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    When the flowering season for Canola and 'Riverina Blue-bell' coincide they make for an interesting colour contrast.

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    Johannes Glännman
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    Well done with that. I like the contrast with the two different colors and the line it makes is helping to add a big dept in the picture...

    I do think the light is quite hard and to bright. I suppose this was taken in the middle of the day ? I also miss a bit of sharpness in the FG.... I think with a smoother light and more sharpness in the FG it would bring out more details in the flowerfields..

    Cheers // Johannes

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    Hi John,
    I do like the contrast between the flowers. I'm not so sure of the cut trees although I do realize the difficulty in these type of compositions. A verticle comp without the tree line on the right (moving right a bit and aiming more left) and including the entire central tree may have achieved a strong sense of the color contrast while also improving the comp. Getting a little lower may also have separated the central tree into the sky more. An alternative would be to just focus on the 2 colors. You can see what i mean by scrolling to where the top of the frame just gets past the central tree trunk.......looks pretty cool! i think you have an area well worth exploring and a bit more dramatic lighting would help even more.

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    Very pleasant scene. One that makes me think of a nice bottle of wine with real wine glasses.

    This may have changed the feeling you were looking for, but here's another example of adding a Soft Light blend layer (45%) and a little boost in the saturation of the yellows and blues plus a little more sharpening.
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    You got some great suggestions already. I like Roman's comp idea. Here's a try at processing. I selected the brights (option+alt+~) and hit option+j to make that selection a new layer. Set that layer blend mode to multiply. I duplicated it, then repeated the option/alt/~ to select, now even a smaller area of the brightest brights. I then used that selection to make a mask for the duplicated layer. I then duplicated that.

    Now the image looks nice and muddy, so we brighten it up and hit it with a touch of contrast. Its a good way to tame harsh light.
    Hope that was able to be follwed. I can rewrite it later, but Im running to a party.

    Paul

    On looking at it the greens got a little out of control but it was a quick edit.

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    Cool Paul,

    I started doing almost the same thing yesterday and then my computer rebooted - who know why and never got back until know. Definite improvement in the highlights.

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    Hi Paul,

    I like the way you have intensified the colour and made this so much more powerful. I was hoping someone else would ask you to expand upon your description of what you have done and the thinking behind it - but seems I am the only one who got lost with the duplicated duplication...!

    Would you mind running it by one more time?

    Thanks,

    Gerald

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