Martin Newland, QPSA
About the Image(s)
I was with a group of photography friends visiting the Mount Remarkable National Park located in the mid north of South Australia. We were driving into the township of Melrose for dinner when this vivid sunset developed. We stopped to photograph it, but there was very little of interest to add to the foreground. Only this barbed wire fence along the roadside.
Post treatment: Cropped, saturation increased, shadows darkened. Fence posts and barbed wire were sharpened pixel by pixel by zooming in with Photoshop then cloning out any blur around the posts and the barbs with the clone tool (probably about 2-3 hours work). Sharpened and "denoised" with Topaz Denoise AI
Camera: Canon 5D Mk3, 1/50 sec, f/4.0, ISO 100
Lens: Canon EF 24 - 105 f/4 IS USM at 24mm
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11 comments posted
(Group 48)
  Posted: 05/05/2021 12:24:33
(Group 40)
Well done with what you had to work with. I love it!
I had to enlarge the original image to see why you darkened all except the sky. Then it became clear when I saw a person and a roadbed.
The ONLY distracting part is the lack of sharpness to the foreground grasses, but I certaily understand the 'why" behind that.
Nice effort!   Posted: 05/09/2021 20:32:10