Still working on the images taken recently at Glacier N.P. and am having a tussle with this one. I should say that really I'm not even sure what I WANT to see with this guy, it's just that I'm not happy with the foliage on those aspens (I think they're aspens) ... I was really taken with the scene when I came upon it but now ... well, you know. I remember Frank mentioning a few days ago that multiple colors from a distance blend into mush; I'm not sure that's what's happening here because there aren't THAT many colors in those leaves. Anyway, not being happy with the leaves as is, I played with simplifying detail and then with enhancing it, finally settled on enhancing the detail. I did some gradients and curves and such too but the leaves ... aarrgh! Aside from that I thought about a tighter crop but I really like looking at the foreground grass too ... can't give it up.
Maybe I'm asking for more than the image has in it but I'm kind of invested in it at this point.
The raw file is here http://www.mediafire.com/?1gbtd5u946rpo6l. I don't know how to undo what I did to the raw file but I guess that can be done when it's accessed.
Any ideas are very appreciated.
Edit: Hmm, I just downloaded the raw file and remembered that I had made two edits in ACR and that's not the one I went with (I'm pretty sure ... )