I took this a little over six years ago. This abandoned farm is about a mile away from where I live. This is the SOOC shot. You've got a lot to work with here.
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My view of country life.
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My view while giving credit to this weeks photographer.
Thanks for this nice photo and a chance to edit it. Here is my view
Here's my take on this shot
Nice image to play around with. Thanks.
Not Better, just different.
I actually worked on this. It looked a bit muddy to me, and nothing I knew to do would take that away. How does one do that? I upped the exposure and contrast and clarity, but it didn't do enough.
AzPicLady wrote:
....It looked a bit muddy to me, and nothing I knew to do would take that away. How does one do that?.....
The original was dark and you probably added quite a lot of exposure to it but it really needed more. The same is probably true of Contrast and Clarity. I think we have a tendency to be influenced by the starting point, and if it's dark we tend to underestimate how much lifting it needs. Likewise if the starting point is flat, soft, colourless or whatever.
It's a good sign that you underestimated in that way because it shows a reluctance to overdo things. However, restraint itself can be overdone and we can end up not pushing hard enough with an image that needs a lot of pushing. Sometimes I don't realise that I've fallen victim to that tendency until I see other people's edits or until I've walked away from the edit then come back to it. The annoying version is when you don't realise that's what's happened until after you've posted it
. Sometimes I need to push myself to push the edit.
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