Death Valley Curves

broby6

This is a shot I took in Death Valley, and a crop with some color tweaks. What do you think? Are the tweaks overdone?

broby6


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tweaked version (Sorry - got the wrong file for the tweaked version.

schmoo

Broby,

Not at all! IMO don't be afraid to get much more aggressive with your PP.

Arvan

nice indeed! much better then the untweaked one.

Ann McRae

Your PP is good - I do have a different crop suggestion for you - leave more of the left side of the image, and take some off the bottom. As well, I wonder if rotating about a degree clockwise would help.

Nice shot - Death Valley is really interesting.
ann

broby6

schmoo, Arvan and Ann, thanks for the comments.

Ann, thanks, I'll try your cropping suggestions. I noticed a yellow spot beyond the second curve and with a large zoom it turned out to be a road sign. Assuming the post is straight up and down the photo actually has the vertical correct (rare for me!). The decided slope to the left is due to a series of overlapping alluvial fans - material eroded from the mountains.

I'll work on some more Death Valley shots and try to get them posted.

broby6

Richard

broby6 wrote:

This is a shot I took in Death Valley, and a crop with some color tweaks. What do you think? Are the tweaks overdone?

The tweaks are fine. You could probably push it a little further still. I would try to brighten it up a bit and I agree with Ann's cropping suggestion. Maybe even try a panoramic crop?

Nice shot.

Regards,