This was taken in Yellowstone National Park. The sky was very cloudy, and very tricky to play with. This shot came from the under-exposure of a bracketed exposure. The Normal one was OK, but I found this one very appealing. The ground was illuminated by patches of sun light breaking through the clouds behind me. I hope this does well. It is by far more processed than I normally go with.
Post Processing:
1) Tweak the Curves, just a bit.
2) Dodging to bring up some of the bright areas of the photo.
3) Some more dodging in the sky.
4) boost the saturation to almost 25% (maybe a bit less than that).
5) Slight USM.
6) Save for Web.
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Sure looks exactly like the title says. The scene that is, not your photograph, lol. The branch coming in from the side doesn't work at all. A lower perspective where you could get those silhouetted, leafless trees more in front of that gloomy sky might also of been interesting.
a really nice shot but IMHO I would have cropped the top third of the sky and a bit of the foreground. I feel that the letter box format would have really balanced the image well. 8*
Very beautiful. Really amazing light, haunting landscape. I love the little line making up a light break in the clouds that points to the light on the ground. 10
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