Would've loved to have a different sky! Seems there's always a cyan sky lately. Would've preferred a dark blue or better yet menacing clouds. No such luck.
Usual editing... Crop, levels, increase saturation, photo filtered the sky at #80, 75%. Reajusted the colors a bit, then resized, USM x 2, NI and saved for web.
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Colors look a little over saturated to me. It could work as a painterly effect, except for the sky. As you've already noted, the sky is big, and empty. Unfortunately clouds to not appear on command.
I wonder what this would have looked like at sunrise or sunset. With the current lighting, it looks a bit flat.
Since the sky was not your friend this day, I would recommend less of it. A tighter crop, and closer in to emphasize the tree might have helped. I would suggest leaving the gate in, and cropping before the fence dissapears. As is, the line of the fence leads the eye down the hill and away from the subject.
like my image, with such sparse details it is easy to go overboard on the USM and get haloing at the skyline. A bit of dodging in the sky would have lent more interest to the pure tone of the sky.
this looks over sharpened and theres some haloing on the tree. nice simple scene. while looking at the lines, I notice that the hill is falling towards the viewer, but the fence is going away. to me the scene looks like it should be levelled but I think it's only because of those crossing lines.
Oversharpened is the biggest problem with this photo. Second to that is the mass of unappealing sky sominating the photo. I do like the fence posts or whatever they are lining the ridge. I think this might have worked quite a bit better if either shot closer to the tree or cropped so that the tree is muc larger and the sky is much less prominent. Something is wrong with the colors here as well. The composition itself, while as unoriginal as the other photos exactly like this one in the challenge, is technically correct so your eye is working for you in that regard. Hope these comments are helpful.
lotta red appears in this image on my monitor (however I'm on laptop). I like the composition. just not sure about the flat pale turquoise of sorts sky, moss green ground with red (think might be dead brown grass?) gl in challenge :-)
Sometimes the sky does not cooperate. I think a little deeper blue would have helped. But then again, what do I know ;-) It has a feeling of paucity about the photo.
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