This isn't a particularly creative entry, but I spent far too long editing it to not submit it. I'm hoping for a score in the upper 5s. I did a lot more editing with layers than I have for any of my other challenge entries, and I'm afraid that it shows a bit too much (there has to be an easier way of masking off the border between the trees and the sky than repeatedly using the magic wand to add to the selection). This image is a reasonable approximation of what I had envisioned; if I had the time to fool with it I'd like to have done some selective burning in the sky and in the trees to add some additional contrast. I also would have liked to add some image grain, but none of the noise filters that I tried produced the look I wanted.
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Burn layer masked for the sky
Burn layer masked for the foreground
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Seeing the road off to the left. I'd have positioned the camera so the sign on the right wasn't in the frame. It doesn't add to your message here. I also feel that the sky treatment may be a little too strong.
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