Overlook Mountain

[David DesRochers]

Took this shot the first weekend in June at Overlook Mountain in the Catskills. 40D on Gitzo tripod, ISO 200, 17 - 85 mm Lens at 28 mm, f 11 1/30 sec. two stop ND filter, mirror lock up.

[Fabs Forns]

Lovely sky and layers in the mountains. I believe it would benefit form a curves adjustment popping the midtones.
Thanks for sharing this one :)

[Robert Amoruso]

David,

I really love this. THe dark green trees in the FG, hazy trees in the BG and rich/subtle color in the sky and clouds. Agree with Fabs on the contrast but suggest Local Contrast Enhancement. See here for more info http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php?t=20434.

In the repost I used a USM setting of 20/50/0. You can mask the FG trees and clouds to reduce/eliminate the affect there and use opacity as well to affect strenght. Do on BG layer and then create a layer mask on it.

Going back and forth from a download to my computer, to PS and Save for Web and the upload amped up the saturation. You may want to do that.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Dave,
Nice flow and feel to with interesting play of light and shadow. I like Robert's contrast boost and will only add that I may have wanted a bit less FG gase and some more of the sky as it has more interest for me than the FG. Nicely exposed and nice use of the split too!

[David DesRochers]

Thank you everyone. Robert's edit really did the trick.