Originally Posted by
ccphoto
I like it a lot but the artful dodger in me always wants to have a play with an image when I see a bit more black than I'd like - emphasis on "than I'd like," as it is always a matter of personal taste as opposed to pretty much anything else.
I put an Ultra Darks luminosity mask with a blend mode of "Screen" and found that the darks lightened a bit just bounced up the yellows and greens in the grasses and gave a tad more detail in the far horizon area... Just an idea. I only use ACR and Photoshop 7 so could not possibly tell you how to do it in any other program but I suspect others on here can.