Nice Landscape in Israel

[hotrocks]

Well here it goes:

Before:

After:

Yep, I took a picture of clouds and merged it in there....also did a curves color correction in RGB, converted to LAB to help the grass and the sky brighten up, back to RGB...a b/w gradient map on luminosity.....umm...unsharp mask....and some other stuff i forgot

wadda ya think?

[catleclerc]

Well the after picture is certainly more interesting although I'm not sure I would have pushed the saturation quite that far. Depends the effect you're after, but the grass doesn't look natural...

Overall great job tough

[cwphotography]

IMO, the first one looks dull. The 2nd shot looks fake.
The first one, nothing pops, nothing stands out to me. I know it's landscape and I love landscape photos but it doesn't stand out to me. The 2nd shot, I think it's to much contrast and the clouds don't look like they belong there.

[hotrocks]

yeah it does look a little fake on the monitor but on nice glossy paper it looks fine

[embrodak]

It's a cute shot, but there are two large problems with it: first, clouds don't do that near a horizon (which is why it looks strange on land that is relatively flat), and secondly, there really isn't a point of interest that draws the eye strongly. The only exception is that pond, but it's on the edge of the photograph and cut of. Everything else seems pretty bland. If that road is special to you, you might want to find another way to bring out what makes it so special. The post-processing is overdone, especially on the sky. The original photo has lots of potential in it, if you can find a way to bring out a point of interest!

[richardpsic]

I like the idea of putting clouds, but I think this ones are kinda overexposed. The rest is perfect.

[southernbelle]

I like the after shot! I know it looks a little fake, but I like it a lot!