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'3 Pictures, 3 Different Filters; Which Looks Best?'

To me:

1. looks too green. That's the "storm is a comin" photo.

3. looks like "one h3ll of a storm is comin".... as in tornado.

And 2. looks like "a nice spring day".... CAFB. Well, almost. Maybe CAB. ;)
 
All three of em look overdone to me. What era photo are you going for?

Here's a couple of reworks of your 3 (was the easiest for me to get back to what my mind thought the original might've looked like).
3copy2 is the "corrected" image that I started with. Just a bunch of tweaking on the channel mixture to "green the greens" and "blue the blues" a little. Also removed the lens vignetting.
3copy is 3copy2 with an 81 filter @ 30% applied.

Neither one is the best looking since the tweaks got a little funked by the JPEG artifacts. Not sure my monitor is in calibration right now either, I left my Huey down at the farm while tweaking mom's new rig last weekend.
That black blob down at the bottom makes it kinda hard too.
 
To me, #2 (in the first post) has a old/early color film, family camera type look to it. A casual snapshot, with a consumer grade camera from the 50s maybe.
 
Hey All,

Panther Number 1 if you want to preserve something - number two for an old snapshot. I'll try HDRin this for fun later but I have to say - what on earth is the point of this picture? The composition is simply baffling as to purpose - all I can think is it means something to the photographer which is fair enough and perfectly OK - otherwise why bother?

- From a composition perspective - the horizon is level - good.
- The subject matter is exactly in the middle (vertically) of the picture - bad.
- The road ends right exactly in the middle of the picture and what is there but a gate - bad (maybe?).
- The shadow in the foreground is totally distracting - bad.

If this is from a digital camera at high resolution try cropping - high and low. Maybe a right side crop would add interest. Maybe a panorama like view is what you want. I don't know as I don't see a purpose (what you are trying to capture) to this image.

No offense - you know that - just an honest opinion. If you don't want it - Sorry!

-Ed-
 
I like pic number 2 because it has that post-apocolyptic look seen in all the really good flesh-eating zombie movies. Run, scream, hide! The SOH Zombies are coming for you!!!!!!

OBIO
 
Tks folks.....The story of the pictures is rather simple...

While dropping off a co-worker to get his transmission fixed, the view of the abandoned railroad tracks going the closed gate caught my eye. So I decided "what the heck!".

I then pulled out my iPhone, set up my software to take a vintage yellow, vintage warm, and a low saturation picture & then I snapped away :)
 
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