Jerome Love
New member
I was in Washington earlier this month for some weddings and took a few scenic shots while I was out. C&C are welcomed.
Hi Jerome,
Good to do pictures for your soul between pictures for bread on the table!
Both images show layered landscape features from foreground trees, over flat lend, to distant tree-covered hills and beyond that to successive overlapping ever-softer hills.
The first picture has impressive cloud structure, unfortunately impaired, on my screen at least, by blown highlights. If that is really true, look to recovering that end from Camera RAW 4, photoshop or LR using shadow recovery tools.
The tree in the foreground of the first picture and and probably in the second too, are cut of at the trunk. While a branch running into the bottom of a frame often anchors images well, a trunkless tree is almost always distraction (unless a compositional element).
Also, if there is more to the frame extending the lower border, I'd revisit this area to perhaps add more of the tree trunks with surrounding grass detail.
I do like both images, but the second especially. I'd work on this one more and make maximum use of the extensive tonalities here. This is, I believe, a perfect picture for trying LightZone!
Asher
Hi Jerome,I'm not familiar with "copy image to top layer mask" , do you mean a clipping mask? Also, could you explain you're curve adjustments?