The final color of Autumn C&C Welcomed

[KimC]

Thanks for your response Allan. Thanks for sharing your ideas. I have some new software, so I'll give it a go to see what i think (always like to try different things).

Kim I am going against the flow to crop out the sky, to me that is an easy simple fix. Myself, I added a GND filter (1.35 stops) in post from the top ending just above the trees in the far distance. Now a reflection on water is usually about 1-stop this darkened the sky so the reflection now looked brighter. Then overall I moved the highlights and shadows slider to the right which helped pop the trees, the shadows slider helped to bring out some detail in the trees to the left on the image. finally I added some clarity overall about +25 which again helped to pop the colours of the trees.
It is just me I hate taking the easy way out, by cropping some of the sky out those branches on the left really bother me, as they did not before when there was more sky.

Cheers: Allan

[KimC]

Thanks for commenting John.

I would agree with Allan that it does not need the crop. However, I do not think that it needs the PP he suggests. I think that the first image is good as it is.

John