Post production help please!!!!

[bapp]

Anyone have any ideas on how I could give thins image a little more Ooommph (yes that is a technical term)?

I'm just a little stumped, I don't want to go over board with P.S but I feel it is lacking something. It might be fine as it is, I think I'm having a little creative block.

Anyway any thoughts appreciated!

B.

 

[Rabieshund]

Maybe something like this?

Duplicated layer
Shadow/highlights, opacity to 28%
Some contrast with curves, masked away from the dark parts of the grass and the clouds to keep some information
Pulled saturation up +17
Made a gradient in the sky to get rid of some noise and some more tone variation there
Made a black to transparent gradient in the sky, set to softlight, opacity 54%

This was a really quick edit but I think it was pretty ok. There is still some noise in the sky though.

 

[bapp]

Thanks mate I ended up using a black gradient for the sky and just playing with the individual RBG curves, i was looking for more of a cold cinematic feel, although urs looks good!!

 

[Rabieshund]

Ok! Looks pretty nice. You have gotten a halo around her head though, probably due to the gradient. And try running it through NeatImage or a similar program to get rid of some noise in the sky.

 

[RKW3]

Is that noise or compression?

 

[bapp]

Ok cheers Martin, I did notice the Halo but didnt think it was that obvious, I'll have to sort it out!