Your ideas are pretty good, but you should be more patient and thorough with processing. There's too much noise, and the horizontal is bit crooked for the first two shots. I also looked through your gallery briefly and saw the same problem. Your extractions are rough. I like your ideas though.
The first one is nice, real nice but it is a bit noisy. (No pun intended) Whats with the Jpeg though? (Sorry, never shot in raw before )
Hey guys, can you define noisy. To me noise is when shooting in low light and the image gets a little pixelated etc but dont have any of that in the first image.....
Made two copies of the original colour shot. Did one in black and white and recloned the colour grass over the BW shot....