Help, How Do I Fix This?

[Shelley S.]

First off, I know the clouds look fake, but the look like that in the original too (maybe not quite focused?). Also, is there a way to get the horizon straight? I guess when I was shooting this photo, I was trying to get the stalk and pot straight and never paid attention to the horizon line...looks like it's going uphill.

The first shot is the original, the second I've touched up the colours, contrast and maybe sharpness. As I look at the second shot again, it seems to me the sky looks too blue...

[zappo]

Hm this will be quite hard, is the image already cropped? Problem is, if you straighten the horizon line you will loos quite a bit of the photo.

As for the sky, yes too blue. Maybe selectivly desaturate it a little bit.

[castman]

I like the way the sky is so blue! I think to get it straight I would use PP and make a line between the the to hills fix it. I think you a nice photo with out doing it but it may make it better.

Rob

[Shelley S.]

No, there was no cropping done to this photo. I guess it's one of those learning ones - pay attention to backgrounds, etc., lol. I only used a point & shoot digital camera for this one as I didn't have my Pentax K200 at the time. I think I may have zoomed in on it, trying to get it to fill as much of the frame as I could...

[windrider86]

I dont think its that big a deal to tell you the truth. The stalk is straight up and down so if you were to move the horizon, the stalk would then be at an angle.
I do have to be honest that I'm not so fond of the bright blue. If you could find a happy medium between the 2 skies I think it might look more natural

[Jamfke]

You do lose a little when it's straightened, but it doesn't hurt the rest of the image much. Hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of straightening it to see how it looks. I used the second image with the water mark, so it looks a little odd with that.