Ohio Landscape

[ldenne]

So i was riding in the car (yes i took the photo while my dh was driving 55mph) shocked that it turned out. I edited it using Lightroom3 - trying to decied if i like that one or photoshop before i buy the edited one is first then the unedited second. always willing to take advice too
Used a Nikon D3100 with a 55mm focal length with a 55-200mm lens ISO at 100 Exposure 1/320 sec at f /9.0 flash did not fire
I adjusted the brightness and color tones along with croping (esp since i had the date stamp on) I mostly was playing around with the sliders in the lightroom editing section




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[Quo Fan]

I would have spent the time cloning out the date stamp, and done most of the edits you did. The fact that the horizon is almost off the image bothers me. I'm seeing excessive redness in the grass in the center of the picture. Could this be edited out?

[skylinedrive]

Wow that is quite an improvement! I absolutely love the color in the after version. If I had taken that photo, I would have never thought it could be turned into something that pretty. You've inspired me!

[Tito87]

I like how the sky looks. The bottom part, not so much-- I think you can tone down the colors just a bit, and don't go crazy with the cropping. Just my two cents.

[ldenne]

Thanks for the suggestions - So i did some adjustements and worked on cropping out the date so that there would be more ground coverage in the photo and reduced the red in the gound coverage - though the sky doesn't have as much pink more of a light blue hue in it either though i kinda like it too

[dj-dubai]

very nice work u don`t very good work it is very nice shot

[Tito87]

It looks a lot better by keeping more of the ground in the picture.

[woltersk]

Lauren,
The second edit is much better. The colors in the first made for a broiling, 'angry sky', and the shadowy ground made it seem like a scene from a sci-fi movie just before the alien spaceship breaks through the clouds and touches down.

Your post-post changes look natural and not overdone. I agree with skylinedrive--I would not have thought that the original could be transformed like that! I'll have to revisit some of my 'plainer' shots and see if they can come out as well as yours did.

Thanks for sharing!

Keith