New shot. C&C welcome.

[v1c70r]

Here's a new shot from today...let me know what you think.

 

[Kerbouchard]

It could use a white balance adjustment, an exposure adjustment, and a curves adjustment to increase contrast.

If I were taking this shot, I would have used a faster shutter speed/smaller aperture to properly expose the sky, and then used a flash to expose the scarecrow. As it is, the washed out sunset just makes me think about what this shot could have been.

 

[jgooz]

was about to say pretty much the same, im not a pro in ps or anything and i havent played with curve layers much but if you play with enough sometimes you help the WB a little,

i hope you dont mind me playing around a little with your photo but this is sort of what i meant

 

[Kerbouchard]

was about to say pretty much the same, im not a pro in ps or anything and i havent played with curve layers much but if you play with enough sometimes you help the WB a little,

i hope you dont mind me playing around a little with your photo but this is sort of what i meant

You made his shirt pink instead of blue...I'm thinking somewhere in between. ;-)

 

[jgooz]

oops hehe, well i said i wasnt real good with it yet, although in my defense it was white in ps lol. this monitor is a POS too

 

[Kerbouchard]

This is how I would have edited it...

 

[jgooz]

did you use a warming filter on it too or just curves adj

 

[Kerbouchard]

Open in Camera Raw, white balance correction, exposure correction, targeted curves adjustments, then a resize and slight sharpen. To be honest, I played around with the sky for a bit hoping I could recover something, but ended up giving up.

What warmed it up was a targeted curves adjustment on the grass and I bumped vibrance up a bit...I felt like it was a sunset shot, so we should give those greens a bit more pop and I felt the photo should be a bit warmer. Just my take on it, though.

 

[Kerbouchard]

Sorry, v1c70r, looks like our editing kind of hijacked your thread. Sorry about that.

 

[v1c70r]

Oh, it's quite alright. Thanks for taking so much time to go in depth about what you were talking about. I agree with everything you guys said. It's pretty funny because when I got home I said the same thing about the picture. "Dang it, I should went with a smaller aperture." Oh well, one day I will put it all together.