Mount Hood

[Synthea]

We were at the VA hospital tonight visiting my dad and I wanted to get a picture of Mt Hood as it was actually visible (not so much smog or rain it was invisible), I had to take the shot on my measley S2 IS through heavy thick glass on the 9th floor, so I'm surprised it turned out this well! Ways to improve it in photoshop would be greatly appreciated. It was cropped square, the original was way off center.

[Murtasma]

I may try cropping just above the crane in the forground. Also did you try a UV filter or a polizer to help cut through some of the haze around the mountian top. I live the suttle colors in this image but I bet you could take them up to something a little more vibrant. I like the depth in the image and the rolling hills near the peak.

Over all I like this image, I really wonder if a UV or polizer may have helped cut through the haze a little, since a polarizer needs to work at 90 deg from the source of light it may have not worked in this image but a UV filter probably would have helped a little.

Nice work keep on posting

[windrider86]

I agree with Murtsama about the crane. You could bring the colors up a notch but I think sometimes subtle sometimes says even more
Hope your dad is ok

[bigdoggold]

First off Mt. Hood is beautiful. I am from Connecticut but I have family in Oregon...I've been there 12 times it's a beautiful state with such drastic terrain...I like the colors in the image..I would crop out the crane.

You might try increasing the saturation a little bit, to have those nice colors come out a little more.

Nice snap for through a glass window!!!!

[Synthea]

Thanks for the feedback!
Here's some editing I did on it, I blurred the sky to fix the worst of the graininess, cropped it, lowered the brightness and upped the contrast and played with the color balance a bit. More C&C welcome!