Taken on a hike near my house. In post-processing I did a lot to bring out the color. I used a variety of duplicate layers with different blending modes, most notably "multiply," which added a lot of contrast and color. I used separate levels adjustments for the sky, land, and water. I then burned in the edges and sky to "contain" the landscape, and applied sharpening. I also applied some slight NeatImage to the sky and water to remove some noise.
Hoping to do well...
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ouch my eyes! I think I have never seen so mush crisp collores ;) 10 P.s if I may try to improve this pic in my mind is that if one person would throwin stone in to the lake ;) Then it would be goregeus ;)
Lovely colors. I do feel that a bit of processing was done here to sharpen and soften some areas. Focus is spot on in some areas and a bit off in others. None the less, a (9) from me.