Restoring fossils

[DaveO]

   I took this picture at least 30 years ago of a woman cleaning dinosaur bones at Dinosaur National Park.  I tried to lighten the picture, but the darker original may look better.

[Tristin]

I prefer the original, the latter looks over-cooked.

[PeterN]

The first one puts more emphasis on what she is doing, which seems more appropriate because you are telling the story of bone-cleaning.

[John Geerts]

Yes, the first one is better to my view. Mainly because in the second version you try to 'recover' details which are not really there, and the blue hue is not helping and makes it a bit 'unnatural'.