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This is brilliant. How did you get those colors? It looks like HDR.
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Thanks very much, Don! No, it's not an HDR. I was very much impressed with the dramatic clouds that day, so I used a polarizer filter to emphasize the blue sky and contrast there, I must admit to some post processing in Elements (I'm just learning that software). I use RAW almost exclusively, so that a great deal of information is present in the image file. First, I added fill light in the RAW converter to bring out detail in the lower part of the photo. After converting, I selectively darkened the sky to emphasize the clouds (I hope I didn't overdo it). And a few other minor tweaks. Anyway, it's quite a bit different from the way it first came out of the camera, but this image seems to be the way I remember the scene. I wish that there was some object in he immediate foreground, but I was standing at the top of a 50 foot observation tower
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(I hope I didn't overdo it).
I think you did.
Even allowing for my monitor being 6 years old.
But check it against one of Zig's landscapes.
It may be the way you selected the sky, but it looks like it is kind of 'cut and paste'.
Having said that it depends what effect you want, but IMO it is not realistic.
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Thanks for your welcome input, NT! I think now that the photo isn't quite the way I would like it. I'm still learning some of the subtleties of the software. I guess I have a long way to go. However, the possibilities are very exciting to me......Dennis