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[CoolMoon]

I took this photo on a hike to Waterfall Canyon above Ogden Utah. As it turns out it was the only photo of this rock outcroping and I wanted to try to clean it up. What might you do with this?

1 is the original resized to 800x600

2 is sharpend and a little green saturation

3 is converted using sharpen, channel mixer, color burn and soft light layer

Thank you for your time

Dave
Comments and Critique allways welcome

 

[BuS_RiDeR]

What about a vertical crop of this image?

 

[CoolMoon]

It does get rid of the cluter, I like it. Also the black border helps alot.

Thanks
Dave

 

[pbelarge]

I came upon a very similar outcrop in Vermont.
Too much growth around it to make it work in a photo the way I saw it.

I am going back with a chainsaw this fall.:mrgreen:

 

[Morpheuss]

i like bus rider's edit of the photo very nice.

 

[Tank]

Definitely leave it color. You lose the rock to the trees in the B/W version. I went B/W crazy myself recently and it didn't really do justice to a lot of the photos I took. I agree with BusRider's edit, also, maybe add a little saturation, not too much, though. Just my .02:thumbup:

 

[LaFoto]

A minor idea that's springing to mind, after I've seen your colour edit: when you want to enhance the greens, don't up the green saturation, but the yellow. That's been my experience - for me it was play with the sliders, trial and error, and now I feel that it is the yellow element of greens in nature that you want enhanced. Not the green ones. Makes green look fake and sort of plasticky.

 

[CoolMoon]

Here it is sharpened and with Yellow saturation also stmaped out the white glare in the middle.

Dave