Why is this so terrible.....

[JustJazzie]

Keith: thanks for the book suggestions! I'm downloading the free one now, and I'll check my library for the others!

 

[JustJazzie]

But you would have the before and after photo. AND get instructions on how to get there.

All right all right Astro. You win.

I didn't read the comments.

I think it just had too much road.

I'm bored at work and decided to give it a lick in Lightroom.

This is about 5 minutes tweaking on it.

I think it's a lovely image

This is definitely a vast improvement. Can you please tell me what you did?

 

[astroNikon]

Keith: thanks for the book suggestions! I'm downloading the free one now, and I'll check my library for the others!

FREE!!

downloaded it too
:thumbup:

 

[TWright33]

This is definitely a vast improvement. Can you please tell me what you did?

Here you go

 

[JustJazzie]

I mean the road is nice but it leads to nothing.

Thanks for chiming in. However, I was under the impression that the road was leading to the mountain. Perhaps a higher vantage point like another poster suggested would help make that more apparent.

 

[JustJazzie]

This is definitely a vast improvement. Can you please tell me what you did?

Here you go
View attachment 77954

Thanks! now I just have to go translate that into aperture terms. :Giggle:

 

[JustJazzie]

If I post an original, would someone be willing to help me from scratch?

 

[TWright33]

I can help you. I don't have aperture, but there is nothing that I have done that can't be done in any other program.

 

[a_auger]

Here's my attempt using Lightroom 5.3:


The crop is pretty obvious, although I left a little more of the road in there than TWright...
As for general tweaks to the image, I kicked up the exposure a little, added some contrast, some clarity (aka local contrast) and a little vibrance and saturation. For specific ones, I warmed up the white balance to being back the green colour in the trees, brought the shadows up for the mountains, tweaked the tone curve just a little for more contrast in the darks and added some saturation to the oranges and blues in the sky.

I then added a Grad filter to counteract the exposure changes in the sky that was waaay too bright and white at this point. This GND had -100 on highlights, and little contrast and saturation added to bring back the nice blue colour.

Hope this helps!

 

[JustJazzie]

Do you want it posted here? Or emailed to you?

 

[TWright33]

Do you want it posted here? Or emailed to you?

You can email me at [email protected]

 

[TWright33]

Hope this helps!

I'm going to assume you didn't mean to watermark this :mrgreen:

 

[JustJazzie]

Email sent Twright!

Hope this helps!

I'm going to assume you didn't mean to watermark this :mrgreen:

:Giggle: I didn't even notice.

 

[minicoop1985]

Don't worry about the tripod. Just work on your vertical leap and you should be fine. ISO 400 should net you a fast enough shutter to jump and get it.


In all srs bsns ns, I.... don't have anything to add because my thoughts have been covered.

 

[robbins.photo]

I mean the road is nice but it leads to nothing.

Thanks for chiming in. However, I was under the impression that the road was leading to the mountain. Perhaps a higher vantage point like another poster suggested would help make that more apparent.

Well it could be a road leading to Mount Nothing. Although I tihnk Mount Nothing is in Colorado somewhere...