Boy in britches with hiking stick examining the ground. Anyone see that in the bottom left corner? 
I had fun playing with this image. Enjoy!
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PhotoFlow
– Export unbounded linear ACES. -
gmic
– Correct negative and hot pixels.
– Convert to B&W, smooth shadows. How I handled this step determined the overall look of the image. I spent the most time here trying different things and tweaking the result.
– Equalize local histograms. Quite slow on my machine: about 6 minutes.
– Curve to brighten image and preserve highlights.
– Reintroduce color information.
– Prep for sharing (resize, fp to jpg).
Edit: I didn’t put much thought into the color step. Just reintroduced the colors. Here is the B&W version. Which do you prefer?
