Copyright Nathan Montgomery, 2008
Here's another example of photoshop improvement to a shot. Again, other than the obvious addition of the matting, I've mostly just boosted color and sharpened the image, but those subtle changes, which take about 3 minutes, can improve the shot a lot. Additionally here, I did clone out one dead leaf, and I should probably deal with a few other things, but for my purposes here, it's good enough.
I post both versions of these shots to demonstrate kind of the limits of how much I'm willing to manipulate an image. There's nothing wrong with doing more than this, of course, but it's just not for me. Play with the color balance, sharpen it a little, maybe adjust the shadows and highlights, but mostly, keep the picture I took.
2 comments:
I think that you could sell your shots...but even that wouldn't make a dent in the cost of the recommended equipment.
That is a great shot. It made me want to find that place so I could go for a run there.
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