brightness and contrast

The quiet fall #4
Photo Information
Copyright: Mike Basil (mbasil) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 336 W: 149 N: 745] (3304)
Genre: Landscapes
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-10-28
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Edited by: Emma Taylor (Aramok) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 881 W: 101 N: 1410] (4895)
Edited Image Upload Date: 2006-10-30 08:06:05
Categories: Mountain, Sky
Camera: Nikon D50, Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6, Tiffen circular Polarizer
Exposure: 11, 1/250 seconds
Workshop Note
I've selected by hand certain areas of the rocks and with a feathering of 10 pixels increased the brightness and decreased the contast in the shadows and darker side of the rocks to bring out a little more detail and decreased the brightness and increased the contrast in the brighter parts of the foreground rocks.

I also straightened the picture a touch becuase all of the trees seemed to have a significant lean on them (this may actually be the case - I can imagine this being a wind swept area), but the photo just seemed to beneift from a slight rotation.

I have also increased the contrast in the main mountainside and decreased it in the smaller mounatin... again with a feathering effect on 10 pixels so that the 'join' can't be seen. then just added a little more saturation and ran an unsharp mask - about 10 mins work in total.

Normally everything but the unsharp mask would be done on the full size picture with a feathering of upto 200 pixels...

Hope you don't mind Mike

Emma
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