Working with textures and B/W conversion.

[daremekiddy]

I am going to share how I processed this image :
1st.jpg to this
The first thing that I did it was correcting the white balance. And by the way I use a combination of Lightroom, Photoshop and onOne pulign.And then I exported it to Photoshop for further editing. I used Photolooks plugin from onOne softwares to really bring out the clouds. As you can see there is excessive noise associated with this.
after detailing.jpg
We will tackle that later. And now for the B/W conversion, I used a Red filter and some tweaking to make the foreground black. And after that I added a yellowish tint to the image and a texture. I set the blending option to overlay or multiply ( I forgot ) and used the curves tool to add some contrast. And the Final Image :

[nikosdp]

Thank you very much! Even the first image is very good as a start.