after this version after all - it has some smooth and vintage / retro feeling.

And here is the original capture (just slightly edited to save as jpg). Which editing version you would prefer best? I would really appreciate your pick and share Hive PIZZA with you... as always.

Thanks for walking with me, see you next time.

All images taken by me, copyright (c) @qwerrie

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