Rat did well. Adding the color is a good idea.
But, the man looks just a bit over-enhanced in his, almost as if he's been photoshopped into the scene. That's a risk any time you separate the elements of a picture and manipulate them separately. They end up looking different.
Thus far, I like Coop's best. But, I think he should lighten the pier just a bit as Rat did.
Adding the color is unclear to me. In some respects, I think I like the stark, almost black-and-white look/mood of the original. I like the look of the rugged-looking man with his jacket and boots and big sun glasses standing on the rugged, rocky pier with the white sky in the back giving a stark contrast. And then, the only bit of really bright color is the blue grafiti; the fact that you can't quite make out what it says is perfect.
Basically, I think that if you try to hard to get detail into this picture, which it has not, then you ruin it nature. If the camera gives you this sort of unclear, moody, constrasty picture, then that's what the result is gonna have to be.
I think if Coop can get a bit of fill flash onto that pier, then he's got it.
Oh, and that's exactly what the photographer should have done in the original picture: use a bit of flash. I know that we often think that flash is only for inside. But, it works great outside sometimes too. And with a digital, you can take one with flash and one without and just delete the one you don't like.
