How Would You Edit This Landscape Photo?

[verysimplejason]

Just my interpretation. Disclaimer: I didn't take this picture. Processed with DPP's HDR tool. If I were to take this picture, I'd be bringing a GND and/or take bracketed pictures so I can be sure the highlights aren't overblown. I'm having a slow internet connection thus I lowered down the resolution.

 

[christianronnel]

Processed in LR4. Played with tone curve to bring out the details. The scene seems not leveled to me so I distorted the image quite a bit.

 

[yablonsky]

Processed in Camera Raw 7.4. Not too much color added though. Just some adjustments to get rid of the haze.

 

[bycostello]

i wouldn't it is your photo and so your creativity and no one elses...

 

[GaryJ]

Having started in the 70's,I can only thank goodness for the ability to change the 'reality' that we have caputured,So much time has been spent in darkrooms that need now not happen,photography for me has always been my artform,some of us are not gifted with the ability to pick up a brush or a lump of clay to create their art,photography is after all'painting with light',having veiwed recently the touring Cartier-Bresson exhibit ,I believe that style of reportage picture making as well as modern photojournalism to be the only remaining styles with the constraints as you see them,as we will never see what another saw,even if viewing a print,what can be called photography

Looks like an old photographers vs. journalist(?) argument...

Perhaps that's a fair way to categorize my thoughts on photography - based more on journalism than creativity after the fact. To me, if I can't go and stand where you stood and see what you saw, it's not a photograph, it's something else. And there's nothing wrong with that - I'm not saying what people in this thread have is UGLY or undesirable, I'm just saying that they've crossed the line out of photography and into something else. Some rely so heavily on post processing to make something interesting that they should not call themselves photographers, but post processors. For me, photography is about capturing a moment. If you post process the bejeezus out of something, that moment is gone and something else has taken it's place. A fake moment, that never existed. And again, THAT'S OKAY - I'M NOT JUDGING THAT. I'm just saying that it's not really photography - it's a different form of art.

 

[calgaryphotos]

a couple more for fun

 

[csc]

Processed with Camera Raw 7.3. In addition to some basic adjustments (White balance, Contrast, etc.), some gradient filters were used.

 

[Yehyaalhafidh]

Here's my version! Edited in LR4

 

[Astral]

lightroom 3

cropped
wb 5000
ND filter on top adjusting exposure and contrast
exposure, contrast, tone curve adjustments
camera calibration portrait

forgot to remove dust spots :/

thanks for picture! editing was fun

 

[serendipidy]

I'll give it a try....processed in DPP.

 

[serendipidy]

Now for the "artistic" psychedelic interpretation

 

[Trevor]

Something simple ...

 

[Astral]

my second edit:
revised crop, revised exposure,second grad filter from the bottom,adjustments to clarity, dodging and burning and other brushwork. used photoshop to remove dustspots

 

[nda]

 

[distant.star]

a couple more for fun

I like the B & W. It has a lot of power to bring out the starkness. And I especially like the bluish cast over it. That's something I would have done had I thought of it. Should be simple in SilverEfex Pro.

 

[distant.star]

Now for the "artistic" psychedelic interpretation

What I like here is that intensity of color seems to begin erasing the line between earth and sky. Not entirely, but it makes that demarcation less certain -- almost like a mind altering experience. Disclaimer: I know nothing about art and less about drugs!

 

[Roger Jones]

Albumen Print

 

[Bruce Photography]

Albumen Print

+1. I like very much. Could you discuss your technique for this style of print?

 

[silvestography]

So I've never been one for the "vomit of colors everywhere" look, or the weird crops, but since this isn't my own image that I'm editing, I figured why not do something different? After messing around with the grad nd on the sky for a while, I just had to stick with the purple. Cheers.

 

[lehre]

Hi guys! i'm New! Awesome tread. Great image! love these kind of treads..



here's my take. Ended up a bit red-ish. LR4 all the way. (if it was mine i might have swapped the sky in PS


And a LR preset with all the settings-
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q3fsrccdbumljp1/CRlandscape.lrtemplate