Exercise 23: Selective processing and prominence

This last exercise asks to select one image that I have already taken for an earlier project, an image in which the issue is the visual prominence of a figure in a setting and use the digital processing methods that I have available to make two new versions of this image.
In one, make the figure less prominent, so that it recedes into the setting.
In the second, do the opposite, by making it stand out more.
Possible selective adjustments are to brightness, contrast, even colour intensity.
The actual technique will depend on the processing software used.

Image 1.

f 8, 1/60 sec, ISO 400, 55 mm 

Image 1 has been post-edited with Light Room in order to make the subject less prominent.
The white point and the black point of the overall image has been adjusted, the contrast increased at 22 and the exposure at +0.25.
Thanks to the "adjustment brush" I have been able to correct locally the image.
The clarity in the area of the two lovers has been decreased to -18, the contrast to -69.

Image 2.

f 8, 1/60 sec, ISO 400, 55 mm 

Image 2 has been post-edited with Light Room in order to make the subject more prominent.

The white point of the overall image has been adjusted and the shadows have been opened.

Thanks to the "adjustment brush" I have been able to correct locally the image.

The clarity in the area of the subjects has been increased to 61, the contrast to 47 and the exposure at +1.