Lets see what you can do with this image. It was a hazy day and taken through a moving car window, but I feel the subject matter has a lot of potential. DSCF4051.RAF (25.1 MB)
My take using RawThrapee Dev
Oh, man. This image has made me lose faith in everything I thought I had learned over the past few weeks. Everything I try with the colors looks green. And when I try to add contrast and clarity, it just looks more washed out.
Maximalistic RawTherapee version. When playing with Retinex I found a sensor spot around pixel 3400/650, diameter 200 pixels.
Just played around with some functions I never used before
Another one that I had missed!
I tried to bring emphasis to the bridge. Filmulator (default values) then into GIMP. In GIMP I used a plug-in which creates 10 equal, independent, masked luminosity layers (almost zones, but with a slight overlap). The bridge was darkened and it’s background slightly lightened. The sky and the water were darkened and the saturation reduced. Scaled and sharpened with wavelet decompose.
I am sure there may be simpler ways of producing the same result.
This photograph I think benefits from a hint of colour, rather than being totally greyscale.