Dock workers cleaning ship belly: A PostProd experiment

[Christoph C. Feldhaim]

This a b/w conversion from a Kodachrome with somewhat problematical tones: the foreground was quite underexposed, the background near white. After some twiddleing I decided to b/w convert it and do some individual tone adaptions using various layers and a lot of masks I was painting on. Its from my Istanbul series, but I post in in its own thread because its something different and a first attempt.
As a reference I added the relatively unaltered original Kodachrome scan.
 

[RSL]

Chris, Interesting stuff. Looks as if it came out of the late 1800s, maybe from the Titanic's birthplace at Belfast. Trying to deal with those tones must have been a bear, and it still isn't quite right. Some Upoint adjustments in Silver Efex Pro would help.