Connie Reinhart
About the Image(s)
Our Camera Club has an annual competition with another club. It is a scavenger hunt with 7 subjects to find. One is a B&W landscape. Running through our town is a glacial moraine that is referred to as “Stony Ridge”. The ridge is several miles long, and the rock formations are amazing. This one with the blue sky, green leaves, and brown rocks is best left as a color image. Applied Topaz AI Clear to just the rock at the bottom; depth of field was too shallow to get good focus there. Then used Topaz Precision Contrast to adjust the contrast. HSL Color Tuning was used mostly for the blues and greens, but it enriched the color of the rocks also. Used NIK Graduated Neutral Density filter to darken the rocks at the bottom in order to emphasize the tree. Then, because my monitor is very bright, I added a brightness/contrast adjustment layer with brightness at +30%.
This round’s discussion is now closed!
8 comments posted
I do feel the foreground is a bit busy and the out of focus boulder at the bottom doesn't add to the image. As an example edit, I did some cloning across the out of focus area and pulled in different parts of the foreground to clean it up a little. I also cropped a bit off the bottom and a little from the right side as well, hoping to bring a bit more focus to the tree. I also slightly desaturated the blue of the sky.
Again, just an example of how you could continue to play with this photo if you wanted to. I also like Witta's suggestion that a little bit of a different angle might be nice. Something to consider for a future outing!   Posted: 05/15/2022 13:09:29