Photo challenge - Make this picture better.

[TheGoofster]

I love editing photos, and I love looking at photo's that others have edited. So here's the challenge, take this not-so-great photo that I grabbed from a video I was taking, and make it look as good as possible.
Feel free to do anything with it, crop it, B&W it, add a frame or edging, change the color balance, etc... Just try to make it look as good as possible.
I hope some of you "good photographers" (meaning people who aren't me), will show me what you can do with a bad photo. I have my edited version already done, but I'll wait till later to post it. Hopefully we'll see some really interesting finished products.

so here's the photo:

 

[Furgus]

Can we have access to the original somewhere?

 

[TheGoofster]

I believe you should just have to right click on it, and save image as to get it onto your computer. I've done that before, and was able to use, edit, etc... pictures.

 

[IamErica]

here is an attempt..

 

[mickey2000]

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I cloned out everything but the castle, darkened the sky, cloned in some heads from another picture, changed the coloring on the castle, and drew in some fireworks. Oh, and I rezzed up the castle and drew in more detail.

 

[TheGoofster]

WOW Mark!!! Now that is some awesome editing.

I actually went a different direction, and focused more on the clock.
I cropped around it, changed the color to sepia(which helped a lot with the graininess), and added an edge around it , to give it more of an old-fashioned look, and finally I added a small frame.

Great job everyone!!! Anyone else?

 

[rtphokie]

The only place sharpening really blury, pixelated photos works is on 24. Straightened it, cleaned up the sky, and trying my hand at a tilt shift type thing:

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[SharonLowe]

Goofster - I hate to be mean but there is nothing in focus in the image you posted. So, how can it be "not-so-great" and how can you expect us to fix it? Mark's fix was great!

 

[TheGoofster]

Goofster - I hate to be mean but there is nothing in focus in the image you posted. So, how can it be "not-so-great" and how can you expect us to fix it? Mark's fix was great!

Ahh, but therein lies the challenge.
Like I mentioned before, it was a photo grab from a video (actually a moving video, thus the lack of good focus). I'm not expecting a "fix", but instead a "better" or more interesting picture (whatever form that may take). If it were a good picture to start off with, where would the challenge be.
Basically it's a throw-away kind of picture that has nothing to lose by being tampered with.

 

[VMK_MagicalLadee]

I cant edit worth my life. But, hey, No one's up yet, so why not try.

 

[Evad]

I went for an old newspaper look.

 

[TinksDH]

I cloned out everything but the castle, darkened the sky, cloned in some heads from another picture, changed the coloring on the castle, and drew in some fireworks. Oh, and I rezzed up the castle and drew in more detail.

Wow - looks like you changed the time on the clock on the castle while you were at it....

 

[MarkBarbieri]

It's all about the details. Since I was going for a night look, I had to adjust things like the time.

I do think I left off a step in my description. I copied in some elements from another picture to complete the look I was going for. It was a subtle but important step.

 

[jann1033]

the tim burton-ish version of WDW.....psychiatric assessment not necessary
sorry i spelled "you're" wrong and didn't see it till i flattened &closed it...
i resized it, mirrorized it posterized it liquifized it pasteurized it sanitized it homogenized it analyzed it frameized it and said "that's done".

 

[labdogs42]

Mark stole my idea, so i don't have to post now! My picture would have looked JUST like that!!