Day After Day, Alone on a Hill

Fefe (e2 Member)

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15 May 2012 - 10:40 AM

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Great shot, love the comp and grass, it almost looks like astro turf I have done two mods for you, The first in colour, I rotated a bit to take the curve into the corner of the image, I slightly altered the colour adding a touch of red that gave a bit more drama to the sky, gave a touch of contrast and brightness and then altered the graduation curves of the histogram slightly to add more drama to the sky then a little sharpen last of all. I have also done a mono version, after converting to mono I aded a tiny bit of red and blue to give a slight hue to the B&W. Hope you like them
Nice image
Diane

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Steve-T (e2 Member)

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15 May 2012 - 4:55 PM

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Single tree on a hill - can see why you wanted to capture it! Your problem with a high contrast B&W is that green goes grey in B&W. Your sky blue (?) has too much green in it and therefore is becomes muddy when converted. So the solution is - make your blues blue with a simple colour balance adjustment (see first mod) - blue will then move towards black in B&W when a red filter is applied. Then to further separate the sky and the grass go one further than the red filter and apply an infared filter - this sends greens towards the white end of spectrum. Make further shifts with curves, perhaps a bit of diffuse glow add some grain for moodiness and you get my mod - not sure if this is what you were trying to do but I enjoyed having a go Steve.

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